Sowing sweet pea seeds in autumn offers gardeners some notable advantages. These annual flowering vines, Lathyrus odoratus, ...

Why grow sweet peas as a screen? Sweet peas need support and a screen is a great way of exploiting their natural growing habit while introducing height, colour and scent in one season. Create a ...

Sweet peas have a delicate, unforgettable fragrance that has never been successfully duplicated artificially. • They are easy ...

When I began gardening as an adult, every member of my family and every friend grew hordes of peas. Yet I struggled with it – ...

If you want your sweet peas to smell as good as they look, you need to pick the right ones. Some of the best options for strong fragrance are heirloom varieties like Matucana, Cupani, and Painted Lady ...

A few weeks ago the column was about cool season vegetables, I felt you needed a little more information about one of the ...

Plant your sweet peas, one per support. Toby used a highly scented old fashioned sweet pea called ‘Matucana’.

The good news is that it’s perfectly possible to home-save the seed and then use it to grow another generation of plants to fill your garden with fragrant blooms next year. Sweet pea flowers are ...

Why grow peas? Peas are such fun to grow - especially for children - and in 6-11 weeks you can experience the utter joy of wandering around your garden, munching on these sweet, juicy beauties ...