A SweetPea is a highly scented annual and has to be one my my all time favourite flowers. Although you can buy the seed and raise your own plants in the greenhouse, which I did last year, most of us prefer to buy the plants from our local garden centre.
The Sweetpea starts life as a small thin straggly plant, it may look very puny but in reality it is an exceptionally resilient little plant.
Sweetpeas love being planted where they will be in the sun and last year during March I planted mine at the bottom of the garden along the bottom of the fence. The results were spectacular, the spindly plants soon gained strength and started to take hold. We made a good framework out of bamboo canes and garden twine for them to climb. As the plants start to grow make sure that you encourage them to twine up along and through the twine and Sweet ...
Advantages: Fragrances the house Disadvantages: Don't last long as a cut flower
What reminds you of summer? For me one of the things that reminds me of summer are the flowers in the garden, the perfume that lingers on the air as the long days turn to dusk and a velvety night falls.
I do like to be outside in the evenings watching the sun go down and the moon, sometimes a huge golden globe in the sky rise, to light the garden with little pools of brightness in the dark.
One of the scents of summer for me is the very sweet perfume of SweetPeas, or Lathyrus odoratus, to give them their proper name.
So, what are they?
Little round green things, eaten with a knob of butter and roast lamb on Sundays? No, 'fraid not.
SweetPeas are flowers.
Lathyrus odoratus is the Latin name they are known by. They are related to the pea that we eat, the plants growing in similar conditions and similar ways. In ...
solamarie 23.07.2005
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Advantages: Scent, shape coulour and variety Disadvantages: Need lots of support
SweetPeas are one of the most easily grown climer and given the right circumstances can produce splendorous results.
I have gained the best results from the seeds I have purchased from Wilko's, any thing from 39p per packet up over!
My favourite's at the moment are Spencer Wave, produceing large frilly white blooms on a long stem, excellent in cut flower displays.
The variety of sweetpeas on the market is outstanding, a great selection of scents shapes sizes and colours are now available with new varieties becomming more readily available.
Sweetpeas ned some sort of support to climb up, in either the form of a wig wam or perhaps a trellis of some sort. Don't be afraid to use your imagination when it come to sweetpeas. They can provide a beautiful scented screen or back drop in any garden and with them climing, they take ...
wingbat 10.10.2001
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