Those leaves are wonderful with those blooms. I would love to grow this!

Terrific!!

The faces on these are fabulous! I just love the cheery color. Congratulations!

Thank you Jennifer, Vickie and Ronnie.

Yes it is a nasturtium, it is mixed Alaska dwarf, I loved this cultivar, it attracted lots of bees and the hummingbirds.

Ooooh! A dwarf variety! One of the reasons I shy away from growing nasturtiums is their size. This will be on my seed list too!

The variegated foliage gives the bloom a boost!

I love nasties but they always get aphids...and I mean always...

That is interesting, mine didn't get any aphids, not that I noticed anyway.

I even stopped growing them for two seasons and tried again this year and boom...I had four of them all with aphids. I let them go for awhile to enjoy some flowers then just cut them down

Interesting. I've had aphid issues at my current house. But they just stick to a few types of plants. Mostly my heliopsis and mums. They don't really seem to damage either, even when there are LOTS of them. One year they did harm my Honeysuckle. But I had ladybugs munching away so I did not do anything to treat for them.

I'm going to try the nasturtium. I'll keep an eye out for the aphids.

I hate those darn aphids, this year they totally ruined my delphiniums, first time that has happened.

That is odd about the aphids. I grow nasturtiums every year (because my mom loved them, called them "Little Nasties ), including this Alaska dwarf variety, and I've never seen an aphid on them. And I'd notice, too, because I like to pick the flowers and leaves for salads. I know there are aphids out there, because nearly every plant I bring indoors to try to overwinter shows up with aphids on it!

Woofie, I add them to my salads too, I really like the peppery flavor of the leaves.

Yup, versatile little plant. They look pretty in the garden, they look pretty in the salad bowl, and they taste good, too! They kind of remind me of radishes.

Hah! I did not know the leaves were edible. We used to use the blooms as toppers on salad. They are peppery too.

I only found out last year that the leaves were edible as well as the flowers. That gave me a happy face because I love the taste in salads, but didn't want to steal all the flowers from the garden.

The seeds are also editable, they can be dried and ground like pepper, I haven't tried that yet.

What a waste of seeds

Depends how may plants you grow, they are very prolific seed producers.

Seems to me that the seeds don't keep too long, so that could be a use for old seeds that are no longer viable. Maybe.