'In Northern California where I live I start most of my sweet pea seeds in the fall,' continues Glenys. ... 'This is a modern grandiflora variety that produce masses of dark pink and purple blooms.

The UK's recent soaring temperatures have put a strain on many popular garden plants used to milder climes - fortunately ...

Let annuals go to seed in the fall, says Brooke Edmunds, ... Let sunflowers, sweet peas and other annuals go to seed: Gardening basics. Updated: Sep. 09, 2014, 1:16 p.m.

Plant sweet peas to bloom in spring, tra la Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) ...

Often I spy wild purple peas climbing a rickety fence at a house or two, or sometimes at a graveyard. ... Tradition has taught us to soak our sweet-pea seeds overnight before planting.

Sweet peas are one of those quintessentially English garden plants that abhor warm summers, and despise summer on the Gulf Coast. In spite of that, many distressed Southern gardeners remembered ...

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 ...

Color lithograph from a seed catalogue promoting "Superb Collection of Sweet Peas” by William Elliott & Sons. The illustration depicts a bouquet of red, white, yellow, orange, pink, and purple ...

Sweet peas are desirable to grow in your landscape because they have beautiful flowers that attract attention in the flower garden with blooms in both their basic, bold colors (red, white, purple ...