Nasturtium Plant. Rake the soil to a fine tilth and make some drills 20mm deep. Vibrant and handsome, fast grower and easy going, nasturtium (tropaeolum majus), is a popular annual plant that will both command attention in any landscape and reward you with weeks of blooms, from early summer until frost.
Did you know that the flowers of nasturniums have an unusual and refreshing fragrance? The perennial varieties are mostly winter/cold hardy, whereas the annuals have to be grown each year from seed.as well as being highly ornamental, nasturtium flowers and leaves give a crisp, peppery taste to salads, as well as some great colour. They also attract good bugs such as pollinators and hoverflies, a predator of common pests like aphids.
