Climbing fences, trailing along the ground, Everlasting Peas brighten ditches and roadsides. Spring through late summer, Everlasting or Perennial Peas flower constantly and are more lightly perfumed than their cultivated cousin the Sweet Pea. Not a native plant to the U.S., it was brought here as an ornamental flower from Europe. I enjoy their bright pop of color (white, pink or fuchsia) along city and rural roadways.
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Sad to hear it is often found in ditches.
Such a soft photo of a very vibrant color. Lovely.
beautiful. i bet it had a nice scent too. great view. (:
beautiful! i just love, love, love sweet peas! when i was a kid, we’d take this short cut, a little grassy alley way that ran behind two rows of houses and there were always sweet peas growing wild along the fences.
gorgeous!!!! my mothers most favorite color. she had dresses and blouse this color, even a pair of shoes.
They do provide a nice splash of colour along those ditches!!
simply gorgeous
really beautiful, madge.
Such lovely detail in your photo, Madge. I love sweet peas, too. That was one of the little nick-names my Dad called my Mom! They are so pretty in a vase, too. xx
Our wild peas out here are mostly purple, perhaps to compete with the lavender fields? And they certainly aren’t as gorgeous and splashy as your shot here! I’m waiting for my sweet peas to bloom. Really love them, especially their scent.
I hope you’ve recovered from your last medical “to-do” and are getting on to having a good summer.
Thanks Kay, well actually my mouth is still quite sore, stitches (5 of them) are still in, but it is getting better… :-)
Oh my! This is so pretty.
This is a beautiful shot…
Love to think about what ‘once was’ when we see them alongside the road
Beautiful!
Lovely photo, Madge. Great info, too. I saw some of these Monday on the way to Vista House in the Columbia River Gorge. I stopped the car and pointed the camera through the passenger side window to try to get a photo. No where near the quality of yours, honey, but when I saw yours, I immediately looked at mine to see if I had the same flower, and I did. Thanks for being a great reference photographer!
I love how you got so much detail in the petals in this shot!
Very beautiful photo!
Beautiful image, Madge. I don’t remember seeing them around here. I will have to start looking.
That’s gorgeous!
Gorgeous!
A lovely flower!
Are these the same as what some of us call sweet peas? That’s color is just divine!
What a divine image, Madge!!
This is lovely!
PS — I have a Droid now — my gave it to me as he had an extra. :)
Beautiful! One of my favorite flowers…
Super nice pictures :)
Hanne Bente
So delicate and lovely!