How To Use Sweet pea In A Sentence
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The sweet peas just now started blooming, that is so late, even though they were planted mid February.
Wordless June Blooms « Fairegarden
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Like other sweet pea varieties, give them regular feeds and cut off fading flowers.
The Sun
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Close against them and overpeering their tops were hollyhocks and dahlias; against these stood at lesser height sweet peas, asters, zinnias, coreopsis and others of like stature; in front of these were poppies for summer, marigolds for autumn; beneath these again were verbenas, candytuft -- all this is sketched from memory, and I recall the winsome effect rather than species and names; and still below nestled portulaca and periwinkle.
The Amateur Garden
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How about sweet peas for fragrance and delicacy of form and colour?
23 Steps to Successful Achievement
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If you have a little cover, you can plant sweet pea seed, or if you prefer to sow direct into the ground why not try some beautiful blue cornflowers?
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Bilaterally symmetrical flowers, such as snapdragons and sweet peas, have distinctive upper and lower petals and are therefore asymmetric from top to bottom.
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THE secret to great sweet peas is autumn planting.
The Sun
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John Hadley builds his house in 1778 from the timbers of wrecked boats, while the British blockade the port and his wife, Coral, plants turnips and sweet peas.
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Plants such as sweet pea, forget-me-nots, wallflowers, winter-flowering pansies and violas are widely available.
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There is nothing like the sweet fragrance of a vase of sweet peas in the house.
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High on my popularity list are calendula (pot marigolds), clarkia, cornflowers, larkspur, love-in-a-mist, godetia, sweet peas and sunflowers.
The Sun
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As your sweet peas begin to grow, sprinkle a little superphosphate over the bed and water well in.
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To give the sweet peas a jump-start on the season, lightly scratch the seed coat with sandpaper and soak the seed in water overnight.
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First up were the sweet peas - 13 had survived so I potted them up in pairs (with one over!) in two 12 inch pots.
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Pink spikes and white and vivid blue spikes; masses of brown and orange cups, like low-growing tulips; ranks of beautiful vetches and purple lupines; escholtzias, like immense sweeps of golden sunlight; wild sweet peas; trumpet-shaped blossoms whose name no one knew, -- all flung broadcast over the face of the land, and in such stintless quantities that it dazzled the mind to think of as it did the eyes to behold them.
Clover
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Very fancy fences can be created from tall flowering annuals such as cleome, cosmos, dahlias, sweet peas and sunflowers for a display of spring, summer and autumn colour.
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He was a member of St Mary's Parochial Church Council, was a sidesman and often read the lessons - and the church benefited from his passion for growing sweet peas.
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Planting sweet peas got her back on track.
The Sun
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Space the canes 8in apart and plant a sweet pea at the bottom of each one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sweet peas, busy Lizzies, pansies and marigolds are bringing vivid colours to a location which is on the brink of massive investment.
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THIS week we're offering a collection of sweet pea varieties which will give you masses of blooms and strong fragrance.
The Sun
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Climbing plants such as sweet peas need canes or spirals to allow them room to grow but choose something thin enough for them to cling on to.
The Sun
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In anticipation that the same problem might recur this summer I tried sowing some sweet peas with the runner beans.
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She was delighted to hear her namesake sweet pea has been grown continuously for more than 60 years.
The Sun
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Keep picking your sweet peas if you want them to go on producing more flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether he's painting a bather or a tree or a field of sweet peas, it seems not to matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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The original sweet pea introduced here more than 300 years ago is likely to have been a magenta and purple bicolour collected in the wild by Francesco Cupani, a botanising Sicilian monk.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Sweet pea seed can be sown in May.
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A sweet peanut butter pastry cream is stuffed into homemade or store-bought creampuff shells, which are bathed in melted chocolate and crowned with chopped peanuts.
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Peanut Butter Cup Profiteroles
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Also consider sweet peas, and, for evening blooms, moonflowers.
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I bought some more of these deliciously sweet peaches
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A few of my favourite things - sweet peas, long walks, and tea in bed reading the qualities on a Sunday.
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- one of the sweet pea buds is just showing a seductive glimpse of silky amber petal ...
June 17th, 2006
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Flowers such as, Cosmos 'Purity' and dill flowers for decor, table centres of potted acidanthera, and a bouquet of roses, alchemilla and sweet peas.
Thrifty Mommy
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Unfragranced but floriferous and hardy, this sweet pea will return each year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The special Christmas food was mostly sweet: gingerbread dolls; frumenty, made with wheat and eggs and honey; perry, the sweet pear wine that made her giggly; and Christmas umbles, tripes boiled for hours, then baked in a sweet pie.
The Pillars of the Earth
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When the snow melted my sweet peas emerged unscathed as they had been hardened to cold temperatures.
The Sun
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YOU can save up to 8 on our sweet pea plant offer.
The Sun
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These include sweet peas. calendulas, poppies and larkspur.
