Sweet Pea Shrub Landscape

Sweet pea plants have a gorgeous fragrance and superb flower power the more you cut the more you get.

Sweet pea shrub landscape. High quality sweet pea plugs seeds at excellent prices. Plant annual perennial dwarf single and mixed coloured sweet pea flowers in plant pots or beds and enjoy as cut flowers in your home. Sweet peas love a rich moist soil so dig a couple of buckets of compost into the planting area beforehand to enrich the soil and hold moisture during dry weather. This is when their scent is the sweetest. But wherever you decide to plant them you ll need to provide a suitable support as sweet peas are climbers. When you plant your container grown sweet peas depends a lot on where you live. Masses of vibrant purple magenta pea like flowers will adorn the compact mound of gray green foliage for much of the year.

Sweet pea shrubs are neat rounded evergreens that bloom off and on all year long. If you missed out sowing your sweet pea seeds in the early autumn and want to be picking masses. Gather the flowers in the morning when the dew is still on them. Sweet pea shrubs make wonderful additions to mixed perennial borders in warm climates and they also look great in patio containers. Plant your peas in a container that s at least 6 inches 15 cm deep and 8 inches 20 cm in diameter. Alternatively plant sweet peas out in large containers on the patio. Sweet pea plants sweet pea plants first came to britain from sicily in 1699 but the tall varieties that we love today did not appear until victorian times.

Plant database entry for sweet pea shrub polygala fruticosa petite butterfly with 3 images and 30 data details. The colorful and fragrant sweet pea is a favorite in cottage gardens and other informal garden styles. The sweet pea is an essential member of a late victorian garden. Sweet pea plants possibly britain s favourite annual flower are fragrant with beautiful flowers and the more flowers you cut the more grow on the plant. A wonderful patio container plant and useful for mass plantings or mixed into a flowering perennial garden. They re perfect for those spots where you get shade in the summer and full sun in winter. There are two basic groups of sweet pea plants the tall climbers and the dwarf varieties used in bedding hanging baskets and containers.

With such a wide variety to choose from you ll be spoilt for choice.