KERTON SWEET PEAS

"Some men have countries and mountains named after them but I'm happy with my sweet pea"  Sir Max Hastings   -  Daily Mail click for link

Dear Sweet Pea Growers

Welcome to our list of familiar and some new sweet peas.  The seed we send you will be ready for sowing in the next weeks or months and you will enjoy the flowers in 2009. 

This year we are proud to offer five novelties for 2009:

• Charlotte Emma
  
• Mrs R Chisholm
  
• Our Colin
  
• Rory K
  
• Sir Max Hastings   
  

Phil & Joyce Kerton

Kerton Sweet Peas is situated at North Farm, Pawlett, near Bridgwater, and was established 20 years ago by Phil and Joyce Kerton, when Wilf Walker, a local man  (who sadly died in 2002) asked them to grow a heady fragrant, lavender-coloured sweet pea called Marion, (named after his mother), that none of the other nurseries wanted to grow, although it had won the Clay Cup at the National Sweet Pea Society Show.

Phil and Joyce began with four rows of these fragrant, frilly flowers and now they grow around 50 varieties (some named after various people, some of which have a sad story behind them), on the two acres of land, which originally belonged to Joyce's grandfather.

If you're passing Kerton Sweet Peas in the summer months, where you might see Joyce working in the fields, there will be bunches of these colourful, fragrant flowers for sale outside the gate.