THERE’S few things more lovely than a sweetpea in bloom. Especially if they’re filled with fragrance and happily climbing ...

Get a head start on a colorful garden this summer by sowing these vivid plants in early spring. These flowers will give your ...

Sweet peas are a crowd favourite, signalling that summertime has finally arrived with their beautiful and delicate blooms. Although we're still in spring, there's a little lesser-known gardening ...

It is good for training along a wire fence, trellis, or up an obelisk as the stems grow 1.5 to 1.8 m in length so support is required. Nectar rich bedding sweetpeas. Sweet pea Bijou Mixed is a ...

Why grow sweet peas as a screen? Sweet peas need support and a screen is a great way of exploiting their natural growing habit while introducing height, colour and scent in one season. Create a ...

The middle of March is the time to start growing cool season crops such as peas, sweet peas, lettuce, radishes, cabbage, kale ...

Sweet peas are annuals which are raised from seed to flower the same summer and then die. There is a perennial cousin called Lathyrus latifolius, which has pink or white flowers, but unfortunately ...

The great news is that this is the best time of year to start planting many different types of plants, including beautiful flowers like sweet peas. Growing your own plants comes with a myriad of ...

Sow seeds in a cold frame in autumn or straight into the ground in spring, and you'll be eating sweet, tender peas straight from ... ensuring there's enough space for plant supports.

Now in her beautiful new book, “Sweet Pea School: Growing and Arranging the Garden’s Most Romantic Blooms” (Chronicle, 2025), the newly minted author shares her experience growing the ...