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CRISP PORK BELLY, SWEET PEACH SALSA Ask your butcher to score the skin finely for this, as the crackling is essential.
Tender delights
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The cedar tub, six feet in diameter, seemed to fit better with their home, a mid-19th-century redwood farmhouse, especially when he placed the tub outside in a nest of beargrass and wild sweet peas.
NYT > Home Page
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In place of hyacinth, try violets, sweet pea, pansies, or even grass; spray roses will work well in place of the ranunculus.
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How about sweet peas for fragrance and delicacy of form and colour?
23 Steps to Successful Achievement
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Sides were a flavorful "cassoulet" of beans with black pepper, and a rich risotto with a sweet pea mash.
Signs of Spring in New York
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She plants tender climbing vines such as wisteria and sweet peas so they can cling to the warm stone walls.
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How about sweet peas for fragrance and delicacy of form and colour?
23 Steps to Successful Achievement
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Q WHAT is eating my sweet pea plants in my cold frame?
The Sun
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In the carbarn you'll find rest and sweet peace of mind --
Life's Trolley Ride
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They plant sweet peas and turnips and make great plans.
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Sweet pea seed can be sown in May.
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It is painted with treillage and filled with sweet peas, lavender, and alchemilla, intended—according to Mirabel, who directed the flower theming—to evoke the freshness of the English countryside in June in contrast to the atmosphere of an old bus station, which the theater usually evokes.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The
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Annual climbers such as sweet peas can be supported by a wigwam made from bamboo or by twiggy prunings taken from coloured stemmed dogwoods and other shrubs cut back in March.
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It has lush clusters of fragrant white flowers like sweet peas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bridal bouquet also contained sweet peas, lily of the valley, astilbe, jasmine and astrantia.
Times, Sunday Times
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Very fancy fences can be created from tall flowering annuals such as cleome, cosmos, dahlias, sweet peas and sunflowers for a display of spring, summer and autumn colour.
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She plants tender climbing vines such as wisteria and sweet peas so they can cling to the warm stone walls.
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Look now at the magnificent "lambrequin" of sweet peas, which drapes the window and almost hides the box in which they grow.
Gardening by Myself
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Geraniums, dianthus, cosmos, sweet peas and even fuchsias are also popular.
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The clock that hung on the wall rang every hour the sweet peal of chimes.
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Some restaurants actually have foragers on their payrolls, and others need to hire artistically talented cooks to plate dishes so that each leaf, each carrot stalk, each nasturtium flower, each pod of immature sweet peas, is placed just so - a serious challenge when tonight's wild harvest contains a surprise crop of newcomers.
Rozanne Gold: Chocolate Dirt: Is It Art or Is It Dinner?
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It is now before me, with a few sprays of the pink sweet pea and a bold spike of the white variety of goat's-rue; the blend is both delicate and effective.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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These include: sweet peas, French beans, runner beans, endive, kale, red cabbage, and ruby chard.
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My first choice is always sweet peas - I have a real soft spot for their delicate, lightly scented flowers.
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How about sweet peas for fragrance and delicacy of form and colour?
23 Steps to Successful Achievement
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Sweet peas, on the other hand, are just the thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Large varieties of sweet peas will need a sturdier form of support, either a wigwam or a row of garden stakes.
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Abutilons; agapanthus; alstremeria; amaryllis; anemone; aralia; araucaria; auricula; azaleas; begonias; cactus; caladium; calceolaria; calla; camellias; cannas; carnations; century plants; chrysanthemums; cineraria; clematis; coleus; crocus; croton; cyclamen; dahlia; ferns; freesia; fuchsia; geranium; gladiolus; gloxinia; grevillea; hollyhocks; hyacinths; iris; lily; lily-of-the-valley; mignonette; moon-flowers; narcissus; oleander; oxalis; palms; pandanus; pansy; pelargonium; peony; phlox; primulas; rhododendrons; rose; smilax; stocks; sweet pea; swainsona; tuberose; tulips; violet; wax plant.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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Plants which can flower regardless of the hours of light are called 'day-neutral,' such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, sweet peas, artichokes, and most cucurbits.
Chapter 24
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Sweet peas are the obvious choice, and cornflower, godetia, larkspur and stocks are other good examples.
The Sun
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There seems to be so much parallelism in the kind of variation from my experiment, which was certainly a cross, and what Mr. Masters has observed, that I cannot help suspecting that his peas were crossed by bees, which I have seen well dusted with the pollen of the sweet pea; but then I wish this, and how hard it is to prevent one's wish biassing one's judgment!
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
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HOW can I rid my sweet peas of powdery mildew?
The Sun
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Sweet peas flowered under the windows of the crowded barracks and were brought in to scent the rooms.
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Members of the Picco family of Santa Cruz, Calif., enjoy their six-foot-wide cedar tub, which is nestled in a patch of beargrass and wild sweet peas.
