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• 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 sweet fragrance and delicate blooms, sweet peas are sure to delight. So plant a row of sweet peas this spring to fill your garden with scent and your heart with whimsy.

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 ...

A summer filled with sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) may be just a dream in November, but you can start to make your dreams come true for next summer by planting seeds now. The combination of our mild ...

My grandmother grew pink sweet peas to cover tattered tar paper siding on a shed in her tiny garden on the east side of Buffalo. I remember my sister and me picking the flowers and seed pods for ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year’s not-so-superbloom of wildflowers in San Luis Obispo County may have peaked in most places, but not so along Highway 46 West this week. Many of the road-cut hillsides from Green Valley Road ...

CORVALLIS – Sweet peas are a classic flower in English gardens since they were introduced in the 17th century from southern Italy and have transplanted well to all parts of the world, including ...

I ADORE SWEET PEAS. Their history — the first sweet pea is credited to a 17th-century Sicilian monk. The romance — the delicate blooms are totally swoon-worthy. But most of all, their fragrance!

While some celebrate St Patrick's Day by wearing green and enjoying the craic and a Guinness at the pub, gardeners will be getting dirty sowing one specific bloom. Tradition states that sowing sweet ...