• 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 ...

With their delicious perfume and myriad of candy-like hues, sweet peas are undeniably one of the best early-summer bloomers. To grow them in your garden, you can either sow some seeds (a wider range ...

The glory of the sweet-pea bloom is behind her, but Glenys Johnson still loves autumn, perhaps most of all. As she pulls the dry pods from her spent vines and opens them to remove the seeds, she knows ...

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 ...

There is not a specific date to plant sweet pea seeds as long as you plant them in the fall: anytime in October, November or by early December. Sweet pea seeds planted in October do as well as those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A glass greenhouse is covered in snow in a yard - GenOMart/Shutterstock There are two types of gardeners: those who enjoy the ...

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 ...

Advanced Master Gardener Teri Bickmore says: Yes, you can save the seeds from you sweet pea flowers to plant next spring. Sweet peas come in both annual and perennial types. Since you want to save ...

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 ...

There are two types of gardeners: those who enjoy the slowness of winter and those who want to get back in the dirt as soon as possible. The truth is there are plenty of garden tasks to keep you busy ...