how to plant, grow & care for sweet peas We have teepees and arches covered with sweet peas in flower during June and July – they fill the garden, house and life with scent and colour. They are the stars of our summer season. The range of sw
sweet pea climbing frames and systems Sweet peas are the best climbers for the cutting or vegetable patch. If you have grown your own sweet peas from seed or purchased ready-to-go sweet pea seedlings from us, this guide wi
how to cordon train your sweet peas My friend Nipper Keely taught me how to cordon train my sweet peas to grow magnificent plants. Nipper’s stems of trained sweet peas are at least eighteen inches long, with five or six flowers o
layering sweet peas If you want sweet peas with spectacularly long, perfectly straight stems and lots of large flowers on each stem, it's a good idea to layer them, but this does involve tonnes of work. When you are rea
how to make a sweet pea table centrepiece Sarah shows us how to make a really quick and easy, colourful table centrepiece with sweet peas, something that is perfect for a summer party or wedding. I was out in t
the sweet pea story It's a fascinating story – how we got from that small, highly scented climber to where we are now. introduced to Britain The Sicilian monk, Franciscus Cupani, was writing a Flora of Sicily and
sweet peas at perch hill When I was giving a talk at a Perch Hill open day, I showed a slide of my current favourite sweet pea, the very fresh pink, ‘Painted Lady’. Afterwards a woman came up to me and said, "Your ‘Painted La
