Unwins Sweet Pea Fertilizer

Advantages: A fragrant bloom
Disadvantages: None

...A Sweet Pea 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 Sweet pea 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... Read review

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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 Sweet Peas, 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. Sweet Peas 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... Read review

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Advantages: lovely smell
Disadvantages: none

...sweet pea is an absolutley georgeous plant for your garden during summer, the name is a bit miss leading as this plant doesnt produce peas at all but does produce the most beautiful smell in your garden. These come in a vast array of colours so look beautiful as there are so many different colours together and this plant can be put absolutley anywhere, it is a climbing plant so you can get it to trail up trellising on your fencing which can get to about 8 foot tall and looks absolutley beautiful or you can use it as a trailing plant to come down from your container tubs or hanging baskets so is suitable for any garden from the very small to the very large. These are available now in dwarf species which only grow to about 8 inches which are also ideal for your hanging baskets or window boxes. This plant enjoys a cool climate... Read review

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