Edible Garden Flowers
You can buy packets of seeds specifically for growing edible flowers from the edible flower shop.
Edible garden flowers. Edible flowers are easy to grow in your garden during both the cool season and warm season. Flowers will taste and look their best right after they have opened rather than after they have been open for a few days. Tuberous begonia flowers contain oxalic acid so should be avoided by people suffering from kidney stones gout or rheumatism. Edible flowers are a fun and easy way to add color and flavor to all sorts of dishes especially when you can pick them right from your own garden.
Read on to learn all about seven varieties of edible flowers to grow this year and why i think this should be the year you grow an edible flower garden. X semperflorens cultorum begonias have edible flowers with a slightly bitter to sharp citrus flavour. Summer offers roses snapdragons and geraniums and autumn also offers some great edible flowers in the form of dahlias and sunflowers. Nasturtiums this is a popular edible flower that takes well to containers.
Nasturtiums are available in trailing or upright varieties and their color range is reminiscent of a brilliant sunset think oranges reds and yellows. While flowers such as violas violets scarlet runner beans honeysuckle and clover are entirely edible some flowers have only edible petals. You can grow some home grown fresh edible garden plants in your backyard garden or garden box. Gem marigolds tagetes tenuifolia.
Tall flower spikes feathered with blossoms make a brilliant statement when set against a backdrop of green. Lemon gem and tangerine gem marigolds are the only edible marigolds. All parts of a nasturtium are edible. As the names suggest they have a citrus flavor even though you won t smell a citrus scent.
Petals leaves and seeds. Add fresh flavor to your food with our herb plants including sage plants and peppermint plants. Favorite edible landscape plants amaranth amaranthus caudatus amaranth is a spectacular plant that comes in shades of purple red gold and green. The packs include seeds growing instructions harvesting instructions and recipes for each type of flower.
The whole flower is edible. We even carry indoor fruit trees if you don t have enough outdoor space for an edible garden. These include roses calendulas tulips chrysanthemums yucca and lavender. Borage borago offincinalis the cucumber flavour of these attractive blue flowers adds interest to cakes salads and pate.
Most edible flowers are best eaten raw simply pick and rinse with water. Begonia both tuberous begonia x tuberhybrida and wax b.