Spring is undeniably the best time of the year to dust off your gardening equipment and get to planting. And while you can stick to tending to your green hedges, your flourishing veggie patch, and ...

• Seeds for sweet peas and native California wildflowers should be planted in November to get the best blooms this spring. • Sweet peas have a delicate, unforgettable fragrance that has never been ...

Growing sweet peas is easy and rewarding. These lovely climbing annual flowers bring color and fragrance to any garden. There’s a lovely array of hues to pick from as well, from soft pastels to vivid ...

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 ...

For as long as I can remember - which is usually about two minutes, the same as my attention span - I've heard that Good Friday is the traditional day for planting peas. That always struck me as being ...

Native to the eastern Mediterranean region, sweet peas were first introduced to gardens in the 17 th Century. Over time, breeders have developed various cultivars and colour strains. Some focus on the ...

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 glory of the sweet-pea bloom is behind her, but Glenys Johnson still loves autumn, perhaps most of all. As she pulls the dry pods from her spent vines and opens them to remove the seeds, she knows ...

There are some gardeners in Western Washington that may have soil ready now for early spring planting of peas. Most of us will need to wait for a few more weeks before poking sweet pea and garden pea ...