Perennials: label says sun, but takes shade, 3 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Nasturtiums are fun, but there are different types and some need watching. I grew Mahogany Whirlybird for years at home. The flowers of that type are above the leaves ("Tip Top as well) and they look great - they clump. Here they are in the ground, and in the second picture, in a pot with tomatoes.

I grew those in the back and the trailing/climbing ones in the front of my new house. They're great, but make sure they don't take over the planet. They are capable of wiping out other plants. They took out a campanula Bernice and a thalictrum 'Black Stockings'! My fault - insufficient monitoring.

But they looked great, and they climbed my steps with NO training. And they lasted till frost. This was a seed mix I had bagged up in 1998. I kept harvesting my nasturtiums for many years and putting them in zip lock bags in the fridge. I would keep colors separate, but this is a very old mix from Thompson and Morgan. These pictures are from 2013, so the seeds are at least 15 years old..