A spectacular trailing nasturtium for all your baskets and patio containers, where it will produce a colourful cascade of vibrant 'dayglow' blooms throughout the summer. Lovely mixed with other hanging basket plants. HA - Hardy annual.
Culinary information: The peppery flavour of the leaves and colourful flowers will enrich salads and the unripe seeds can used like capers – delicious combined with cream cheese or butter in canapés. For more details about edible flowers.
Growing Information
Sow March-June outdoors, flowers June-September. Very easily grown, versatile plants, flowering freely throughout the summer. Happiest in free-draining soil in sunny positions, they can be used to cover banks, fences and hedges, provide colour in beds, borders and pots and trail from hanging baskets.
Sowing Information
Sow the seed thinly direct into finely raked, moist, warm, weed free soil where the plants are to flower 13mm ( 1?2") deep. Germination normally takes 10-14 days. As the seedlings develop thin to achieve a final spacing of 25cm (10"). Alternatively, for hanging baskets and containers sow on a windowsill or in a greenhouse at approx. 13-18°C (55-65°F) 3 or 4 seeds to a 7.5cm (3") pot. Plant out after careful acclimatisation to outside conditions.
A spectacular trailing nasturtium for all your baskets and patio containers, where it will produce a colourful cascade of vibrant 'dayglow' blooms throughout the summer. Lovely mixed with other hanging basket plants. HA - Hardy annual.
Culinary information: The peppery flavour of the leaves and colourful flowers will enrich salads and the unripe seeds can used like capers – delicious combined with cream cheese or butter in canapés. For more details about edible flowers.
Growing Information
Sow March-June outdoors, flowers June-September. Very easily grown, versatile plants, flowering freely throughout the summer. Happiest in free-draining soil in sunny positions, they can be used to cover banks, fences and hedges, provide colour in beds, borders and pots and trail from hanging baskets.
Sowing Information
Sow the seed thinly direct into finely raked, moist, warm, weed free soil where the plants are to flower 13mm ( 1?2") deep. Germination normally takes 10-14 days. As the seedlings develop thin to achieve a final spacing of 25cm (10"). Alternatively, for hanging baskets and containers sow on a windowsill or in a greenhouse at approx. 13-18°C (55-65°F) 3 or 4 seeds to a 7.5cm (3") pot. Plant out after careful acclimatisation to outside conditions.