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Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden’s Nasturtium Tom Thumb produces bright orange and yellow blooms nestled among round green leaves, adding vibrant color to your garden with this dwarf ornamental edible variety.
Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden’s Nasturtium Tom Thumb produces bright orange and yellow blooms nestled among round green leaves, adding vibrant color to your garden with this dwarf ornamental edible variety.
Vibrant red and yellow edible Nasturtium Tom Thumb flowers from Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden, with round green leaves, displayed in a glass vase on a wooden table against a blurred background.
A vibrant garden bed features Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden’s Nasturtium Tom Thumb, displaying bright orange, red, and yellow edible flowers with round green leaves, accented by a few blue blooms and lush green foliage in the background.
A yellow circle features a stylized black and white bee with "RHS PLANTS FOR POLLINATORS" in bold black letters—an ideal emblem for Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden's dwarf ornamental edible Nasturtium Tom Thumb seeds.
Nasturtium Tom Thumb edible flowers by Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden, with bright orange petals and round green leaves, glow in sunlight as a bee gathers nectar from one of the blooms.
Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden Nasturtium Tom Thumb seeds produce dense, vibrant orange blooms with round green leaves—some yellowing—in sunlight, creating a striking dwarf ornamental that's also edible and effective as a trap crop.
Vibrant orange Nasturtium Tom Thumb flowers from Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden, with round green leaves, bask in sunlight amidst a lush garden setting.
Nasturtium Tom Thumb seeds from Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden grow vibrant orange blooms and veined, round green leaves. This dwarf edible doubles as a trap crop for pests, adding color and contrast to your garden beds.
Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden’s Nasturtium Tom Thumb seeds grow compact, edible plants with lush green leaves and vivid orange blooms—ideal as a colorful trap crop for your vibrant garden.
A bee hovers above bright orange blooms grown from Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden’s Nasturtium Tom Thumb seeds, surrounded by lush green leaves in a sunlit garden.

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Selected by our team at Bishy Barnabees · Reg. No. 8067

35 seeds

Annual

Nasturtium Tom Thumb

The triple-threat cottage garden plant -- a compact Half-Hardy Annual producing fiery orange, scarlet, and yellow trumpet flowers from June to first frost; entirely edible (flowers, leaves, seeds pickled as capers); deliberately attracts blackfly and cabbage white away from vegetables as a trap crop; grows best in poor dry soil with no feeding (rich soil = leaves only, no flowers); direct sow only (2cm deep, no transplanting); large seeds ideal for children

Height 25cm-30cm
Spread 30cm
Spacing 30cm

Quantity

£2.30
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Growing guide

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Packaging Eco-friendly · compostable & recyclable
Destinations UK only

Every seed in our range has been chosen by the team at Salle Moor Hall Farm, Reepham, Norfolk — where we grow, dry and harvest flowers throughout the season. We select for performance, reliability and beauty in UK cottage garden conditions.

Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden Ltd · Defra/APHA Authorised Seed Merchant · Reg. No. 8067

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