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 ...

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Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Rain, thunder and lightning kept most of the contestants in this year's Sweet Pea Flower Show ...

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 ...

Sweet peas are easy-to-grow, hardy annuals. If you live in USDA Zone 7 or warmer, plant them outdoors in late fall. Elsewhere, plant them from late winter to very early spring. The seedlings can ...

Sweet peas flower in vibrant shades of blue and purple, right down to the palest pink, making them a beautiful way to add some colour to your garden during the summer months. However, if you are ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Joanie Petersen's favorite flower is a sweet pea. Every year she reserves at least one of her 32 ...

Sweet peas may be small-ish in size — compared to the roses and dahlias and other big-headed blossoms, that is — but they go huge, really huge, in the fancily frilly department. Stream Los Angeles ...

We'll guess that many people might answer such a question with "a sweet pea smells like a sweet pea," and anyone querying on the topic would need to be satisfied with the somewhat opaque but totally ...

CORVALLIS – Sweet peas are a classic flower in English gardens since they were introduced in the 17th century from southern Italy and have transplanted well to all parts of the world, including ...

There are two types of gardeners: those who enjoy the slowness of winter and those who want to get back in the dirt as soon as possible. The truth is there are plenty of garden tasks to keep you busy ...

In 1699 a monk in Italy called Franciscus Cupani sent seeds of Lathyrus odoratus to a Dr Uvedale, of Enfield in Middlesex. This was the first recorded instance of a sweet pea being grown in this ...