Wordless Wednesday : Nasturtiums and Summer Showers
13 Wednesday Jul 2016
Posted in Self-seeding Plants
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13 Wednesday Jul 2016
Posted in Self-seeding Plants
Showers? We’ve been having torrential downpours and the barley crop around here is in a state of total collapse! Still I love your nasturtium. Do you eat them?
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Same here really, the hay meadows are flattened and probably only fit for silage if summer continues like this. Not what you’d expect in East Anglia though? The flowers are a little peppery, they’re good and look pretty in salads while the unripened seeds taste a bit like capers.
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Lovely! Mine were too scrofulous to stay!
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Oh, what a shame! Fingers crossed the blight which is endemic around here this year has not marred them (yet?).
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Good colours. Do you eat then?
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They are the infinitely varying results of pale yellow trailing ‘Moonlight’ having self-seeded many times over the years. We eat the flowers and seeds when freshest, as the hedge of them matures the leaves are only fit for cabbage white butterfly caterpillars.
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Our nastrsian is starting to send out its long runners. No flowers as winter. Big rain overnight and some flooding from NE so not cold. Snow chains on passes advised in the South Island. Skiers will be happy as wasn’t much snow on ski fields. We are to get a sw change up here but wont be as cold as South Island. We moan if drops below 13 degrees cent. !!
Ground saturated clay here!
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That’s interesting, Yvonne. I’ve noticed that in an especially mild winter they might flower through to the end of November and remain almost evergreen until hit by heavy frosts. As a hedge, the dead trailing stems look ethereal. Hope your winter treats you kindly.
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The nasturtiums speak for themselves on wordless Wednesday! Bright and cheerful!
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On a grey day they help make up for the lack of sunshine!
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Nasturtiums so simple and easy to grow and edible, they come up on their own in the garden each year now.
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Yes, exactly. They’re brilliant value, I haven’t sown a packet of new seed for years.
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