With vining stems that have an unusual but attractive rounded leaf, as well as orange, pink, red or yellow blooms, who wouldn't enjoy the sight of a nasturtium plant cascading over the edge of a pot?

Mostly I remember the distinctive spicy smell, and how nasturtiums spilled out of every window box, pot and flower bed in my mother’s garden by midsummer. You can grow vining, rambling ...

Nasturtiums are real overachievers in both ... grow into a small bush shape not much more than a foot tall. The larger vining type will easily reach ten feet or more in length and are very useful ...

Fewer people, however, are aware of the interesting climbing nasturtium vines. One of the interesting varieties is named after the island it hails from. Canary vine (Tropaeolum peregrinum ...

Sweet pea plants require frequent irrigation. Nasturtium plants (Tropaeolem majus) are also offered as bush or vining types with aromataic single or double flowers in a range of colors.

The garden nasturtiums we grow today are mainly from the two species native to Peru — Tropaeolum minus, a semi-trailing vine, and the taller, more vigorous and more popular Tropaeolum majus ...

I spoke with Rumbley to get some behind-the-scenes intel on what it takes to get the nasturtiums from seed to vine. In June, Rumbley’s team starts planting nasturtium seeds in the Gardner’s ...

Each year, the nasturtium seedlings are started in June ... to this one,” one team member joked as they helped hoist a vine up the stairs. Once upstairs, the vines were set down at short tables ...

The nasturtiums only bloom for about three weeks, so it’s a special time to catch them flourishing. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum horticulturalists and volunteers pick a vine of nasturtiums to ...

Moonlight is a vining type that sports soft yellow blooms. Another trailing type, Spitfire, displays fiery orange blossoms. Eating nasturtiums The leaves and flowers of nasturtiums are edible.