Spring is undeniably the best time of the year to dust off your gardening equipment and get to planting. And while you can stick to tending to your green hedges, your flourishing veggie patch, and ...

• Seeds for sweet peas and native California wildflowers should be planted in November to get the best blooms this spring. • Sweet peas have a delicate, unforgettable fragrance that has never been ...

I have a perennial sweet pea on my balcony – it’s in a pot and in a sunny spot with sun from 4pm onwards. I have got some blooms from it this summer. However, the bottom of the plant looks very ...

Fresh long brinjal. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Do you have a gardening question? The UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County can help. Our volunteers are part of the University of California’s ...

Know what kind of plant you are buying and you'll know how long it should be able to live in your garden. Here are the basics: Annual --A plant that grows, flowers and sets seed in one year. Sweet ...

You might say daughter-in-law Dawn Meredith Peck has the uncommon sense in this family. Or, at least, an uncommon sense of scent, a pursuit of floral fragrance which has driven her to write three ...

Nothing makes scents like sweet peas. These climbing, vining legumes aren’t edible — they’re grown for their flowers, and when I say flowers, think armfuls of colorful, ambrosial bouquets, brightening ...