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[SHADEGARDENS] Perennial Sweet Peas

My Mother was given perennial sweet peas by a friend, and she planted them.
According to her, no enemy had ever done her garden so much harm. They grew
the length of the garden, and there  seemed no way to get rid of them.
Certainly digging did not work.

Nancy

>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!

Nancy Swell <swell@erols.com>
Richmond VA   Zone 7 --- colder than Raleigh and Norfolk, warmer than
Baltimore and Blacksburg
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