Little Firebirds Hanging Basket Nasturtiums Flower Seeds

Nasturtium - Little Firebirds - Tropacolum majus Annual - This beautiful new trailing nasturtium offers a showy cascade of color suited to hanging baskets, window boxes or containers of any size. Firebird's deep burgundy, warm pumpkin and rich coral colored blossoms float in striking contrast over lovely variegated lily-pad shaped leaves. Use these showy nasturtiums to ignite your patio or walkway with color all summer long. Firebird's edible blossoms taste like watercress with a hint of honey and make tasty and colorful additions to salads and seafood.

Variety Details

• Botanical name: Tropacolum majus
• Plant type: Tender Annual
• Growth habit: Weeping
• Crop category: Flower seed
• Flower character: Annual - This beautiful new trailing nasturtium offers a showy cascade of color suited to hanging baskets, window boxes or containers of any size.
• Recorded feature: Container Compatible
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: 1"
• Germination: 9-12 Days
• Height At Maturity: 8-10"
• Sun/Shade: Full to Partial Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 10"

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Little Firebirds Hanging Basket Nasturtiums Flower and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.

Place Little Firebirds Hanging Basket Nasturtiums Flower where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.

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