Nasturtium
Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)
A vibrant edible flower with peppery leaves, trailing stems, and glowing summer colours 🌼🧡
🌿 Nasturtiums (Tropaeolum majus) are cheerful, fast‑growing annuals loved for their vivid flowers, rounded lily‑pad leaves, and generous edible harvest. Their warm oranges, reds, and yellows bring instant brightness to borders, containers, and vegetable gardens.
Both leaves and flowers have a distinctive peppery flavour, making nasturtiums a favourite in edible gardens and summer salads. They thrive in poor soils, attract pollinators, and are famously easy to grow — perfect for beginners, children, and wildlife‑friendly planting.
Nasturtiums offer a fresh, peppery, rocket‑like flavour with a floral edge.
• Flowers: colourful, mildly spicy garnish for salads, open sandwiches, and summer dishes
• Leaves: chopped into salads, pestos, herb butters, and savoury spreads
• Seed pods: harvested green and pickled as “poor man’s capers”
• Whole plant: excellent for edible borders and decorative plating
Flavour profile: peppery, bright, slightly floral — similar to rocket.
