The annual Hanging Nasturtiums display returned to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28, 2023. The brilliant orange flower vines cascaded from the third floor balconies into the courtyard and will stay there through April 16, 2023. The display is a year-long process, which includes potting and repotting the vines, growing the plants along the greenhouse walls at the Gardner’s South Shore Nursery, and transporting the vines back to the museum for the next year’s display.
Horticulturists and volunteers carefully carry a 20-foot nasturtium vine into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the Hanging Nasturtium display on March 28, 2023.
A 20-foot nasturtium vine rests on the gravel pathway of the courtyard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28, 2023.
Horticulture Volunteer Patricia Fleck removes twist ties from the nasturtium vines, which were used to bundle them together during transportation to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28, 2023.
Fallen flowers from the 20-foot nasturtium vines rest on a bench bordering the courtyard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28, 2023.
Horticulture Volunteer Patricia Fleck removes twist ties from the nasturtium vines, which were used to bundle them together during transportation to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28, 2023.
Director of Horticulture Erika Rumbley helps to carry a 20-foot nasturtium vine with other volunteers while they install the display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28, 2023.
Horticulturists and volunteers carry a 20-foot nasturtium vine to the third floor of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the Hanging Nasturtium display on March 28, 2023.
Horticulturist Jenny Pore (left) and Director of Horticulture Erika Rumbley (right) work to hang the nasturtium vines from a third floor balcony into the courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28, 2023.
Director of Horticulture Erika Rumbley — a loose flower in her mouth — works to hang the nasturtium vines from a third floor balcony into the courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28, 2023.
Hortoculturist Sydney Mark inspects a nasturtium vine as she and others hang the 20-foot plant from a third floor balcony into the courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28, 2023.
Twenty-foot nasturtium vines hang from third floor balconies into the courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as part of the annual Hanging Nasturtiums display, which was installed on March 28, 2023.