Perhaps the sweet pea with the strongest fragrance ... and feeding young plants with a dilute liquid feed that is high in ...

Now the sweet pea, whose Latin name lathyrus odoratus means "delicate pleasures", has been rated Britain's best scented summer flower. Experts from Gardening Which? magazine compared the ...

But I love to walk out on a mild winter or spring day and catch the honey fragrance of sweet ... not have a fragrant cool-season flower garden without sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus).

Sweet pea fragrance varies among the varieties. Some of the modern hybrids aren’t as fragrant as the older and Spencer varieties. Rain, high temperatures, time of day and the age of the flower ...

Sweet peas have finished flowering for the summer, with many gardeners now focused on deadheading to prolong their display of dainty blooms. While you may have missed your chance to grow your own ...

Mammoth Choice’ is an early flowering, climbing sweet pea. The large, scented flowers in shades of lavender ... 15cm apart when they are about 10cm high. The climbing varieties can be pinched ...

The colourful blooms of sweet peas, held on long, straight stems, make perfect cut flowers. Plus, the more you pick them, the more buds form to make fresh flowers. Not all varieties have their famous ...

I picked a small bunch of sweet pea flowers from the garden today ... the white and violet variety “High Scent” bred by the renowned New Zealand breeder Dr Keith Hammett) or for the number ...