If you are a member of the RHSI and/or its Affiliated Societies/Clubs and have not exhibited in any Class for Sweet Pea since 2007, you are eligible. That means you can apply for a Starter Pack through a participating Affiliated Society or as an individual. As an individual you can complete the application form on line or by post, and upon receipt of €3 we will send a Starter Pack direct to you.

All Societies and Clubs affiliated to the RHSI are invited to participate in this project by including Starters’ Classes in their 2012 show schedule.  The RHSI and Affiliates can obtain parcels of 3 or more Starter Packs that include 25 top quality Sweet Pea seed at €1 per Pack for their eligible members who ask for them.

Each Starter Pack will contain five seeds of each of five award-winning Sweet Pea varieties that have been bred in Ireland and chosen for this project to give you a wide range of colours that look well together.  Your Pack will also contain five plant-labels and two cards that you can use to identify your exhibits in the shows.  Completing the Pack will be advice on growing and exhibiting, kindly provided by ex-Chairman of RHSI John Markham.

Participating RHSI Affiliates will include two Starter’s Classes in the schedule for their Summer 2012 Show, as will the schedule for the 2012 RHSI Display at Marley Park.  These Classes will be confined to growers who have received the project Starter Pack. One Class will be for a vase containing one stem.  The second Class will be for a vase containing six stems, which may be mixed.

Cooltonagh will make up and post the Starter Packs only during the seed-sowing months of September, October, January to March.  Applications that include e-mail addresses will be acknowledged by e-mail within three days.

Cooltonagh Irish Sweet Peas has joined forces with the  RHSI in a project to start people growing and showing Sweet Pea.