Nasturtium Lady Bird Mix – 5 Seeds
(Tropaeolum minus)
R30.00
Nasturtium Lady Bird Mix produces gold, cream, and rose flowers with distinct contrasting red spots or blotches.
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🌼 Flower Quick Facts
Flower Info
- 🌸 Flower Color: Bicolor, Cream, Gold, Rose
- 🦋 Pollinator Method: Attracts Bees, Attracts Hoverflies, Attracts Hummingbirds, Attracts Lacewings, Attracts Ladybirds, Attracts Moths, Self-pollinating
Medicinal Info
- 🌿 Medicinal Part: Flower, Leaf, Pods
- 🥣 Herbal Preparation: Extract / Tincture, Infusion / Tea, Juice
- ⚕️ Healing System: American Traditional Medicine, European Traditional Medicine, South American Traditional Medicine
Culinary Info
- 🍽️ Culinary Use: Caper Substitute, Chive Substitute, Egg Dishes, Garnish, Oils / Vinegars, Pickling, Salads, Stir-frying, Wrapping
- 🥗 Edible Part: Flower, Leaf, Seed Pods, Stem
- 😋 Flavor Profile: Peppery
Growth Traits
- 🌱 Life Cycle: Annual
- 🌾 Plant Type: Herbaceous Annual
- 🪴 Growth Habit: Compact, Trailing
Growing Requirements
- 🌞 Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Shade
- 💧 Water Needs: Avoid Overwatering, Moderate Water
- ☀️ Growing Conditions: Drought Tolerant, Frost Sensitive
- 🟤 Soil Preference: Moderately Fertile, Poor
Nasturtium Lady Bird Mix (Tropaeolum minus) produces gold, cream, and rose flowers with distinct contrasting red spots or blotches. It has a compact, dwarf, and mounding growth habit. All parts of the plant are edible. The flowers make a colorful addition to a leafy salad. Perfect for borders, patio containers, hanging baskets, and salads.
Medicinal Uses: Nasturtium is mostly known as an expectorant and disinfectant. Its antibacterial, anti-fungicide and antibiotic properties make it an amazing plant to help relieve infections, both internally as externally, as in disinfecting wounds and cuts. Its high content of vitamin C together with other phytonutrients make it a good herb to treat scurvy.
Nasturtium clears out mucous conditions, which combined with its antibiotic properties allows it to be effectively used to treat bronchitis, respiratory infections and to relieve chest conditions in general.
It is also acclaimed for its healing work in ailments of the urinary tract and as depurative.
Growing Nasturtium Lady Bird Mix:
Indoor Sowing: Not Recommended.
Direct Sowing: Spring and Summer.
- Nasturtiums do not transplant well, therefore indoor sowing is not recommended.
- They grow best in full sun or light shade in average soil.
- They can be direct sown in the garden.
- Soak seeds in water overnight.
- Then sow the seeds 8-15 cm apart and 1cm deep, in well-draining, moist soil.
- Keep soil moist until germination.
- Plants grow best in full sun or light shade in average soil.
- They combine well with other plants in mixed containers.
- Heavy feeding and too much water increases foliage growth at the expense of flowers.
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