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Article: Plant sweet peas to bloom in spring, tra la
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- Oakland Tribune
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- September 24, 2005
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SO MANY things today ain't what they used to be.
This is not, however, the case with sweet peas.
Step into any garden where sweet peas are climbing up a fence and
you are instantly transported back to that afternoon you sat sipping
lemonade in grandma's back yard: the cascades of pinks and purples,
the heady scent, the bouquet you were allowed to carefully pick
because there were so many flowers.
"People think of them as an old-fashioned flower. They remember
their grandparents growing them," says Glenys Johnson, owner of
Enchanting Sweet Peas in Sebastopol, which sells seeds by mail order.
"They seem very fragile, but they are fairly tough."
In the mild-winter Bay Area, late September ...