![\"Wild](\"http:\/\/wp.macfusion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/lathyrus-latifolius-perennial-sweet-pea.jpg\" "\\"lathyrus-latifolius-perennial-sweet-pea\\"")
Wild Sweet Pea (Lathyrus latifolia)<\/p><\/div>\n
Recently both Fine Gardening<\/a> and Margaret at A Way to Garden<\/a> mentioned the attractive attributes of Lathyrus vernus for Spring flowers (that’s the vernus part of the name :)). \u00a0I immediately amended my order to Seneca Hill Perennials<\/a> to include this charming little member of the Legume family. \u00a0In addition to the appealing descriptions of L. vernus, I was attracted because of the positive experience we’ve had with a related plant, the Wild or Perennial Sweet Pea (Lathyrus latifolius). \u00a0You can often see the Perennial Sweet Pea growing along roadsides next to cultivated fields throughout a good part of the U.S. \u00a0Just keep your eye peeled for startlingly pink\/white colors that seem as though someone mistakenly put some Garden Sweet Peas in a very unusual location. \u00a0Unlike the Garden Sweet Pea, they have a very long season and for us they are quite reliable, returning year after year. \u00a0In the right location, they will compete for their space with even the strongest growing companions. \u00a0In our case I put one plant on a bank filled with weeds along with seeds of Crownvetch. \u00a0Both the Pea and the Crownvetch have gradually taken over most of the bank, much to the my pleasure. \u00a0Being a Legume it also returns nitrogen to the soil for the long term as an added benefit. \u00a0The flowers provide very nice cuttings although they don’t have the traditional Sweet Pea fragrance. \u00a0I wouldn’t plant L. latifolius in a standard garden location as it is very vigorous but for the right location this is a great plant to have.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Perennial Sweet Pea (white to pink)<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Perennial Sweet Pea with Crownvetch<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Recently both Fine Gardening and Margaret at A Way to Garden mentioned the attractive attributes of Lathyrus vernus for Spring flowers (that’s the vernus part of the name :)). \u00a0I immediately amended my order to Seneca Hill Perennials to include this charming little member of the Legume family. \u00a0In addition to the appealing descriptions of L. vernus, I was attracted because of the positive experience we’ve had with a related plant, the Wild or Perennial Sweet Pea (Lathyrus latifolius). \u00a0You can often see the Perennial Sweet Pea growing along roadsides next to cultivated fields throughout a good part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[38,42,10],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-sources","tag-flowers","tag-sources","tag-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Perennial](\"http:\/\/wp.macfusion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/perennial-sweet-pea-on-bank.jpg\" "\\"perennial-sweet-pea-on-bank\\"")
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