"Kay" wrote in message
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In article , Mike Lyle
writes

nasturtiums

They're famous for liking a poor site.

Not true!! They *love* a fertile site - put out lots of healthy green
leaves with very little need to bother with flowering and seed
dispersal.

It's because they hate poor soil that they're flowering their socks off
in order to get their seeds to somewhere more congenial.


I think Mike meant they are famous for performing to most people's liking in
poor soils. In my experience, they'll grow almost anywhere in the garden, as
long as conditions are damp enough for seed germination.

Reverting to the initial topic of the thread, their leaves do seem to shed
water quickly, and are therefore difficult to 'wet', but I reckon Lady's
Mantle leaves are perhaps even more waterproof.