• 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SO MANY things today ain’t what they used to be. This is not, however, the case with sweet peas. Step into any garden where sweet peas are climbing up a fence and you are instantly transported back to ...

Growing sweet peas is a worthwhile investment, as a flower farmer once told me that sweet peas were her fastest-selling flowers at market. Their success was down to their scent - it’s deeply nostalgic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...