I wrote about nasturtiums a while ago in Nasturtium Flower saying that they could “reach New York by the simple but determined process of duplication,” suggesting that the flowers were entirely unnecessary. Here is a photograph of a nasturtium about one block up the hill in the vacant lot next to the city building that I wrote about only a few days ago in Guerilla Gardeners. It is madly flowering and about to consume an innocent succulent. It is a beautiful plant that would like nothing more than to leave nothing in its wake except endless nasturtiums. Probably an ocean breeze carried a seed one block east. It seems almost aware of the opportunity it has just inherited to dominate yet another garden. If it weren’t so beautiful…