The foliage is blue-green rather than pea-green of 'normal' varieties.
Posted on 02/17/2017 6:03:17 PM PST by greeneyes
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Oddly, I got a 12pk with 3 nasturtiums in each cell at the farmers’ market two weeks ago which were intended to sell as microgreens you clip and sprinkle your salad with. I chose to plant them at 1/10th the cost of nursery Nasturtiums. I’ve had horrible luck germinating them over the years, and had given up.
The variegated Alaska variety hates me; I bought an Empress of India (blood red blooms) that’s doing great.
My neighbor threw the remains of a salad over her deck that had Nasturtium blooms in it. They germinated and covered the rocky hill slope garden, she asked me what are those plants? Talk about grrrrrrrr. I can’t get one from seed but she did, unknowingly.
The foliage is blue-green rather than pea-green of 'normal' varieties.
LOL. That’s the breaks sometimes. Thanks for the beautiful picture. Really pretty plant.
Beautiful. We have a 5 pot pole hanger that those would do great with...
But again, my neighbor unwittingly, accidentally grew them in a semi-shady, sloping, entirely unattended rock garden beneath her deck. Full TX sun is quite different from full sun elsewhere, maybe that's where I'm going wrong.
Once they go to seed you never get rid of them for example my compost piles…
So you can grow them too, without even trying?
They are a weed in my garden. I think I have posted a couple of photos over the years
Those are the climbing variety, rather rare. What’s the yellow beds, coreopsis? What type of Iris in the foreground, and are those Mandevilla to the right of the Nasturtiums? Wish you were my neighbor, I’d be all over that stuff.....
Oh, yes, single-bloom marigolds, I see now. I see the corn stalk shadows in the SE of the photo, too :)
~waving~
I am wore out from politickin’
Got blossoms all over last years tomato and pepper plants. My lemon has dozens of blossoms and I took it out on the deck along with my hibiscus and bouganvilla last week. The boug got frostbit, not sure which night but it’s back inside and recovering. Meanwhile that lemon tree has little lemons from pollination before I brought it in for the winter and now has a zillion more blooms with bees all over it. Gonna have to cull when I revive. Had some much needed rain the day before I left for Austin. Haven’t checked my rain barrels but they were low. Hopefully full again.
We got enough snow in the one day to totally cover my International Harvester Truck (and the tiller.) It is Friday the 18th and we are getting some semblance of normalcy after the Nor’easter that came in this past Sunday (I am in Waterville , Maine.) Our days will start getting above freezing so as to initiate the melt off and shrink the huge snowbanks around town which makes driving very stressful. i will look forward to the safety and tranquility of weeding this year...but it was a dry snow that fell but just a lot of it. For my house we got 2 feet on top of the 12-16 inches that were on the ground already...Anyway I do know that spring is just around the corner and all in all not a bad winter so far ...SNOWY but not too bad.
By 77 the warming trend had already started; by 2006 we were back to about 7-10 years into another cooling trend. By 2024/8 we will be warming again.
Bearded Iris in the near bed and a rose to the right of the nasturtiums. Blueberries in the cage to the right of the wheelbarrow. The house next door is for rent and we need a garden helper...
I’m worn out from same. LOL Been staying up too late reading an following up on WikiLeaks stuff. Also watching the Where is Eric Braverman on you tube put out by George Webb.
The yellow and orange flowers are a form of Marigolds...
[family and friends shocked as txhurl throws it *all* away and runs off to hermit garden for the Benders, wherever that is]
More flower porn. last one is a Red Shafted Flicker…
I was discussing our proposed green house with Barb. I am suggesting a heat storage in the ground system. More complex, but much more energy efficient. What with the possible mini ice age as a result of global warming, this is looking to be a wise investment.
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