My first sweetpeas

[Ben Acre]

My Spencer sweet peas "Charlies Angel"

[Ben Acre]

[saddad]

Lovely... we have buds...  :)

[caroline7758]

my perennial ones are taking over the garden as they do every year, but my annuals are a long way off flowering. I had some "Charlie's angels" seed from a felow a4a member last year and sowed some saved seed oiver winter but lost them all. :(

[Kleftiwallah]

Ben, if you remove the tendrills and all side shoots (tying the pea to a strong support)  you will eventually get four or five blooms per  l o n g  stalk just as the exhibishionist do.  When the pea reaches the top of the 'cane' unwind it coil it up on the ground and start it up the cane again.   :o    Cheers,   Tony.

[gaz2000]

mine have started now,purples so far  ;D

look great in contrast to the irises.

[RSJK]

Beautiful flowers just wished they were not so attractive to those little black bugs

[Growing4twins]

First time ive tried sweet peas & im a little concerned knowing that some of you guys already have flowers.  Mine r about 15cm tall @ the mo & from what i can tell they r miles away from flowering.  Any advice would b good :) Where would i find perennial seeds??  Ive heard they are like rocking horse s*%t to find.

[saddad]

We are on our third cut... and most are only a foot tall... so not long now "twins"
we have some perennials... that give seed each year... if you want some.. no scent though!  :-\

[Growing4twins]

we have some perennials... that give seed each year... if you want some.. no scent though!  :-\

Ooo yes please Saddad, i want some things that will just keep growing year after year & look really nice.  I saw somewhere that you should pinch out the top to encorage branching when they r about 10cm tall, i did this on a few of them but the leaves went white, should i do it & should that happen?

[Alex133]

Lovely colours.

Sowed mine in loo rolls this year and terrible growth since planting out. Chap's on plot next to me planted out at same time and now about 5 times bigger. Tried to water well but guess not enough without free root run.

[Growing4twins]

YAY!!! ive finally got some flowers :0))  They started a few weeks back, they dont rush do they???  But they are sooooo worth waiting for, im a sweet pea addict now & will be planting hundreds of them next year :)