If you haven't planted Nasturtiums before, let this be your year. With their good looks and spicy kick, these flowers do double duty in the kitchen garden.

Nasturtium (literally "nose-twister" or "nose-tweaker"), as a common name, refers to a genus of roughly 80 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants. It is native to South and Central America.

They have showy, often intensely bright flowers, and rounded, shield-shaped leaves with the petiole in the center. The flowers can be added to salads for an exotic look and peppery taste. Its unripe seeds, when pickled, have been used as a substitute for capers.

Source: Wikipedia