If you would like to enter sweet peas in the next Froggatt Show here are a few tips that will help improve your chances of success. Sweet peas are a popular choice for showing and the attention to detail when selecting blooms for display along with care transporting them will go a long way to helping you score well.
DO
- Select strong spikes with well spaced blooms
- Choose specimens with top blooms that are “well expanded” and the lower blooms fresh
- Flowers should be large and well-formed and free from spots and scorching
- Stage blooms with strong colours, without running and a silken sheen.
- Display long straight stems with lengths proportionate to flower size
DON’T
- Show fading blooms
- Stage stems with seed pods
- Select crooked or ill-proportioned stems
- Choose blooms that are small for your chosen cultivar
Exceeding maximum sizes could lead to your entry being disqualified or at least marked down.
Scoring
| Trueness of colour and freshness of blooms | 6 Points |
| Placement of bloom | 5 points |
| Size and form of bloom | 4 points |
| Stem proportionate to size of bloom | 3 points |
| Effectiveness of staging | 2 points |
| Total | 20 points |
These hints are derived from the RHS guidelines.