• 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 ...

Growing sweet peas from seed is rewarding and relatively straightforward, but as with most things, problems can sometimes arise. These range from leggy, weak growth to interloping pests, and such ...

If you are itching to dust the snow off the garden and get some seeds in, peas are the salvation you’re looking for. I’ve extolled the power of peas before, but I barely scratched the surface on their ...

Each day as I enjoyed the small bouquet on the kitchen table, I grew more and more determined that I would ask Davis how he grew them. As it turns out, he has been growing sweet peas (or has been ...

Last week, I mentioned pansies, cyclamen, primula, stocks and sweet peas, but now let's discuss growing them in more detail. Pansies are the most popular cool weather annual. They are low-growing ...