Your very kind, GD, but I'm certain there are much better gardeners and gardens on this forum....for me Busy Lizzies's is amazing, especially as she maintains it herself with minimal support.
During my very long gardening life I've specialised (to show standard) in just roses & sweet peas, although my true interest is in growing fruit & vegetables.
Perhaps where I come to be where I am with gardening is for another thread.
Hello David. Thank you for that. Your sweet peas are lovely and because of you I started trying to grow them again in Dordogne. Sometimes it's just too hot for them in summer and they finish earlier than they used to in England.
I grow mine in the veg garden too, but OH has moved their trellis to behind GH where it's a bit shadier at midday.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Oh how beautiful! all mine are growung nicely and just have a few nibbled leaves at the bottom ( just went out and bashed a few snails) can't wait to see and smell them! If we get a patch cleared at the new allotment in time want to pop a few in up there as I sowed loads this year, haven't got keys yet though, very sure it's going to be lots of flowers alongside the friut and veg!
What lovely displays of sweet peas, they look so colourful and tidy too. I grew them against our cottage wall last year but they did look very unruly. This year I have followed David's tip of growing them in containers (not baskets but large pots) and so far so good, although no flower buds yet.
For the record, I consider growing in containers very much a second best to being grown in deeply dug beds in the garden. You're right about growing in baskets.....far too much of a faff.
Mine too were unruly GD and wouldn't leave each other alone! Oh what a tangled web they wove. I have none in this year and I will miss them but next year I'll be back! I might even have an official trellis by then so there'll be no excuse for cuddling up!
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Hello David. Thank you for that. Your sweet peas are lovely and because of you I started trying to grow them again in Dordogne. Sometimes it's just too hot for them in summer and they finish earlier than they used to in England.
I grow mine in the veg garden too, but OH has moved their trellis to behind GH where it's a bit shadier at midday.
I grow mine in the veg patch too.
Last years effort.
Taken before picking. I strip all flowers off every three days or so.
I love the gaudy red of Winston Churchill.
Oh how beautiful! all mine are growung nicely and just have a few nibbled leaves at the bottom ( just went out and bashed a few snails) can't wait to see and smell them! If we get a patch cleared at the new allotment in time want to pop a few in up there as I sowed loads this year, haven't got keys yet though, very sure it's going to be lots of flowers alongside the friut and veg!
What lovely displays of sweet peas, they look so colourful and tidy too. I grew them against our cottage wall last year but they did look very unruly. This year I have followed David's tip of growing them in containers (not baskets but large pots) and so far so good, although no flower buds yet.
GD - Good luck with your sweet peas.
For the record, I consider growing in containers very much a second best to being grown in deeply dug beds in the garden. You're right about growing in baskets.....far too much of a faff.
Mine too were unruly GD and wouldn't leave each other alone! Oh what a tangled web they wove. I have none in this year and I will miss them but next year I'll be back! I might even have an official trellis by then so there'll be no excuse for cuddling up!