Nasturtium 'Margaret Long'

Rather a lot of inaccurate information here. Yes, it is a sport of Hermine Grashof. Miss Long spotted it in the 1930s when she was traini...Read Moreng as a Lady Gardener in the Dublin Botanic Gardens and grew it on in her mother's garden. She gave me my plant in the 1980s and it is from this plant that modern cultivars are descended, via a cutting I gave a friend who passed it on to Charles Nelson at the Botanic gardens. It is a trailing type so the stems can get a yard or so long, but being a double is not as vigorous as the usual climbing forms of T. majus. It has plain leaves, not variegated. Propagation is by tip cuttings and one should always take a few at the end of summer because the adult plant has a tendency to die off during the winter, even if kept in a light, frost free place. During the late spring and early summer when it is growing most vigorously tip cuttings will root in a glass of water, but in early fall one is best planting into a free draining compost and covering.

According Annie's Annuals this is a apricot colored double Nasturtium that first appeared as a sport of the double red Nasturtium-Hermine...Read More Grashof’. Growing in the garden of Margaret Long’s mother near Dublin, Ireland in the 1970’s. The blooms, 2” across are well displayed above the bright green leaves and bloom quite generously from late Spring thru Fall. In full sun it makes a nice dense mound 12” tall and 30” across. In frost free zones it's a perennial, otherwise it is annual.
I add the spicy foliage, flowers and young seedpods of Nasturtium in my salad.