• 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 ...

Keen to get a head start on the gardening year? Here's everything you need to know about sowing sweet peas in January ...

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 ...

Fragrant sweet peas are cool-season annuals whose seeds, like those of alyssum, larkspur, pansies, bachelor’s buttons and calendula, can be sown directly in rich garden soil once it has thawed and ...

Sweet peas are some of the most fragrant cut flowers to bloom in summer. Not only do their wide range of vibrant and pastel hues make for stunning arrangements, but their foliage and wispy tendrils ...

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 ...

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 ...

In summer, dusty Washington roadsides are often brightened with rosy sweet peas. A reader wants to know if the roadside sweet peas are garden escapees, and if they’d have stronger scent if grown in ...

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 ...

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!