N o summer garden is complete without sweet peas. With super-abundant, delicate flowers with a heavenly perfume, they are addictive to grow, not least for their cut-flower potential, filling our homes ...

The sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) traces its history to southern Italy, where in the 17th century its richly scented but relatively undistinguished flowers caught the attention of Francisco Cupani ...

Below, you'll find five places to avoid planting sweet peas, along with plenty of helpful advice from gardening experts. There are also tips on what to plant alongside your sweet peas, for even ...

The plant propagates easily from seed and is known by a variety of common names such as perennial sweet pea, Brede Lathrys broadleaf pea, everlasting sweet pea, pea vine, and wild sweet pea.

Seeds for wildflowers and sweet peas produce delicate bursts of spring color. Here's how to plant them now in SoCal, plus November plant events.

The original sweet pea introduced here more than 300 years ago is likely to have been a magenta and purple bicolour collected in the wild by Francesco Cupani, a botanising Sicilian monk.

NOTE: Flowers from wild sweet pea plants, which cascade down hillsides so abundantly in this region, are toxic.

This is a chaparral sweet pea, also known as a San Diego Sweet Pea, Wild Sweet Pea, Bolander’s pea, Canyon Sweet Pea, Common pacific pea, Pacific peavine, and San Diego Pea. That seems like an ...

Sweet peas like to have cool roots, so adding mulch or additional compost after the plants reach 8 to 10 inches tall will assure success. The time to plant is important to the success of harvesting.

Wild sweet peas originate in Sicily, where the summers are dry and the autumn rains initiate seed germination. During the winter, their roots head deep into the soil, but top growth develops slowly.

The wild sweet pea Lathyrus odoratus is an annual, native to southern Italy, Sicily and some Aegean islands. It's a trailing or climbing plant with intensely fragrant, purple and maroon flowers.