Do you love the smell and beautiful pastel colors of sweet peas in early spring? You can grow them yourself if you get ...

With their delicious perfume and myriad of candy-like hues, sweet peas are undeniably one of the best early-summer bloomers. To grow them in your garden, you can either sow some seeds (a wider range ...

You might say daughter-in-law Dawn Meredith Peck has the uncommon sense in this family. Or, at least, an uncommon sense of scent, a pursuit of floral fragrance which has driven her to write three ...

Nothing makes scents like sweet peas. These climbing, vining legumes aren’t edible — they’re grown for their flowers, and when I say flowers, think armfuls of colorful, ambrosial bouquets, brightening ...

As soon as outdoor temperatures rise, bees are on the hunt for flowers. To satisfy the pollinators, grow this sweet-smelling ...

Myths and legends surround the sowing and growing of sweet peas. Many were first spun when showing sweet pea blooms was almost a competitive sport in England, with gardeners fiercely competing for ...

My grandmother grew pink sweet peas to cover tattered tar paper siding on a shed in her tiny garden on the east side of Buffalo. I remember my sister and me picking the flowers and seed pods for ...

When I think of sweet peas, I think of Renee Shepherd. Owner of the specialty seed company Renee’s Garden (www.reneesgarden.com), based in Felton, Calif., Renee has been championing sweet peas for ...