Sweet Pea

Thin to 6" apart when true leaves appear.Transplant: Sow 4-6 weeks before planting out. Formerly called Winter Elegance. Darkness is required for germination. Long stems bear 3-5 blooms.

Royal Family mix produces very large blooms with solid colors of lavender, pink, purple, red, salmon and white. Does best in cool spring weather. A popular old standard sweet pea.

Delicate shades of highly fragrant, large wavy blooms in pastel pink to blush creamy-white. Shield from direct hot sun. Accents for trellises, fences and other living walls. Adds soft colors to contrast more vivid hues of sweet peas and other climbers.

Large, heavenly blossoms are silky white with a lavender picotee edge. Vines ramble to 6 ft.; an ideal choice for flowing over patio urns or climbing up a small garden trellis. Just one cluster of cut stems delicately permeates a room with a pure, clean...

Erewhon is a reverse bicolor, with pale pink standard petal and mid-blue wings. Great in floral arrangements and early spring bouquets. Sweet Peas will flutter into your heart, with their fairylike form, storybook charm and dreamy sweet fragrance.

Thin to 6" apart when true leaves appear.Transplant: Sow 4-6 weeks before planting out. Formerly called Winter Elegance. Darkness is required for germination. Long stems bear 3-5 blooms.

Today, sweet peas remind one of a Victrola in the parlor. This mix of his best has an incredible color range: shell pink, maroon, violet, cream, blue and crimson striped with white.

Beautiful collection of colors. An old-fashioned looking sweet pea, with room-filling fragrance. For earlier bloom, start seeds indoors, in a cool location, 6-8 weeks before last heavy frost.

We are in love with this standout variety and its large, dense gorgeous clusters of blush cream petals, brushed rosy wing petals and pink picotee. The strong-stemmed statuesque plants, standing 4' tall, will quickly cover a trellis with fragrant blooms.

Darkness is required for germination. Pinch when 6-8" tall to encourage denser branching and more flowers. Thin to 6" apart when true leaves appear.Transplant: Sow 4-6 weeks before planting out.

The color and beauty of a flower garden can lift the spirit and renew the soul, and a bouquet of fresh cut flowers will bring sunshine into your home. Then place in the refrigerator for 30-90 days.

Germination occurs in 10-15 days. Germination may take up to 30 days. Some varieties can take over a month to germinate so mark your rows, keep them moist, and for larger seeds like sunflowers, use bird netting.

Soak seeds overnight prior to planting to improve germination and sow — 1/2 inch deep — as soon as the soil can be worked in early spring. (Annual, 60-72″ tall) Learn more about Growing Sweet Peas here.

Once the vines start to bloom, cut the flowers for arrangements and enjoy. Water regularly during warm, dry conditions to keep them blooming. This very fragrant sweet pea has beautiful blue and white blossoms.

The more you cut, the more they'll grow. If you're new to growing sweet peas, Grandiflora Mix is the one! Strongly scented and contains 25 different colors with some bi-color and striped varieties.

If you are growing climbing sweet peas, have your trellis in place before planting the sweet pea seeds so that you don't damage the roots by trying to install it later. Too much fertilizer encourages an abundance of foliage at the expense of sweet pea...

You don't have to stand constant watch over them, but visit them every few days to remove the spent blossoms. And speaking of light, they prefer long days. Flowering slows and might even stop if the plants form pods.

In most cases, you can simply wait until temperatures rise.You might be able to prevent some buds from dropping by holding off on the fertilizer until after the flowers are in full bloom.

The color and beauty of a flower garden can lift the spirit and renew the soul, and a bouquet of fresh cut flowers will bring sunshine into your home. Then place in the refrigerator for 30-90 days.

Once the vines start to bloom, cut the flowers for arrangements and enjoy. Water regularly during warm, dry conditions to keep them blooming. There's a reason that vintage flowers are so desirable! Painted Lady Sweet Pea is a delicate blend of pink and...

Line a flat surface, such as a countertop or cookie sheet, with newspaper and let the seeds dry for about three days. As the seed pods dry, they pop open and drop their seeds to the ground.

To pinch sweet pea plants, wait until they are 4 to 8 inches high. A natural mutation found in the gardens of the English Earl of Spencer, gave us the large flowering varieties of today.When it comes to pinching out sweet peas, there are two schools of...

Sow 5-6 weeks prior to anticipated transplant date. Sweet peas prefer deeply dug soil with lots of rich compost. The color and beauty of a flower garden can lift the spirit and renew the soul, and a bouquet of fresh cut flowers will bring sunshine into...

You can buy a trellis or you can simply sink a couple of sticks or bamboo poles into the container's soil.The best container grown sweet peas are the short varieties that top out at a height of about one foot, but you can choose taller varieties as long...

He later passed the seeds onto a botanist at the medical school in Amsterdam who later published a paper on sweet peas, including the first botanical illustration.Darlings of the late Victorian era, sweet peas were cross bred and developed by a Scottish...

Sow 5-6 weeks prior to anticipated transplant date. Sweet peas prefer deeply dug soil with lots of rich compost. The color and beauty of a flower garden can lift the spirit and renew the soul, and a bouquet of fresh cut flowers will bring sunshine into...

Germination occurs in 10-15 days. Germination may take up to 30 days. Some varieties can take over a month to germinate so mark your rows, keep them moist, and for larger seeds like sunflowers, use bird netting.