We saw the Hanging Nasturtiums display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time, and it was spectacular! I hope that this is the start of a new tradition of visiting the courtyard when it is filled with the hanging orange blooms.
The Hanging Nasturtiums display is brief, the flowers only bloom for a few weeks, and then they are removed.
Hanging Nasturtiums is a longstanding tradition at the museum in the weeks around Easter, established by Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. The flowers are started in museum greenhouses nine months earlier and carefully tended until they reach lengths of up to 20 feet and the flowers start to bloom. Teams of museum workers install the hanging flowers from the courtyard windows.
We picked a sunny day to visit the museum. That day, the sun and the brilliant nasturtium flowers picked up the orange tones in the courtyard walls.
The ground level of the courtyard was filled with flowers in complementary colors.
And more nasturtiums.
Peeking out every window, I was rewarded with a colorful display of ruffled orange and glossy green.
Everyone wanted to see how the nasturtiums were planted and climbed to the third floor to find the plants in simple round clay pots.
If you are in the Boston area in spring, I recommend a visit to the museum to see the Hanging Nasturtiums display. Here’s the museum website where you can check the schedule and see if the nasturtiums are on view. Even if the nasturtiums are not in season, it is a wonderful museum to visit and the courtyard flowers are always stunning.
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Stunning pics, Dottie. I’m inspired to plant nasturtiums, myself. They grow well on the Oregon coast.
Thank you Diana. I love growing nasturtiums. I hope that your nasturtiums grow wild this year!