Sweet peas have long roots and even with large 15-gallon containers — plus an inverted tomato cage with tines lathed together at the top to form a makeshift obelisk — they didn't grow well.

A: Sweet pea fragrance varies among the varieties. Some of the modern hybrids aren’t as fragrant as the older and Spencer varieties. Rain, high temperatures, time of day and the age of the ...

Sweet peas have an irresistible perfume and every winter garden should have these wonderful scented, free flowering varieties. If sown this month, sweet peas should start coming into flower in June.

There's nothing quite as fragrant as sweet peas. You can make this lovely English garden-type scene a reality in your yard, but you need to act now, because fall is prime time for planting this ...

The plum-coloured sweet pea ‘Monty Don’ is a grandiflora. ‘Cupani’, ‘Painted Lady’ and another bicolour, ‘Matucana’, are the best sweet peas of all for fragrance.

The fragrance is not easily described, “but it is unforgettable,” said Glenys Johnson, who’s been been growing and selling seeds for the English Spencer variety of sweet peas through her ...

Sweet pea fragrance is light in some cultivars, such as the cherry-red 'Lipstick,' and delightfully enticing in others, including 'April in Paris,' which has creamy flowers blushed with a lilac tint.

Sweet peas are one of those quintessentially English garden plants that abhor warm summers, and despise summer on the Gulf Coast. In spite of that, many distressed Southern gardeners remembered ...

Sweet peas don't enjoy the popularity they did many years ago. That's too bad as they offer casual and experienced gardeners color, fragrance and versatility throughout the summer and into early ...

The lightest whiff of sweet pea fragrance takes me straight back to childhood. My dad grew sweet peas every year, so from June to September there were full vases in the house.

I can’t cut them fast enough, and have vases of them in every room of the house, so the whole place smells like I’m piping sweet pea fragrance in through the heat vents.