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[ubereglu]

Well I sowed my sweet peas back in the autumn and now have my first flower!!!

 

[theherd123]

Liz thats beautiful

 

Mine are just poking their heads through the soil!

[Jules.]

Lovely.

My sweet peas that were so promising a couple of mnths ago have been chickened.

[Guest]

i used to grow sweet peas when i was little, lovely flowers. These days though, to get into my garden, it has to be edible! The girls are excused, of course!

[Mrs Frugal]

Such a pretty coloured one, Liz. Congratulations . I wish we'd grown sweet peas this year. You can't beat the fragrance from them.

[Christian]

Lovely Liz, that colour is my favourite

 

Bung a couple of seeds in the ground now Kate, they will soon catch up

[The Dogmother]

Lovely Liz - they are one of my favoruite flowers. Last year, mine were flowering up until about November as the patio is so sheltered.

 

Talking about scented flowers, I have a bunch of lilies of the valley from the garden indoors and the whole house smells gorgeous!

[ubereglu]

I've got some more ready to flower in that colourway too and some fuschia ones just showing their colour! Hopefully I shall have some more this week.

 

Mine haven't got chickened as they're on the veg patch which has safely been fenced off!

[Christian]

Talking about scented flowers, I have a bunch of lilies of the valley from the garden indoors and the whole house smells gorgeous!

 

Spooky! My mum pulled some up from my garden today and the house smells lovely apparently! (still have a blocked nose )

 

I didn't even know I had them in my garden

[chickencam]

My sweetpeas were planted earlier than I usually do. What was described as 10 plants from B & Q but each square had at least 6 plants in it so i had loads. I planted then in March and they are now about 18 inches high, I've lost some but still have plenty.

 

Well done Liz on your first flower, did you plant them direct or in pots first, and when did they go out?

[ubereglu]

I planted the seeds in late October into toilet rolls with multi purpose compost in them. They sat upstairs in my room, (the attic conversion) on the window ledge and I planted them out a few weeks ago-see my blog for more details!

[Mutrix Farmers]

Lovely colour.

 

Every spring I wish I had planted some seeds in autumn, I will write it on my calendar this year so I don't forget

[Tara.F]

i used to grow sweet peas when i was little, lovely flowers. These days though, to get into my garden, it has to be edible! The girls are excused, of course!

 

growing sweetpeas among your runner beans ensures good pollination (which is why you see so many on allotments) particularly useful in the dry hot summers we've been getting of late.

[chickencam]

Thanks for the info Liz, I must remember to plant some in the autumn along with some broad beans ours are so late this year.