N o summer garden is complete without sweet peas. With super-abundant, delicate flowers with a heavenly perfume, they are ...

When your plant is producing fewer and fewer blooms, usually by late July or August, it is time to stop feeding. Once you have reached this stage, no amount of fertilizer can bring the plant back ...

The UK's recent soaring temperatures have put a strain on many popular garden plants used to milder climes - fortunately ...

Sweet pea will thrive in the garden if planted next to 1 tasty vegetable Sweet peas climb upwards, using little ground space, while the vegetable grows low to the ground with wide, leafy coverage.

You still have all of fall and winter to plant. Another classic, “California Garden Flowers” by E.J. Wickson (Pacific Rural Press)--this one from 1915--suggests planting early kinds in October ...

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 ...

"Sweet Pea Queen" Marryn Mathis, the owner of The Farmhouse Flower Farm, has written a beautiful new book to share her experiences growing the cherished annual.

Marryn Mathis, also known as the Sweet Pea Queen, shares tips on how to grow beautiful sweet peas in the Pacific Northwest.

If it's an intoxicating perfume you're after, there are still some flowers that will make your nose — and your heart — happy.

I picked a small bunch of sweet pea flowers from the garden today, snipping off their stiff, slim stems with a scissors and shaking the rain from their soft, ruffled petals before bringing them ...

Plenty of easy-to-grow flowers that bring energy and beauty to your garden are also completely edible.