Nasturtium 'Alaska'
- Loved by Garden Birds
- Loved by Pollinators
- Perfect for Pots
- Self-sows
- Good for Cutting
- Scented
Very quick growing, with a mixed colour cascade of flowers – cream, yellow, orange and red
This variety is more interesting than many, with lovely cream dappled, variegated leaves that look great in a salad as well as the flowers.
Plant it in the veg patch as a companion plant to repel white fly and attract black fly away from cabbages and broad beans. It has an intense flavour reminiscent of capers.
Nasturtiums have a strong flavour and all parts of the plant are edible. You can use the young leaves and flowers in salads, and, as the plants go over, the seed heads can be used wherever you might use capers, too.
- Loved by Garden Birds
- Loved by Pollinators
- Perfect for Pots
- Self-sows
- Good for Cutting
- Scented
Product details
- Type
- Half-Hardy Annual
- Position
- Container Garden
- Soil
- Broad Tolerance
- Flowers
- June - October, 10-12 weeks from sowing
- Height
- 30cm (12in)
- Common name
- Nasturtium
- Moisture
- Moist but Well-drained
- Aspect
- Full Sun
- Spread
- 30cm (12in)
- Cultivation
- Sow 2cm deep indoors March-April and plant out after last frosts, or sow direct May-July, two seeds per station, 30cm apart, and thin to one. Semi-trailing habit.
Care Tips
Once established, nasturtiums need very little attention. If you feed them you will gain leaf at the expense of flowers, and too much watering will give the same result.
Flowering Time
June - October, 10-12 weeks from sowing
