Our gardening expert on how to add 50 shades of tropical to your garden
Ah, the simple joy of nasturtiums: surely no one has ever failed with them, with their easygoing nature, and their relentless desire to flower their socks off, all for the price of a packet of seeds. They can be dismissed as ordinary, but if you want to cover up something unsightly or just spend a summer cheered by their frilly flowers, now is the time to sow them.
Nasturtiums belong to the genus Tropaeolum found in South America. The two most popular species – the semi-trailing bush, orange flowering T. minus and the taller, sprawling, red flowering T. majus – come from Peru, brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadors and Dutch explorers respectively. They did a seed swap and the result is a smorgasbord of tropical colours in between.
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