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nasturtium

Any of a group of plants that includes watercress (N. officinale), a perennial aquatic plant of Europe and Asia, grown as a salad crop. Belonging to a different family altogether, the South American trailing nasturtiums include the cultivated species T. majus, with orange, scarlet, or yellow flowers, and T. minus, which has smaller flowers. (Genus Nasturtium, family Cruciferae; South American genus Tropaeolum, family Tropaeolaceae.)
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Byline: Graham Porter IF YOU have ever seen the perennial cup and saucer flower, Cobaea scandens, in its full summer glory or an old conifer covered in the scarlet red flowers of the Flame Creeper, Tropaeolum speciosum, you will know that the world of summer flowering garden climbers goes way beyond the limited vision of clematis and the climbing rose.
The dizzy heights of summertime climbers; GARDENING Tips and common ... by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Gladioli and other summer-flowering corms such as ixias and sparaxis, tubers of Tropaeolum tuberosum and half-hardy summer-flowering bulbs including tigridias and chincherinchees should be lifted in autumn, as soon as the foliage has been blackened by frost.
gardening by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Gladioli and other summer-flowering corms such as ixias and sparaxis, tubers of tropaeolum tuberosum and half-hardy summer-flowering bulbs including tigridias and chincherinchees, should be lifted in autumn when the foliage has been blackened by frost.
How to give your bulbs a lift for winter; gardening by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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