25+ 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. Sweet pea shrubs make wonderful additions to mixed perennial borders in warm climates and they also look great in patio containers. Plant database entry for sweet pea shrub polygala fruticosa petite butterfly with 3 images and 30 data details. Sweet pea shrubs are neat rounded evergreens that bloom off and on all year long. Alternatively plant sweet peas out in large containers on the patio. Gather the flowers in the morning when the dew is still on them. Masses of vibrant purple magenta pea like flowers will adorn the compact mound of gray green foliage for much of the year. A wonderful patio container plant and useful for mass plantings or mixed into a flowering perennial garden.

Plant your peas in a container that s at least 6 inches 15 cm deep and 8 inches 20 cm in diameter. The colorful and fragrant sweet pea is a favorite in cottage gardens and other informal garden styles. 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. Plant your peas 2 inches 5 cm apart and when they re a few inches high thin them to 4 inches 10 cm apart. It is most often seen trained up bamboo stakes or structures but can also be left to form mounds or planted in containers where it spills over the sides. 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. This is when their scent is the sweetest.

With such a wide variety to choose from you ll be spoilt for choice. They re perfect for those spots where you get shade in the summer and full sun in winter. Victorians loved sweet peas for their color diversity and fragrance. There are two basic groups of sweet pea plants the tall climbers and the dwarf varieties used in bedding hanging baskets and containers. If you missed out sowing your sweet pea seeds in the early autumn and want to be picking masses. The sweet pea is an essential member of a late victorian garden. 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.

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