The fifth of November might be all about rockets, sparklers and Roman candles for some, but it’s also the perfect day to sow ...

Hold on - this is not the fragrant annual sweet pea flower you remember from home (I'll write about those gems in a future article). This plant is an evergreen shrub producing vibrant violet/purple ...

It may not always bloom profusely, but sweet pea shrub, Polygala fruticosa, blooms sporadically through most of the year. Even when not much color is evident from a distance, a few flowers can likely ...

20:33, Mon, Apr 27, 2020 Updated: 20:43, Mon, Apr 27, 2020 Sweet peas make for great garden flowers and look beautiful in bouquets. The flowering plant comes in a flurry of colours and has a lovely ...

Hauntingly beautiful, intensely perfumed, floriferous, colourful and surprisingly easy to grow, sweet pea has few rivals among flowering plants for my affections. No summer garden is truly complete ...

The colourful blooms of sweet peas, held on long, straight stems, make perfect cut flowers. Plus, the more you pick them, the more buds form to make fresh flowers. Not all varieties have their famous ...

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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 ...

I have a perennial sweet pea on my balcony – it’s in a pot and in a sunny spot with sun from 4pm onwards. I have got some blooms from it this summer. However, the bottom of the plant looks very ...

10:07, Sun, Jun 8, 2025 Updated: 10:10, Sun, Jun 8, 2025 Companion planting is a popular gardening technique where different crops are grown side by side to help each other thrive. Some plants can ...

See how a snap pea plant growing from a seed to harvesting pods in this 60 days time-lapse. The pea seed was sowed in a pot ...

Sweet Pea Plant-Based Kitchen got its start in Rochester, when Classical French Trained Chef, Ryan Jennings, along with Co-Founder, Mike Linehan set out to create a plant-based meal program for people ...