Growing Sweet Peas

In our trials, Elegance Lavender is typically a few days later than other colors in the series. Sow 2 seeds directly into each cell or 3-4" pot, 1/4- 1/2" deep. Cutting flowers increases bloom.4-6 days.

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

Soft pastel flowers are blushed cream, with the standard and wing petals brushed and banded deep pink. Adds soft colors to contrast more vivid hues of sweet peas and other climbers.

Just one cluster of cut stems delicately permeates a room with a pure, clean scent. Vines ramble to 6 ft.; an ideal choice for flowing over patio urns or climbing up a small garden trellis.

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

Elegance series is the first and most abundant to bloom in our trials. Sow 2 seeds directly into each cell or 3-4" pot, 1/4- 1/2" deep. Cutting flowers increases bloom.4-6 days. Thin to one plant when the true leaves appear.

We've selected only the best for you. All have a slight honey or orangey aroma and make excellent spring cut flowers. 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,...

For earlier bloom, start seeds indoors, in a cool location, 6-8 weeks before last heavy frost. Beautiful collection of colors. Plants are heat tolerant. The large flowers have ruffled, bicolor petals on 8-12" stems, which makes them wonderful for arrangements.

Sun, partial shade. Strong-stemmed plants are best supported with trellises or grown along fences. The strong-stemmed statuesque plants, standing 4' tall, will quickly cover a trellis with fragrant blooms.

Cutting flowers increases bloom.4-6 days. Plants produce 3-4, slightly ruffled blooms per 9-12" stem. Keep soil surface moist until emergence. Darkness is required for germination.

Sweet peas prefer deeply dug soil with lots of rich compost. Needs darkness to germinate. Mix seeds with moistened peat moss and place in plastic bag. Cut with a clean knife that has been dipped in a solution of 10% household bleach.

If you prefer to soak your seeds: soak in 85°F water for 1-3 hours and plant immediately — longer soaking times are often detrimental; seeds need air to live. Vines average 4-5 feet long.

Seed is rare and not always available. (Annual, 60-72″ tall) Learn more about Growing Sweet Peas here. Once the vines start to bloom, cut the flowers for arrangements and enjoy. Sure to be a garden favorite! Gorgeous, red and white striped sweet pea...

Planting and Growing Tips: These uniquely-shaped flowers thrive in rich, well-drained soil but will tolerate most growing conditions. The more you cut, the more they'll grow. A true market winner! (Annual, 72″ tall) Learn more about Growing Sweet Peas...

Water regularly during warm, dry conditions to keep them blooming. The more you cut, the more they'll grow. Vining varieties need support to climb – provide them some sort of terrace or garden netting.

Pick off spent flowers to encourage new blossoms.: Sweet pea seeds resemble edible sweet peas, but they are toxic if eaten. You can still find fragrant varieties, often labeled as “old fashioned” or “heirloom,” but modern varieties also have their...

Let's look at a checklist of the requirements for a sweet pea to bloom.Sweet pea flowers not blooming? You might find that you enjoy the task. It might also help to water them as often as possible.

One day the plants are loaded with buds that should open at any time, and the next day the buds are dropping off. Although fertilizer is good for plants, it gives them added stress by pushing them to grow and form buds and flowers.

Sweet peas prefer deeply dug soil with lots of rich compost. Needs darkness to germinate. Mix seeds with moistened peat moss and place in plastic bag. Cut with a clean knife that has been dipped in a solution of 10% household bleach.

Planting and Growing Tips: These uniquely-shaped flowers thrive in rich, well-drained soil but will tolerate most growing conditions. The more you cut, the more they'll grow. This is a very old variety, dating to the early 1700s.

If you want to plant them in another location or share your seeds with a friend, however, follow these easy instructions to collect the seeds.Select a few beautiful, robust plants and stop deadheading them.

By the 1880s, Henry Eckford began hybridizing the sweet scented blooms for more color variety. 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,...

When the seedlings are about 10 inches tall, pinch out the growing point to allow for more branching. Vines average 4-5 feet long. Sow 5-6 weeks prior to anticipated transplant date.

Since they're so pleasant to have around, you may want to bring them in even closer than your garden. Luckily, growing sweet peas in containers is easy to do. As with anything grown in containers, they are subject to drying out faster and, therefore,...

Even so, this high protein seed, when eaten in excess over prolonged periods, can cause a disease, lathyrism, that results in paralysis below the knees in adults and brain damage in children.

When the seedlings are about 10 inches tall, pinch out the growing point to allow for more branching. Vines average 4-5 feet long. Sow 5-6 weeks prior to anticipated transplant date.

If you prefer to soak your seeds: soak in 85°F water for 1-3 hours and plant immediately — longer soaking times are often detrimental; seeds need air to live. Vines average 4-5 feet long.