No summer garden is complete without sweet peas. With super-abundant, delicate flowers with a heavenly perfume, they are addictive to grow, not least for their cut-flower potential, filling our homes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beautiful English Cottage summer garden with rustic wooden pergola in soft sunshine - stock photo. Spring is undeniably the best ...

Do you love the smell and beautiful pastel colors of sweet peas in early spring? You can grow them yourself if you get started now. Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) require full sun, fertile soil and ...

Hold on - this is not the fragrant annual sweet pea flower you remember from home (I'll write about those gems in a future article). This plant is an evergreen shrub producing vibrant violet/purple ...

• Seeds for sweet peas and native California wildflowers should be planted in November to get the best blooms this spring. • Sweet peas have a delicate, unforgettable fragrance that has never been ...

Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) are sweet-smelling annuals with delicate, wing-shaped flowers and a slender stem. They are beautiful in cut-flower bouquets, gardens, or whimsically winding their way up ...

For as long as I can remember - which is usually about two minutes, the same as my attention span - I've heard that Good Friday is the traditional day for planting peas. That always struck me as being ...

There is not a specific date to plant sweet pea seeds as long as you plant them in the fall: anytime in October, November or by early December. Sweet pea seeds planted in October do as well as those ...

EVERY YEAR, RIGHT around Valentine’s Day, I begin soaking, sprouting and starting seeds, dreaming of the fragrant blossoms to come. This year, I’m tweaking my familiar garden ritual. Earlier this ...

Nothing makes scents like sweet peas. These climbing, vining legumes aren’t edible — they’re grown for their flowers, and when I say flowers, think armfuls of colorful, ambrosial bouquets, brightening ...

Question: When is the best time to plant sweet peas? What variety would you recommend? – Steve Conway, Modesto Answer: Sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus, with a wonderful fragrance, is an annual, and the ...