The delicate beauty of Sweet Peas

This symbol of bliss with petite airy blooms are a wonderful floral choice for any arrangement that needs the perfect soft touch of elegance and charm.  Meaning delicate or blissful pleasure in the language of flowers, this enchanting flower remains a favorite fragrant blossom.

Although we can trace sweet peas all the way back to the 17th century, the blooms we know today are to be accredited to a Scottish nurseryman named Harry Eckfort who cross-pollinated the original flower creating the ornamental scented and colorful blooms we have grown to love so deeply.

His varieties included the pink Dorothy Eckford, the lavender Lady Grisel Hamilton, the scarlet King Edward VII and perhaps his most famous, the Countess Spencer.

While I would probably say that sweet peas add a delicate touch of elegance to any arrangements I would definitely not pair it with lilies . Oriental lilies are very pretty but their scent is so overpowering it will drown out the delicate fragrance of sweet peas.

If you chose to pair sweet peas with any other fragrant blooms I would suggest something more subtle like a Keira garden rose and even freesia.

This arrangement is called “Elegance” and features roses, garden roses, blush Dutch tulips and Dutch sweet peas and can be purchased HERE: