Ursula Cholmeley, who has spent 25 years restoring Easton Walled Gardens, recommends sowing sweet peas now for stronger ...

Autumn light fades, but a tray of seeds can still set a bright promise. A tiny October ritual brings long months of scent.

Gardening expert Monty Don returned for another instalment of the hit BBC Two show, Gardener’s World on Friday. The lead host of the programme said gardeners should sow sweet peas now as well as prune ...

Grey skies and shorter days don’t stop gardeners planning bold spring colour. One simple October task sets the stage.

Sweet peas are annuals, which mean they germinate, grow, flower, set seed and die all in one year meaning they have to be re-grown each year. They are long-flowering and provide plenty of colour, ...

For as long as I can remember - which is usually about two minutes, the same as my attention span - I've heard that Good Friday is the traditional day for planting peas. That always struck me as being ...

Spring is undeniably the best time of the year to dust off your gardening equipment and get to planting. And while you can stick to tending to your green hedges, your flourishing veggie patch, and ...

A cool-weather annual, sweet peas actually like the Northwest's infamous cool springs and begin to fade as the hot weather comes on strong in July. Even though seed packets and available literature ...

Cutting sweet peas for the house is one of my favourite things and they are easy to grow, even for children. This year Mr Fothergill’s has chosen 2013 as the Year of the Sweet Pea. It will be holding ...

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 ...

In 1699, Sicilian monk Franciscus Cupani sent seeds of a local wild sweet pea to his friend, English schoolmaster Robert Uvedale. It was the beginning of a love affair between gardeners and sweet peas ...