• 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 are a cut flower you’ll never find at your local florist or grocery store flower department. They’re just too delicate to ship and handle. They are, however, a very easy flower to grow at ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- I've been threatening everyone with Gulf Coast sweet peas for 15 years now. In my early years as a garden writer, I’d have to say that sweet pea anguish was almost as pervasive as ...

With their delicious perfume and myriad of candy-like hues, sweet peas are undeniably one of the best early-summer bloomers. To grow them in your garden, you can either sow some seeds (a wider range ...

My grandmother grew pink sweet peas to cover tattered tar paper siding on a shed in her tiny garden on the east side of Buffalo. I remember my sister and me picking the flowers and seed pods for ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year’s not-so-superbloom of wildflowers in San Luis Obispo County may have peaked in most places, but not so along Highway 46 West this week. Many of the road-cut hillsides from Green Valley Road ...

Peas are generally ready to harvest 60 days after planting. With the right indoor conditions, this can happen anytime of year ...

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I ADORE SWEET PEAS. Their history — the first sweet pea is credited to a 17th-century Sicilian monk. The romance — the delicate blooms are totally swoon-worthy. But most of all, their fragrance!