Jubilee Hanging Basket with Red, White and Blue Sweet Pea Seeds £3.71.

jonnyjackov

Thanks for the info.

Just had a reply after sending them an email.

They said it was posted to me on Friday.

Coincidence - we shall see!

hvd201

dazzer68 wrote: »

Blue? You cant get many blue flowers, and sweetpeas arent one of them, and the picture is of photoshopped impatients (busy lizzies) which you cant get in blue either. And busy lizzies arent being sold anywhere this year due to a high contagious plant disease

I bought, and received, busy lizzies this year from Thompson and Morgan. What is the disease and does it just affect busy lizzies? Thanks.

vicx

dazzer68 wrote: »

Blue? You cant get many blue flowers, and sweetpeas arent one of them, and the picture is of photoshopped impatients (busy lizzies) which you cant get in blue either. And busy lizzies arent being sold anywhere this year due to a high contagious plant disease

Funny that as I bought some from £stretcher a month or two ago and they are still for sale. Seen them in Wilko's recently too.

EndlessStruggle

The busy lizzies being sold are mostly New Guinea variety that are meant to be downy mildrew resistant, they are the ones being sold by Thompson and Morgan anyways. The ones in that pic are badly Photoshopped! You can see bits of yellow underneath,

dazzer68

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/17/busy-lizzies-mildew

vicx

dazzer68 wrote: »

Blue? You cant get many blue flowers, and sweetpeas arent one of them, and the picture is of photoshopped impatients (busy lizzies) which you cant get in blue either. And busy lizzies arent being sold anywhere this year due to a high contagious plant disease

You stated they aren't being sold anywhere this year but the article you posted above states:

Some suppliers – including B&Q, which normally sells about 20m of the plants a year – will not sell busy lizzies this year to help stocks recover.

Suttons Seeds, based in Paignton, Devon, said it would continue to provide the plants.

dazzer68 wrote: »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/17/busy-lizzies-mildew