Sweet Pea

sweet pea is an absolutley georgeous plant for your garden during summer, the name is a bit miss leading as this plant doesnt produce peas at all but does produce the most beautiful smell in your garden. These come in a vast array of colours so look beautiful as there are so many different colours together and this plant can be put absolutley anywhere, it is a climbing plant so you can get it to trail up trellising on your fencing which can get to about 8 foot tall and looks absolutley beautiful or you can use it as a trailing plant to come down from your container tubs or hanging baskets so is suitable for any garden from the very small to the very ...  Read the complete review

I always find Sweet Pea a welcome garden plant with an overpowering fragrance that can fill a summer afternoon. Sweet Pea is a climbing plant that must be trained along rods of bamboo or some form of netting or chord. The plants produce tendrils that will entwine around these climbing frames. They will generally flower in abundance from July to September in colours that vary towards reds and purples with many shades of pink, orange and violet. Unlike most plants, Sweet Peas are hermaphrodites in that they possesses both male and female organs on flowers of the same plant so they can be pollinated by insects visiting a single plant. New seeds can ...  Read the complete review

Colour, texture and scent are all important elements of a well designed garden. A mish-mash of plants that are chosen without any particular scheme in mind and thrown into the ground in any old spot will rarely work. Sure, they may bloom but you probably won?t be getting the best from your garden. Our back garden is based on plenty of foliage for texture and cool pastels to add splashes of colour so sweet peas, latin name Lathyrus, fit in perfectly. They?re very easy to grow and look lovely winding their way up a wigwam of bamboo canes in a pot or through a trellis along with clematis or other permanent climbers. Sweet peas ...  Read the complete review

Now that the sun has started to shine I am spending a lot more time in my garden. I love strongly scented, colourful plants and for me the sweet pea is one of the best! Sweet peas are easy to grow, provide lots of colour and have the most gorgeous fragrant flowers imaginable. How to grow. ************ It is possible to buy established plants but I always grow sweet peas from seed, as it is very easy to do. Seeds are widely available and can be sown from late autumn onwards. I usually sow my sweet pea seeds in about February. My children really enjoy helping to sow the seeds too. I use several deep plastic pots filled with a good potting compost, ...  Read the complete review

A Sweet Pea is a highly scented annual and has to be one my my all time favourite flowers. Although you can buy the seed and raise your own plants in the greenhouse, which I did last year, most of us prefer to buy the plants from our local garden centre. The Sweet pea starts life as a small thin straggly plant, it may look very puny but in reality it is an exceptionally resilient little plant. Sweetpeas love being planted where they will be in the sun and last year during March I planted mine at the bottom of the garden along the bottom of the fence. The results were spectacular, the spindly plants soon gained strength and started to take hold. We made a good ...  Read the complete review