Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Contest to be!! Spring is Here, Yahoo!!!, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Sherry, I'll check to see if I have some Nasturtium seeds that I can send you. Every year, they are beautiful in spring, and then by summer, they are covered in aphids. If you hose off the aphids with a spray of water, the nasturtiums end up looking beat up so I usually pull them all up in summer. The few seeds that I get, I usually leave where they are and they come back the following spring. I do like the variegated ones because, as GardenGuyKin said, they remain small. When I was growing the regular Nasturtiums they took over everything and eventually had to go. The regular kind got aphids really bad too. Here is some from last year: