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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] any hope for my perennial pea seeds?

I have a couple perennial sweet pea vines in my shade garden -- they grow on
the chain-link fence -- and I've never had a problem with them growing into
any of the plants growing along the fence.  Sweet peas are sun-lovers, and in
a sunny location they are most certainly rampant, but mine are only hit by
actual sunshine for no more than two hours a day even at the height of summer.
Of course, the number of blooms is subsequently reduced.

Actually, knowing that sweet peas are sun-lovers I would never have
intentionally planted them where they are in such a shady spot, but they
"volunteered."  The nearby trees were once much, much smaller, too, so I
imagine that as the shade thickens the sweet peas will dwindle and eventually
give up.  I may, though, dig them up and move them before then; I have a
friend who lives out in the country who can't seem to get sweet peas started!

Dean Sliger
Ferndale, MI
Zone 6B
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