I checked to see if the stem of this flower connected with the roots of the nasturtiums surrounding it. Indeed, this is a nasturtium flower, something I don’t remember seeing before, which is no fault of the nasturtiums. Why there would be a flower at all is what amazes me. This yard was all nasturtiums, then taken down to all dirt, and is now, once again, all nasturtiums. At first they were tiny specs of green, now they are full sized and thriving. Why would they need flowers at all is what I wonder, when they could reach New York by the simple but determined process of duplication. They could simply will themselves to reach New York. When you clear a yard of weeds and the weeds grow back, it’s not an earthshaking event. You clear a vague selection of weeds and another vague selection replaces it. But when you clear a yard of nasturtiums, and in the blink of an eye the yard fills back up with nasturtiums, you know that something is going on that has nothing to do with seeds and everything to do with unchecked manic botanical growth.