The plant propagates easily from seed and is known by a variety of common names such as perennial sweet pea, Brede Lathrys broadleaf pea, everlasting sweet pea, pea vine, and wild sweet pea.

Visitors tend to like 'Matucana', similar to the wild form with old-fashioned colour and scent, but a more garden-worthy plant. The commercial sweet-pea season - cut flowers grown under glass - is ...