Branching Out's Seeds and Sprouts

[P Suckling]

Here too (thanks for telling me about the post Decoy). Showing sweet pea Enigma which is cream with pinkish red edging that later turned more and more red. This photo is from last year, but I had exactly the same this year. Early flowers were cream, later ones almost solid red. At first I thought it was an inverse of the flower colour, hence the labelling on the photo, but it seems to be another mechanism that causes the change.

Branching out, I harvested seeds separately, by the way, and the seeds from the red flowers also started cream white and turned red later, just like the seeds from the cream white pods did.

 

[Branching Out]

Here too (thanks for telling me about the post Decoy). Showing sweet pea Enigma which is cream with pinkish red edging that later turned more and more red. This photo is from last year, but I had exactly the same this year. Early flowers were cream, later ones almost solid red. At first I thought it was an inverse of the flower colour, hence the labelling on the photo, but it seems to be another mechanism that causes the change.

Branching out, I harvested seeds separately, by the way, and the seeds from the red flowers also started cream white and turned red later, just like the seeds from the cream white pods did.

Thanks for sharing this-- it's a fascinating anomaly, and perhaps more common than one would think. Gorgeous blossoms on your sweet pea plant!

 

[Branching Out]

Finally got my nasturtiums from cuttings in the ground yesterday (the ones I mentioned in my June 26th post,) and a couple of them are already beginning to bloom in shades of yellow and orange. Not all of the cuttings took, but those that did have strong roots.

 

[Branching Out]

You know it's high summer when you start mulching with massive zucchinis!

 

[ducks4you]

SO jelly!! Btw, I have also direct seeding nasturiums and for their size they can spread to 4 ft diameters.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Nasturtiums are a fav annual to grow in the PNW. Once the soil warms up to 60 degrees it’s time to plant and boom they are fast a furious growers.
I have read the flowers can be eaten in salads or sugared on cakes. Never tried it .

 

[Dahlia]

Finally got my nasturtiums from cuttings in the ground yesterday (the ones I mentioned in my June 26th post,) and a couple of them are already beginning to bloom in shades of yellow and orange. Not all of the cuttings took, but those that did have strong roots.

Oh I love nasturtiums! They are such happy and cute flowers!