sweet
Adj.
An intensive used to express satisfaction, acceptance, pleasure, excellence, exaltation, approval, awe, or reverence. When used individually, the level of satisfaction expressed is most often directly proportionate to the duration of the vowel sound. Source: The Urban Dictionary
This post’s original title was The Hanging, Cutting Garden but even though accurate, it sounded morbid, even creepy to me (and perhaps you, too) so I quickly deleted it in the second draft.
And yes, describing sweet peas as “sweet” is redundant, but I’m going to use the term because…
… it’s sweet (ie., satisfying, pleasant, excellent, I feel exultant!) to:
1) finally report on a successful gardening experiment,
2) look at the view outside my patio doors,
3) cut a few fresh blossoms every couple of days — even though I have to climb on a ladder to do this, and
4) sniff their delicate scent — and I mean deeply inhale.
A pair of ‘Explorer’ Sweet Pea flowers
Some gardening notes to self for next growing season:
1) Try other varieties. Renee’s Garden Seeds has an excellent selection of sweet pea varieties including container varieties.
2) Grow ‘Explorer’ in pots at deck level and the trailing varieties in the hanging baskets.
3) Follow Renee’s tips for success:
Sowing seeds directly into the garden
Starting seeds indoors and transplanting
Secrets to Sweet Pea Success
4) Grow more sweet peas and fewer nasturtiums. To make room for the sweet peas, I had to give my Mom 75% of the nasturtium seedlings I started.
5) I’m amending #4 to “Grow more sweet peas AND nasturtiums and share the surplus.”
6) Immerse myself in the literature on Lathyrus odoratus, especially The Sweet Pea Book by Graham Rice. The Google Books preview includes excerpts on dwarf sweet peas (page 27) and growing sweet peas in containers (page 31). Based on the preview and rave reviews, I added this “beautifully illustrated and poetically written” book to my wish list.
Happy Green Thumb Sunday, everyone. What adjectives and other flowery words do you use to describe your favourite garden plants? I’d love to know.
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I didn’t do any sweet peas this year. I love the smell of them.
This is one of those things I don’t know how I didn’t know – but I did not know how pretty these are!!! I have lots of land here, but now I want to grow these in baskets on my porch just because they are pretty! LOL! THanks for sharing – I have so mjuch to learn.
Sweet peas are my–my sister’s and my daughter’s favorite flower. We all grow them–but my sis is the most consistent with it. She has so many that she gives bouquets away for a couple of months. They bloom here in February and are gone by April.
Aiyana
Peppylady, Heather & Aiyana, good Monday morning and thank you for your comments.
I had no expectations but high hopes that the sweet peas would flourish and I’m thrilled they are doing so well. I think the cool Spring weather really helped. We haven’t had any truly hot days, yet.
Peppylady — my favourite of nature’s perfumes, too.
Heather, I do hope you grow some in containers near your front or back door. Nothing (IMHO) compares to the sight and scent of them and the closer you get to the blossom, the better.
Aiyana, how lovely to have enough for bouquets. At most, I have three flowers for a little bud vase. But you know, it’s enough for me.
so pretty!!!!
Thanks, Tabatha. I don’t have nearly as many flowers as you do in your garden so I try to really make the most of what blooms in mine. This means lots of photos…and probably more than a couple of posts about sweet peas.
Hi Elaine, I just checked out your other blog – you’re prolific!
Sweet peas are definitely sweeet. There is just something about their perfume that makes you want to snort them up like a drug. My favourite thing about them has to be the fact that the more you cut them, the better they bloom. Continuous bouquets throughout the season – yay!
Hi Andrea.
Oh dear, snorting sweet peas and throwing seed bombs. On what kind of path is gardening taking us?
very pretty flower!sweet peas is very beautiful flower,they have avery awsome smell.I like it very much.