Unwins, a brand of Westland Horticulture

William Unwin sold his first sweet pea seeds.  However, the story starts two years earlier, in the summer of 1901.  One evening, after choir practice, he was showing two fellow choristers round the many rows of sweet peas he grew to send to the flower markets in London. William was soon hybridising sweet peas, and offering large flowered forms in a wide range of colours.  By 1914 he had been joined in the business by his son Charles, who went on to become one of the leading sweet pea breeders of the 20th Century.