Keen to get a head start on the gardening year? Here's everything you need to know about sowing sweet peas in January ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I can’t remember exactly who or what first drew me to growing sweet peas—it might have been the great ...

Do you love the smell and beautiful pastel colors of sweet peas in early spring? You can grow them yourself if you get started now. Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) require full sun, fertile soil and ...

With their delicious perfume and myriad of candy-like hues, sweet peas are undeniably one of the best early-summer bloomers. To grow them in your garden, you can either sow some seeds (a wider range ...

Fresh long brinjal. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Do you have a gardening question? The UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County can help. Our volunteers are part of the University of California’s ...

The middle of March is the time to start growing cool season crops such as peas, sweet peas, lettuce, radishes, cabbage, kale and anything else that has instructions on the seed pack that tells you to ...

When you've outgrown party dresses, there are always sweet peas. Remember those lighter-than-air numbers that were soft, stiff and wavy all at the same time? The fabric had a special sheen that might ...

Lilacs have graced gardens for centuries, with their fragrant clusters of purple, white, and pink flowers heralding the ...