Roger Parsons Sweet Peas

04/04/2025

A Fond Farewell & New Beginnings

After 20 wonderful years of trading, it’s time for me to say goodbye as I retire and close the doors of Roger Parsons Sweet Peas. I want to take this moment to thank all my loyal customers who have supported me throughout the years – your trust and love for sweet peas have made this journey incredibly special!

Though this chapter is closing, my passion for sweet peas continues! I’m thrilled to be working in collaboration with English Sweet Peas and I will still be actively breeding new sweet peas varieties. I look forward to having a bit more time for showing sweet peas too.

I’m excited for the future as we work together in this new venture, and I strongly encourage all of you to continue supporting English Sweet Peas for your sweet pea seeds.

Thank you again for being part of this amazing journey. Here’s to new beginnings!

This will be my last social media post to this page but do follow English Sweet Peas for future updates!

03/02/2025

‼️ BIG NEWS ‼️
We are thrilled to announce that we are joining forces with English Sweet Peas.

As I look to step back from my retail business and National Collection responsibilities, Phil Johnson at English Sweet Peas has negotiated the purchase of my business and the transition of the National Collection.

We see this very much as a coming together of the businesses as there is great synergy between the two. So, a continuation of business as usual rather than a takeover.

I will continue my breeding work and join English Sweet Peas as an advisor.

You will be pleased to know that Fran, my daughter has agreed to take on a significant role with English Sweet Peas, so you will still be available to call for help and advice.

Phil has said ‘Roger Parson’s contribution to the world of Sweet Peas has been immense, a recognised global authority on the subject. We hope to continue and develop Roger’s work.’

Exciting times in the world of Sweet Peas!

Look out for more announcements in the coming weeks

Photo credit: Caroline Ball

25/11/2024

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!
So our full range of Christmas gifts are available from our website now! There are gifts to suit all budgets. From vouchers that can be redeemed at a later date to Roger’s fabulous monograph combined with seeds. All come in festive packaging.

31/10/2024

The 2nd of our 2025 Novelties to be released is ‘Ada Marie’. I am sure you will agree that it is an extremely beautiful and unusual colour for an early flowering variety. It has Spencer flower form and excellent scent with well placed blooms on long stems. The midnight blue flowers against the dark green foliage is really quite stunning.

Named by Marryn Mathis after her much loved Grandma.

Buy seed here: https://www.rpsweetpeas.com/product/ada-marie/

24/10/2024

** NEW VARIETY * *
We are excited to announce the first of six new varieties. This is ‘Beverly Ann’, an absolutely prolific flowering pale blue. It boasts long stems with large, well placed spencer flowers. This variety is early flowering so perfect for cut flower growers and we expect this variety to be very popular!

Named by Marryn Mathis after her much loved Grandmother.

https://www.rpsweetpeas.com/product/beverly-ann/

03/10/2024

The ‘Sunshine’ series are a popular series of early flowering multiflora Spencer types. Featuring long stems with 5 or more filly flowers. They are ideal for cut flower production as well as being lovely for the house. We currently have available:
Sunshine Opal
Sunshine Pink Bicolour
Sunshine Lavender
Sunshine Deep Rose

27/09/2024

Historically this is one of our most popular sellers, Gwendoline. It is popular for good reason. Always reliable, excellent colour and flower placement with matching excellent strong scent. Very successful on the show bench too. New season seed available now so don’t miss out on this beautiful variety.

09/09/2024

Website Shop Temporarily Close

Due to unprecedented numbers of online orders, we are temporarily closing our online shop.

If you would like to place an order, please come back on Monday 16th September when we will reopen the online shop. If you have already placed an order, we are working hard on the back log and will get your order dispatched as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your continued support and patience.

04/09/2024

Sorry we’ve been a bit quiet for a few weeks. We have now officially finished the 2024 seed harvest and inventory has been updated on our website.

New season seed include some fantastic varieties such as Blue Shift, John Gray, Gilly Norah, Almost Black, Scarlet Flake plus many many more!

We have limited availability of King’s Ransom, MM and Blue Vein. Please email for price and quantity.

Happy sowing for the upcoming season!

27/08/2024

There is currently a problem with gaining access to our website. We are sorry for the inconvenience and will try it get it rectified in the morning.

05/08/2024

Our 2024-25 catalogue is hot off the press and making its way to our UK customers. This year the front cover features Ruby holding her Sweet Pea Ruby’s Gown, a 2024 novelty.

Another novelty to note is our limited edition ‘Seamist Mixture’ in celebration of our 20 years in retail. The mixture includes a balanced colour combination of blues, lavenders, whites and creams in all flower forms.

Our catalogue is automatically sent to all UK customers who have purchased from us in the last 2 years. Unfortunately it is not possible to send a hard copy to our international customers but we can email a copy if you would like to see it. Please request by emailing [email protected]

30/06/2024

Had a visit recently from Milli Proust and Paris Alma of Alma Proust. There is an illustrated blog of the visit at

By mid-June, the garden has become a midsummer tangle; it's all sweet pea tendrils and rose petals here. The sweet peas grow daily, stretching and weaving their way up the netting and sticks we put up for them many months ago, and then we start to pick... Nothing is sweeter than a handful, armful, b

25/06/2024

☀️ Sweet Peas in the heat! ☀️
The UK is experiencing some warm temperatures this week so here are a few tips to help your Sweet Peas cope…

* Shade your plants during the hottest part of the day. If outdoors, the best solution is to plan in advance where to grow your peas. Pick a spot to ensure they have shade from a tree or other object. If no shade is available a large portable outdoor umbrella or similar would suffice.

* keep air moving, ventilation is key so open up your poly tunnel or greenhouse as much as possible. It is possible to use a fan to move air if it is very still.

* water in the morning to try to keep roots as cool as possible

* potentially increase your watering to twice a day (morning and evening) Sweet Peas are prolific drinkers!

* Dampen down surrounding soil to try to increase humidity. This will reduce the chance of your plants contracting powdery mildew which thrives in hot, dry conditions