This year’s not-so-superbloom of wildflowers in San Luis Obispo County may have peaked in most places, but not so along Highway 46 West this week. Many of the road-cut hillsides from Green Valley Road ...

As I prepare to host a backyard wedding for a third time, I am getting used to making my garden look impressive at odd times of the year. This time the challenge will be to get something blooming ...

Sweet peas are here!Ramona and Jim Markalunas have been distributing sweet peas for just about as long as anyone can remember. Ramona says the tradition has been going on for “at least 25 years.”A ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- I've been threatening everyone with Gulf Coast sweet peas for 15 years now. In my early years as a garden writer, I’d have to say that sweet pea anguish was almost as pervasive as ...

"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 ...

Sweet peas are amongst the most adored garden blooms. Floriferous, gloriously fragrant and available in a dazzling array of colors from softest cream to vibrant violet they never cease to captivate.

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 ...

In summer, dusty Washington roadsides are often brightened with rosy sweet peas. A reader wants to know if the roadside sweet peas are garden escapees, and if they’d have stronger scent if grown in ...

Interestingly enough, the St Patrick’s Day planting works for us, too, as peas are a cool climate crop and need to be grown here during our winter. But if you missed planting them in the wee hours of ...