Q: Thanks for answering my tomato questions. What is the best way to start poppy seeds and sweet peas indoor for planting outside? I tried last year and had a hard time. I love poppies and sweet peas.

• 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 ...

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 ...

Do you love the smell and beautiful pastel colors of sweet peas in early spring? You can grow them yourself if you get started now. Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) require full sun, fertile soil and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I can’t remember exactly who or what first drew me to growing sweet peas—it might have been the great ...

Sweet peas are amongst the most adored garden blooms. Floriferous, gloriously fragrant and available in a dazzling array of ...

You might say daughter-in-law Dawn Meredith Peck has the uncommon sense in this family. Or, at least, an uncommon sense of scent, a pursuit of floral fragrance which has driven her to write three ...

One of my favorite things to do on a family road trip is to slow down and take in whatever town we are passing through. Often I spy wild purple peas climbing a rickety fence at a house or two, or ...

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 ...

Q: I’ve tried growing sweet pea flowers, but by the middle of summer the vines turn brown and begin to die before many flowers are produced. Do you have any idea what’s wrong? I love the fragrance of ...

Spring is undeniably the best time of the year to dust off your gardening equipment and get to planting. And while you can stick to tending to your green hedges, your flourishing veggie patch, and ...