I have planted just a few sweet peas this year & this is the first one to flower. I love the smell of these pretty flowers but am not very good at growing them ! I think you are supposed to pinch out the side shoots like you do with tomatoes so that you get longer stems.The white splodge you can see in the back ground is the washing line with today's B&B sheets on, I tried to edit them out but failed !!
I am mightily impressed! Last year I had lovely ones (like this) and for some reason this year they have hardly grown at all! Very sad - they are so pretty and lovely scent! Enjoy!
This is really pretty Pat - I adore sweet peas. I grew them one year, but had not much luck either with the long stems. If I try again, must remember your advice.
Super shots - the sheets did not distract me I can see it would be a challenge to remove them. I find the content aware healing brush in photoshop CS5 can work really well but not always. Then it is a massive labour of love with no absolute guarantee of success.
Beautiful blossom against that soft blue sky! I absolutely love sweet peas, but have no luck at all growing them. As for the sheets on the line ~ what a wonderful background!
thank you for all your comments - very much appreciated!