Nasturtium – Cherries Jubilee (Heirloom) – Tropacolum majus Annual – These vibrant cherry-rose colored nasturtiums are a special treat in the garden. Cherries Jubilee’s soft, lipstick-colored flowers shade from light to deep rosy-red, a very unique hue for nasturtiums. These delicious blossoms glow in profusion above a sea of highly ornamental blue-green, lily pad-shaped leaves. The free-flowering plants have a mounding habit, perfect to fill and soften garden beds or corners, cover bare spots, or cascade gracefully from patio pots or hanging baskets.
Variety Details
Botanical name:Tropacolum majus
Plant type: Tender Annual
Growth habit: Low Growing
Crop category: Flower seed
Flower character: Soil & Water: Grow in any well-drained garden soil.
Recorded feature: Container Compatible
Product format: Seed packet
Sowing & Growing
Soil Temperature: above 50°F
Planting Depth: 1″
Germination: 19-12 Days
Height At Maturity: 12″
Sun/Shade: Full to Partial Sun
Spacing After Thinning: 10″
Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for ‘Cherries Jubilee’ Mounding Nasturtium 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.
Do not allow plants to dry out during germination or bloom season.
Place ‘Cherries Jubilee’ Mounding Nasturtium 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.
