• 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 ...

Some of my best memories from childhood are of sneaking into my mom’s garden to gorge myself on sweet peas. As I now watch my own children doing the same thing, I smile secretly to myself as it occurs ...

In 1699, Sicilian monk Franciscus Cupani sent seeds of a local wild sweet pea to his friend, English schoolmaster Robert Uvedale. It was the beginning of a love affair between gardeners and sweet peas ...

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 ...

I picked a small bunch of sweet pea flowers from the garden today, snipping off their stiff, slim stems with a scissors and shaking the rain from their soft, ruffled petals before bringing them ...