While some are celebrating St Patrick's Day by wearing green and enjoying the craic and a Guinness at the pub, gardeners will ...

Sweet peas are annual climbers with unbeatable fragrance. Discover our best sweet pea varieties and tips for how to grow them ...

Sweet pea seeds are some of the easiest seeds to harvest and grow, providing you and your backyard with years of color and perfume - and all for free. Over the centuries, they have become one of ...

Sweet peas add a pop of colour to any garden - and Monty Don has reminded gardeners of the best time to begin growing them ...

If you want to see big blooms over the summer, now's the time to start sowing the right type of flowers for a vibrant summer ...

There are many varieties available but go for the pack of seeds that states they are strongly or very fragrant ...

The middle of March is the time to start growing cool season crops such as peas, sweet peas, lettuce, radishes, cabbage, kale ...

Few flowers are as nostalgic and charming as ornamental sweet peas, Lathyrus odoratus. Their delicate petals, ruffled blooms, and intoxicating fragrance evoke memories of cottage gardens, ...

It's best to sow the seeds in October for planting the following spring, but you can also sow in spring. Sweet peas are annuals which are raised from seed to flower the same summer and then die. There ...

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.

Sow seeds in a cold frame in autumn or straight into the ground in spring, and you'll be eating sweet, tender peas straight from the pod all through the summer months. Peas come in two varieties ...

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 ...