Topic: A rewarding plant?

[tim]

The simple perennial Sweet Pea?

[Robert_Brenchley]

I love these, but I've never managed to get them established yet. Must try again! They grow well round here once they do get going.

[sarah]

i have a perennial sweetpea in a neglected area of my front garden which i am very fond of. i have been meaning for some time to propogate it and put some in the back garden. I read on another site that it is a very invasive character and you need to think carefully about introducing it as once in it is difficult to erradicate.  Perhaps as an example of this i will tell you that last year my neighbour creosoted his side of our boundry fence and that the stuff seeped through to our side and "killed" the perrenial sweetpea. i was very cross about this as it is a beautiful flower.  I need not have worried it has returned as strong as ever, but it has made me think twice about introducing it to the main garden.

[Hyacinth]

Invasive? Don't I know it! The b. decided to migrate from up against the hawthorne hedge to the middle of a vegetable bed. It took all one winter of digging & coating suckers with Root Out to eradicate it. The main root was huge. It's still there against the hawthorne - I get the roots, my neighbour gets the flowers.grrrr. >:(

[gardenqueen]

I have a white flowing variety, and so far it hasn't shown any signs of being invasive.

[Mrs Ava]

I wish!  Twice I have planted it, and twice it survives the one year before departing this mortal coil!

[MrsKP]

Mine is an annual, but going wild !

I picked a bunch this morning and put them in the office and you could smell them all around the flat.

Once I know what I'm doing with the garden/plot, I shall try some perennials.  I think they're lovely.

[Tulipa]

It is one of the few plants that survives the battle against my football mad sons at the bottom of the garden, it has been there years and still keeps coming! :)

[Hyacinth]

KP, the perennial's got no scent. Rampant annuals for me any time :)

[MrsKP]

What's the point then ?   :P

While we're on the subject, at the end of the season when you'd dig in the runner beans rather than clear them, please tell me you'd do the same with the sweet peas.

You can hardly see my runners in amongst the SPs atm.

 ;D