Peach Melba is a charming dwarf nasturtium named after the classic vanilla ice cream and raspberry dessert it visually resembles. The semi-double blossoms emerge a soft creamy primrose yellow with deep raspberry-red spots and streaks radiating from the throat, looking exactly like drops of raspberry sauce drizzled over fresh peaches. Set against rich dark blue-green rounded foliage, the flowers create a soft, vintage palette that's perfect for cottage gardens, kitchen herb beds, and edible flower growers.
 
This is a compact mounding variety that grows just 10 to 12 inches tall and 12 to 18 inches wide, making it ideal for container growing, hanging baskets, window boxes, garden borders, and any small-space situation where vining nasturtiums would be too aggressive. Unlike its trailing climbing relatives, Peach Melba stays neat and bushy throughout the season, producing a continuous parade of blooms from late spring through frost without overtaking neighboring plants.
 
Like all nasturtiums, every part of the Peach Melba plant is edible. The flowers have a slightly peppery, cress-like flavor with a sweet floral finish, perfect for tossing into garden salads, garnishing soups (especially gazpacho or cold cucumber soup), strewing over cheese platters, or finishing summer desserts like fresh fruit, sorbets, and pavlovas. The young leaves have a similar peppery bite that works beautifully in sandwiches and pesto. The unripe seed pods can even be pickled as a caper substitute, sometimes called "poor man's capers" in old time kitchen garden books.
 
For culinary growers, Peach Melba is one of the most photogenic edible flowers you can grow. The cream-yellow-and-raspberry color combination photographs gorgeously on plated food, making this a favorite of restaurant gardeners, food bloggers, and growers who sell to farmers markets or local chefs. The flowers hold up well after harvest if cut early in the morning and kept lightly misted.
 
Beyond the culinary appeal, Peach Melba is a hardworking pollinator plant that attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds throughout its long blooming season. The plants are also famous companion plants in vegetable gardens, they're traditionally planted with brassicas, tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash to deter aphids, squash bugs, and cabbage worms. Some growers use them as a trap crop, drawing pest insects away from valuable food crops.
 
This variety is an heirloom open-pollinated cultivar that comes true from seed, meaning you can save seeds at the end of the season and grow Peach Melba again next year without losing the characteristic coloring. The seeds are large and easy to handle, making this one of the best nasturtiums for children's gardens, beginning gardeners, and classroom growing projects.
 
This is for 25 seeds
 
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