Nasturtium 'Alaska'

Today's the day …………………….. to introduce

Meet a new plant for me this year - Nasturtium 'Alaska'.

It's very quick-growing, with a mixed colour cascade of flowers – cream, yellow orange and this full-bodied red.  It is brilliant for picking to make a small table arrangement - and excellent at the centre of a flower bed to bring in lots of good insects (ladybirds, lacewings, hoverflies and bees) to control the bad.  Plant it in the veg patch as a companion plant to repel white fly and attract black fly away from cabbages and broad beans.

It has lovely cream-dappled, variegated leaves that look great in a salad - as well as the flowers - and have an intense flavour reminiscent of capers………………...