Ask sweet pea growers for their favorite bloom and you are bound to hear the name ‘Blue Shift’. Once you’ve actually seen the ...

Sweet pea plants with virus have several symptoms: leaves become mottled, growth becomes stunted and flowers are speckled with another colour. The virus is spread by infected sap. This is usually ...

Sherman grows over 3,000 plants each year and sows all her seed by putting single seeds into 2-inch plastic pots. She then transplants them into the garden, spacing the seedlings about 8 inches apart.

Plant sweet peas in front of each cane. Let plants grow to 30cm (12in) and then select the strongest shoot and remove the rest. Tie shoot to cane and regularly pinch off side shoots and tendrils.

Both types make wonderful cut flowers with sweet, old-fashioned fragrance and a variety of colors. Be aware, though, that the peas are inedible and even toxic if ingested in quantity.

With autumn one of the best times to sow for strong and early flowering plants next season, we’ll send you the 6 packets of seed in September. Available for just £8.74 from the Telegraph Garden ...

'Snowbird': This variety produces very early, erect, dwarf plants 18" tall that produce amazing numbers of 3" pods in groups of two to three. Peas are ready to pick 58 days after seed is sown.

But the devoted flower farmer has so much more to say. “Sweet Pea School” opens with a look into the history and provenance of sweet peas, beginning with the familiar story of a 17th-century ...

Delicate sweet pea flowers (Image: Getty) As the days begin to brighten and the temperature warms up (just a little bit), many of us are venturing back out into our gardens again.

This new flower will have a Welsh name for the first time since the sweet pea arrived in Britain 300 years ago. John Rowlands, originally from Bala, has been growing sweet peas on his Denbighshire ...

Sweet Peas. There is not a specific date to plant sweet pea seeds as long as you plant them in the fall: anytime in October, November or by early December.