The Edible Flower Blend is an annual and perennial mixture of an array of colorful and tasty edible flowers that are perfect to grow in your backyard. The wildflowers in this mix have a tangy, spicy, peppery, sweet floral, licorice or minty flavor. This mix should be planted at 13-26 pounds per acre or 10 ounces per 1,000 sq.ft.
The Wild Bergamot Monarda is the best bee balm for dry locations and produces beautiful violet blooms that have a wonderful scent! This variety has great mid-summer blooms, later than any other Monardas. The Wild Bergamot will attract a large amount of butterflies, bees and hummingbirds!
The Pacific Beauty Mix Calendula is a beautiful golden yellow and orange pot marigold that makes for excellent cut flowers. This Calendula variety is a customer favorites for brightening up a room in a vase or lending beauty to many dishes as edible flowers. This annual prefers cooler climates that look great in different containers and pots. The Pacific Beauty Mix's peak blooms occur in spring through summer.
The Great Red Poppy is a brilliant, bright red flower that blooms on long, stalks that will give any garden a neat and uniform appearance. This poppy variety is extremely drought tolerant, ideal for arid environments. The Great Red has brilliant red, cup-shaped flowers that sit on long stalks and prefer full sun in light to sandy soils.
Borage is a mounded plant that produces beautiful blue flowers that are great for using as a garnish for different dishes or drinks. This large variety is a self seeding annual that bears hundreds of small edible flowers, mostly blue and some pink, over a long harvest. Borage has a mild cucumber flavor that is great for salads and garnishes. Medicinal: Seed oil is a rich source of gamma-linolenic acid.
The Johnny Jump Up Viola is a beautiful little flower that will bring charm and grace to any summer landscape or hanging basket! This variety grows very easily from Viola seeds, and once established will even self-sow. The Johnny Jump Up is known for their spring beauty and is not invasive just delightful!
The Mina Citronella is a citrus yellow flower with long stems that is a rare variety of Mina Lobata and is used for keeping mosquitos away! This variety starts out with dark yellow buds that transforms to a citrus yellow, and ending with creamy white tips. This variety's blossoms are held upright on long stems making a nice contrast against its dark green foliage. This easy to grow spectacular vine grows to 15 feet in full sun. Mina's climbing vine is super in baskets and will bloom in 10 weeks from seed.
The Marigold Petite Mix is a top-notch, dependable flower for short season gardens that produces beautiful continuous blooms that can be enjoyed by many. These dwarf, uniform plants bear an abundance of double flowers in an array of yellows, oranges and golds. The Petite Mix is great for massing, borders or for spot color.
The Fiesta Gitana Calendula is a dwarf variety produces attractive, bushy blooms of orange, yellow and gold edible petals. This variety grows 8 to 12 inches tall and is suitable for containers, beds and borders, and the pollinator garden.
The Common Asclepias, also known as Butterfly Weed or Common Milkweed, is the only plant that Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on! This variety provides an abundant food source for Monarchs, but have been declining in the recent years due in part to suburban development and the increased efficiency of herbicides. The Common Asclepias spreads readily by seed and underground rhizomes and its taproot can withstand drought. This Butterfly Weed is one of the easiest and fastest to establish of the Milkweeds. Enjoy watching beautiful Monarchs visit on a daily basis!
The Rose Queen Salvia blooms its beautifully bright pink, bushy flowers heavily in the early summer and repeating until fall. This variety is a sun-lover and produces 20" inch spikes of beautiful blooms on bushy stems.
The California Poppy is a bright orange wildflower that is the most known poppy variety and will grow well throughout the United States. This poppy's foliage is absolutely beautiful and has flowers that close at night and open in the morning. Despite it's name, the California Poppy, grows well in hot or cold regions (annual) and is easy to establish.
Head turning red blooms that make a beautiful display! Scarlet Sage is a perennial in Southern states and an annual in Northern climates. Blooms appear continuously from early summer to first frost. Trim them back and a new flush of blooms will appear. Hummingbirds cannot leave these magnificent blooms alone.
Despite its name, the Swamp Asclepias is one of the most vibrant and beautifully colored milkweeds around for the home gardens! This Butterfly Weed's red blooms are beautiful and will attract butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden. This perennial thrives in zones 3-8 and will produces its willowy foliage and cherry-red blooms that can be enjoyed all summer long!
The Lance-leaved Coreopsis is a very popular and beautiful, golden meadow flower that will bloom all summer long and into fall. This variety is a popular meadow flower type throughout North America. The Lance Leaved is deer resistant and tolerates partial shaded areas.
The Balls Orange Calendula is an old-fashioned variety that has a large, fully double, orange blossoms that are perfect for cutting. This variety grows to be 24 inches tall and produces beautiful edible flower petals. The Balls Orange is suitable for cutting, beds and borders, and the pollinator garden.
The Humulus, or known as hops, is a climbing variety that produces green flowers that are most commonly used for brewing beer. The hops are what gives the beer its balance and depth as well as its bitterness.
The Robinson's Crimson Pyrethrum is a beautiful flower that produces stunning, crimson petals with a contrasting yellow center. This unbelievably brilliant crimson variety is a stunner in any garden.
