Garden Nasturtium
(Common Nasturtium)
Tropaeolum majus. TROPAEOLACEAE.
Planting and Growing Garden Nasturtium
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow garden nasturtium in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of garden nasturtium
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for garden nasturtium
- Season of bloom and planting time for garden nasturtium
- When, how deep, and where to plant garden nasturtium
- How to plant garden nasturtium
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of garden nasturtium
- Landscape and container uses of garden nasturtium
- Comments about garden nasturtium and its features
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Growing Garden Nasturtium
Many cultivars of climbing, mounding, or trailing, succulent annual herbs, to 3 ft. (90 cm) tall and wide. Shiny, deep green, round, parasol-shaped leaves, to 3 in. (75 mm) wide.
Common cultivars include Tropaeolum majus ‘Alaska’, ‘Double Dwarf Jewel’, ‘Empress of India’, and ‘Whirlybird’.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many orange, pink, red, white, yellow, multicolored, deep-throated, edible, fragrant flowers, to 2‑1/2‑in. (63‑mm) wide, in summer–autumn. Double-flowered and dwarf cultivars available.
Best Climates
Self-seeding, zones 6–10.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained, sandy soil. Fertility: Rich–low. 6.5–7.0 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Spring in full to filtered sun, 8–12 in. (20–30 cm) apart, after frost hazard has passed.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep evenly moist. Avoid fertilizing. Deadhead spent flowers to prolong bloom. Stake tall cultivars. Propagate by seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for hanging baskets, borders, containers, edgings in cottage, formal, small-space gardens. Attracts birds, butterflies, hummingbirds. Invasive. Aphid, leaf miner and fusarium wilt susceptible.