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sweet pea

Any of several climbing plants of the genus Lathyrus of the pea family, especially the annual vine L. odoratus, native to Sicily and widely cultivated for its variously colored, fragrant flowers.

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sweet pea

(Plants) a climbing leguminous plant, Lathyrus odoratus, of S Europe, widely cultivated for its butterfly-shaped fragrant flowers of delicate pastel colours

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sweet′ pea`

a climbing plant, Lathyrus odoratus, of the legume family, having sweet-scented flowers.

[1725–35]

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sweet pea - climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel-colored flowers

Lathyrus odoratus, sweetpea

genus Lathyrus, Lathyrus - genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea

vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

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pisello odoroso dolce

sweet pea

n → pisello odoroso

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Luckily I had sown two great patches of sweetpeas which made me very happy all the summer, and then there were some sunflowers and a few hollyhocks under the south windows, with Madonna lilies in between.

The hollyhocks and lilies (now flourishing) are still under the south windows in a narrow border on the top of a grass slope, at the foot of which I have sown two long borders of sweetpeas facing the rose beds, so that my roses may have something almost as sweet as themselves to look at until the autumn, when everything is to make place for more tea-roses.

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Any spare moment I had throughout the summer, I would be making roses, orchids, peonies and sweetpeas, which cascaded down the side.

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Sweetpeas They can be resown immediately in seed drills if you want to expand the stock in the herb garden.

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Cut sweetpeas for the house, which will encourage further flowers.

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One pair of friends use llama poo as fertiliser, another couple sows according to the phases of the moon and chants over their sweetpeas. Where do they unearth these people?

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Tables were beautifully decorated with crystal vases, which were filled with bouquets of pink roses, hydrangeas, and sweetpeas.

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I must have chatted and helped make tea for at least 100 decent, gentle souls for whom an afternoon spent admiring sweetpeas, rosebeds, and my father's woodcarvings was a real treat.

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QI have a three metre-long bed of sweetpeas which I adore for their colour and perfume.

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Plant sweetpeas alongside climbing beans to encourage a better crop.

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Certainly, it would be British flowers; lots and lots would be gorgeous, like roses, delphinium and sweetpeas," Lycett added.

Royal florists fuel Prince William, Kate Middleton wedding reports

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