Our top 5 tips for collecting and storing sweet pea seeds will guarantee floral scent and color for years to come ...

Sweet pea plants require frequent irrigation. Nasturtium plants (Tropaeolem majus) are also offered as bush or vining types with aromataic single or double flowers in a range of colors.

Sweet pea blossoms (Getty Images) Cool nights and cool days bring out both the colors and the fragrances of sweat pea flowers. With all my talk about global warming and impacts on how we garden ...

Colors burst out of glass vases on the tables under the white tent. Pinks, purples, whites, reds. Some of these flowers are for sale, but others were fighting for first ...

Sweet pea flowers naturally self-pollinate while still in bud, and it would seem that their color and perfume are there to please the gardener more than the bee.

And there shall be more sweet pea prettiness still to come, when the cultivated flower fields around Lompoc begin to burst with color and fragrance, usually around April or May.

Here’s sweet pea 101: Most Read Stories. ... but not as wide a choice of colors and kinds as available by seed. • Provide sturdy support for the vines to climb, ...

Their combined offspring are what make the selection of sweet-pea seeds so varied today. ... Bush types such as Knee-Hi and Bijou can be all over the place in scent, colors and form.