• 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 ...

Nothing makes scents like sweet peas. These climbing, vining legumes aren’t edible — they’re grown for their flowers, and when I say flowers, think armfuls of colorful, ambrosial bouquets, brightening ...

Happy St. Patrick’s weekend; a time for ordinary people to drink beer laced with green dye and for MY people — gardeners — to start their peas. Spring crops like peas and salad greens are difficult to ...

The good news is that a traditional dedicated space is not needed to grow food.

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 ...

The end of February is time to rake your lawn, plant peas and sweet peas if your soil is well drained and continue to add bare-root fruit trees, berries and roses to your garden. This also is the time ...

DENVER — Gardeners begin planting in earnest around St. Patrick's Day. Inside, we celebrate the day with pots of shamrocks. Shamrocks don't really exist in Ireland or anywhere else. They're just Dutch ...

For the rabid — I mean, avid — gardener, the planting and sprucing-up season can’t begin soon enough. And for any kind of gardener or homeowner, there’s a lot to do once March begins. GENERAL OUTDOOR ...