Picture: close up view of the inside of an orange nasturtium flower.
Nasturtiums are one my favorite flowering vines. I love how cheery the blossoms look as they tumble over fences and other garden spaces. And fortunately they aren't as invasive as morning glory or trumpet vine. :)
4/09/2007
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Awesome. I love how this photo makes it seem like we're being privy to a secret. I just took some pics of nasturtiums a while ago and have been excited about uploading them to flickr. They are also one of my favorites. Love their cheery colors, their spirited-ness, and especially love their leaves. I'll have to get those photos up soon. :)
I love, love, love nasturtiums. Their scent is woven with some of my favorite memories of being young and outdoors because they were lavishly planted in many rambling, tumbledown-style gardens around the older Spanish homes in the Southern California city where I grew up. I catch that scent and am taken back every time to certain quiet afternoons in the sun, bike riding or walking or just lying on part of some vast lawn of my junior high reading something delicious and absorbing, to an overall feeling of richness and pleasure.
I plant as many as I can here every summer, as many kinds as I can, but when they are inevitably killed by frost, it also breaks my heart every fall. For some reason I have the idea that they grew as perennials back home, but I was not much of a gardener back then and may just have been unaware of their natural cycles.
I absolutely adore nasturtiums, too. They grew so beautifully in the long, cool summers in Alaska where I spent my teenage years. And they are peppery-green YUMMY, too!
Isn't it crazy that Alaska has nicer summers than Massachusetts? It's true, though. And the gardens are gorgeous.
I've heard amazing things about Alaskan summers. I hope to see one myself someday. :)
I fell in love with nasturtiums when I first moved to Orange County. I saw all these darling cottages around Balboa with wooden fences and neon-bright nasturtiums growing wildly. Fell in love!
I've never had much success in growing my own. Isn't that weird? I think it's because my gopher-nemesis has a fondness for them so they can't last long 'round my garden. That said, I bought yet another packet of nasturtium seeds this year and I will try again!
This particular blossom in my photo was from a neighbor's garden (yes, I am a flower-photo poacher).
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