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 ...

Sweet peas need not be a mere June fling, an early-season flurry of fragrance and flower that dies away as summer heats up. With a few tricks and not all that much devotion, you can keep these frilly ...

Hold on - this is not the fragrant annual sweet pea flower you remember from home (I'll write about those gems in a future article). This plant is an evergreen shrub producing vibrant violet/purple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sweet peas are a perfect summer plant that are available in a plethora of colours. They’re known for their sweet scent and stunning displays. Often, sweet peas are trained to go up frames, fences and ...

Sweet pea seedlings tend to sprout between March and May, marking the beginning of beautiful summer blooms. These delicate flowers are popular in English gardens thanks to their wide variety of ...