Capucine does not fail to disappoint - it is actually a blood-red orange flower, more properly called nasturtium in English. From Wordnik.com. [TheGloss] Reference
To make it even more confusing, the plant commonly known as nasturtium is not a member of the genus nasturtium; they’re not even related. From Wordnik.com. [Zantedeschia elliottiana - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A small handful (perhaps 12), young edible flowers, such as nasturtium. From Wordnik.com. [Ottaway Online Editors] Reference
Sandwiches, herb and cheese, 5 lettuce and nasturtium, 10. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
Not a nasturtium -- those already smell like unwashed feet. From Wordnik.com. [Heartfire]
Aphids can be a problem on both plants, especially the nasturtium. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Not-so-nasty nasturtium] Reference
Other flowers may be used in the same way; for instance, nasturtium. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
The adventurous spirits taste edible blossoms -- pansies, nasturtium. From Wordnik.com. [Liz Neumark: Michelle Obama's Fresh Food Bail Out] Reference
Phyllis had planted mignonette and nasturtium and Virginia Stock in hers. From Wordnik.com. [The Railway Children] Reference
This isn't an issue if you start the nasturtium from seed, which I recommend. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Not-so-nasty nasturtium] Reference
An old dory filled with geranium and nasturtium brightened the centre of the yard. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
Elizabeth planted a border of nasturtium, sunflower and zinnia along her sidewalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Climbing nasturtium seeds were dropped into this furrow at distances of every four inches. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Put the sliced cucumber into a salad dish, and garnish it with nasturtium leaves and flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes] Reference
Suitable garden vines for study are climbing nasturtium, scarlet runner bean, and Japanese hop. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
TBC across a vast fielder and over a wallaby, the others around about by a nasturtium roadblock. From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
Teach one or two lessons on wild flowers, similar to the lessons illustrated for the nasturtium. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Hmmm. "Hot smoked Bath chap, summer truffle, pickled pullet egg, nasturtium salad," read the menu. From Wordnik.com. [Restaurant: The Pump House, Bristol] Reference
There was just a murmur of bees going in and out the brilliant little porches of nasturtium flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
We also had a nasturtium which died about three years ago in the drought - that has returned as well. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference
Flowers suitable for lessons in Form II are nasturtium, larkspur, snap-dragon, morning-glory, and sweet-pea. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Somewhere she had learned that steeping nasturtium flowers in the bathwater invited a visit from your guardian angel. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
(I like to garnish the plates with ruby-throated nasturtium blossoms from the garden ... makes it even more beautiful!). From Wordnik.com. [Neil Zevnik: Preventive Noshing: Five Favorite Foods] Reference
Teacher and pupils visit the nasturtium bed, where the flowers stand up boldly, surrounded by the shield-shaped leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The nasturtium was also taken into service in the tenth or eleventh century for the same purpose, and is classed with herbs. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
Monet went nuts over nasturtium, but his garden climate in northern France was better suited to their cultivation than ours. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Not-so-nasty nasturtium] Reference
As relish to their bread these young men have whatever they may kill in the chase, or failing that, nasturtium like the boys. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
The buds of broom pickled in the same manner, or the berries of the nasturtium, an American annual plant, with pungent fruit. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
He is digging up the earth in his green boxes, and carefully sowing the seeds of the scarlet nasturtium, convolvulus, and sweet-pea. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To these we may add, if we take herbs in the Scriptural sense, nasturtium, and that toothsome esculent, the onion, as well as lettuce. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
Make a filling of two-thirds nasturtium blossoms, one third leaves, lay on buttered bread, with buttered bread on top, sandwich style. From Wordnik.com. [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference
This relative of the nasturtium has traditionally been used as an herbal remedy for hot flashes, headaches, canker sores, and even gout. From Wordnik.com. [One For The Table: Stalking Wild Watercress] Reference
She and Phil walked around to the front of the house again, and down the nasturtium-bordered path that led from the porch to the street. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Class lessons based on a flowering garden plant, as pansy, aster, nasturtium; study of a field plant, as buttercup, goldenrod, dandelion. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Fourteen popular varieties of lavender are being tested along with other popular plants including geraniums, nasturtium, dahlia and borage. From Wordnik.com. [Urban bees fare better due to varied diet, research reveals] Reference
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