PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Nasturtium, Single Mix
(Tropaeolum majus)
Single Mixed Nasturtium is a larger, trailing Nasturtium that can get up to 8-10 feet in length.
The single flowers come in a mix of gold, orange, red and yellow. Flowers are edible and have a tangy, pepper taste.
Try them in salads or stuffed with a cream cheese filling.
Also makes a colorful garnish. Bumble bees love the flowers.
Hummingbird Attractor
Because their nectar is exceptionally sweet (sucrose rather than fructose or glucose, and very concentrated), the flowers are large and in the yellow-red spectrum, nasturtiums are attractive to hummingbirds. Their long tongues and the nasturtiums' long nectar-rich spurs evolved together.
Butterfly Host Plant
Nasturtiums are butterfly host plants, attractive to many varieties as places to lay their eggs. Butterflies will lay their next brood's eggs often on the underside of nasturtium leaves, but sometimes on the top, hopefully hidden from predators
Deer Resistant
Nasturtium (Tropaeolum species)
Everyone loves nasturtiums, and having them on a list of deer-resistant annuals is a must. Their round, succulent leaves and colorful flowers fill the garden like few other plants can. Trailing varieties creep along the ground, while bush-forming varieties stay more compact.
Edible, Flower Seeds for Beds and Borders
Nasturtiums are a beautiful flowering plant that is easy to grow and wonderful to cook with. The whole plant is edible, from the flowers to the leaves and is packed full of flavour and beneficial vitamins and minerals.
Attracts Pollinators
Nasturtiums are plants that are often used as trap crops for attracting aphids or squash bugs. Nasturtium companion plants can draw such pests away from vegetable plants like tomato and squash. They also attract good bugs such as pollinators and hoverflies, a predator of common pests like aphids.