NYT > Home Page
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-3* Leonard pottered round the greenhouse, tying up canes for the tomatoes and preparing the sweet pea seedlings for potting out.
GRACE
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It seems they're necking on the decking, whispering sweet nothings by the sweet peas and what they get up to behind the shrubbery is nobody's business.
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OCTOBER is the month to sow sweet peas for the earliest, largest flowers next summer and the longest flowering period.
The Sun
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It has lush clusters of fragrant white flowers like sweet peas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sweet peas are twisting up the canes.
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Planting sweet peas got her back on track.
The Sun
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No -- during those first two years the only pleasures, so memory declared, were three: the visits of the cake-woman on Saturday -- Marcella sitting in her window could still taste the three-cornered puffs and small sweet pears on which, as much from a fierce sense of freedom and self-assertion as anything else, she had lavished her tiny weekly allowance; the mad games of "tig," which she led and organised in the top playground; and the kindnesses of fat Mademoiselle Rénier, Miss
Marcella
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Some of the things I'm going to miss from that catalog include the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Pack, the Well Scripted stamp set, the With All My Heart stamp set and the Sending Love epoxy brads.
Archive 2010-04-01
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Decades later, the scent of sweet peas still made him gag.
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Her mouth turns down slightly as she says this, sotto voce - women like her don't whisper, such a déclassé high school thing to do - over the sweet peas.
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Space the canes 8in apart and plant a sweet pea at the bottom of each one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Poppies, sweet peas, pot marigold and gilia are all waiting in our yard for attention.
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Sweet peas, pansies and calendulas are fairly cold tolerant and should be planted as soon as soil can be easily worked.
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Grandad grew everything, but the plants that set me on the right track were sweet peas and tomatoes.
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Mountain laurel and pink rhododendron peek out of the woods, while black-eyed susans and sweet peas brighten the roadside.
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CRISP PORK BELLY, SWEET PEACH SALSA Ask your butcher to score the skin finely for this, as the crackling is essential.
Tender delights
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Geraniums, dianthus, cosmos, sweet peas and even fuchsias are also popular.
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THIS week we're offering a collection of sweet pea varieties which will give you masses of blooms and strong fragrance.
The Sun
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You can sow the following directly in the ground: baby blue eyes, forget-me-nots, sweet alyssum, sweet peas, and spring wildflowers.
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There is no limit to what you can grow, from sweet peas to all types of vegetables and soft fruit.
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Their only draw back is their bare legs so I use the woody-stemmed canes of the roses as living supports for loose-limbed, delicate vines such as clematis, love-in-a puff, honeysuckle and sweet peas.
Suzy Bales: Roses as Climbers, Ramblers and Scramblers
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At some stage in their life, most gardeners will grow annual sweet peas.
Times, Sunday Times
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How about the fragrant white sweet pea Royal Wedding?
The Sun
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When the snow melted my sweet peas emerged unscathed as they had been hardened to cold temperatures.
The Sun
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Washington (CNN) - Tables set in resplendent colors - apple green, ruby, gold - with floral arrangements of roses, hydrangeas and sweet peas in plum, purple and fuchsia awaited guests to Tuesday's White House state dinner.
Resplendent colors highlight setting for state dinner
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With age, some take on an asparagus note, and you can detect traces of fennel and sweet pea.
Times, Sunday Times
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HOW can I rid my sweet peas of powdery mildew?
The Sun
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Daddy gotta get going, okay, sweet pea?
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Our sweet pea competition last weekend had blooms sent in by mail.
The Sun
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Anyway, I used one of the small Sweet Pea Stitched Felt flowers from the Occasions Mini Catalog as an accent as well as the tiny tags stamp set and the very vintage jumbo wheel.
Archive 2010-02-01
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Sweet peas are one of the delights of the summer garden, with their long-lasting splashes of colour.
Times, Sunday Times
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How about the fragrant white sweet pea Royal Wedding?
The Sun
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And the only drawback to climbing roses is their bare legs; I use their woody-stemmed canes as living supports for loose-limbed, delicate vines such as clematis, love-in-a-puff and sweet peas or I plant perennials or shrubs in front of them.
Suzy Bales: Up, Up and Away With Climbing Roses (PHOTOS)
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Drain the vinegar from the clam and add the sweet pea juice, wasabi, water chestnuts, chili, parsley and sea salt and toss to combine.
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Sweet peas had little tendency to cross-fertilize.
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It is now before me, with a few sprays of the pink sweet pea and a bold spike of the white variety of goat's-rue; the blend is both delicate and effective.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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These knobbles look like individual Yorkshire puddings, or popovers as they would say here, that have only risen on one side, and are strapped onto the middle of two sweet pea stakes.
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The peonies are my favorites for cut flowers, I think, though the sweet peas would give them a run for their money!
Flowers For Cutting « Fairegarden
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Annual climbers such as sweet peas can be supported by a wigwam made from bamboo or by twiggy prunings taken from coloured stemmed dogwoods and other shrubs cut back in March.
