What's strange about this....

Today, I saw a nasturtium thriving in my garden. It looks like it has at least a couple of months worth of growth on it.

 

hi clueless. i have some nasturtiums growing aswell it must be the warmer temperatures. regards nijinski

 

I spread some Virginia Stock seed around shrubs on the front lawn last year . A couple of these have flowered all through winter, pretty little flowers. Hopefully we are past winters worst now although we can still have a snow storm thrown at us in March.
Yesterday was the first day of meteorological spring , in my book spring starts on the 21st of March.

 

I got one still alive too, only small leaves on it mind.

 

We've got a Pink Campion in flower

 

Spring definitely starts March 1st, otherwise we'd have to wait till June 21st for summer to begin. and that can't be right.

 

It's Spring!

 

True, but it shouldn't be spring enough for nasturtium yet.

 

I'd do something about those Thieves if I were you FC

 

Walked past a lawn on Friday with daisies on it ....................

 

of all the nasturtiums we had last year somehow one tough cookie managed to survive the winter, it looks like its been dragged through a hedge backwards (half a dozen times) but hey it alive ain't it. pity they all couldn't be that hardy

 

I'm trying to breed a hardy one. Every year, I get survivors later and later into winter. I've got one this year but I think winter was unusually mild, so I don't think I've quite achieved it yet, but each year I collect the seeds from the toughest ones.

I can't help but wonder though, if I ever achieve it, if I'll be creating a monster. I suspect nasturtium could become invasive if it wasn't for that one constant, winter annihilation, that keeps it under control.