Edible Flowers

Edible Flowers Seed

Cooking and garnishing with flowers is more popular than ever! Today, many restaurant chefs and innovative home cooks garnish their entrees with flower blossoms for a touch of elegance. Try your hand at growing these edible flowers in your garden.

The Nasturtium Tip Top Mix is a dwarf variety that produces single flowers that are held above the foliage to show off its vibrant colors. This mix blooms a combination of gold, orange, red and yellow. These Nasturtium flowers are edible and have a tangy, peppery taste. You can add them to salads, stuff with a cream cheese filling or use to make a colorful garnish. Bumble bees will love the Tom Thumb Mix as much as you will!

Cow Horn Okra is one of the best flavored okras around that is great for pickling or gumbo! This variety produces larger pods than most okra and should be harvested young and tender. The best time to harvest Cow Horn is at 6," but it can remain spineless, crunchy and tender up to 10" long. This old heirloom okra dates all the way back to the early 1900's. The twisted shape of this variety somewhat resembles the horns of a cow, getting its name, Cow Horn. Use shorter more tender pods for pickling or longer pods for tasty gumbo! The flowers on Cow Horn will start to appear within 45 days with okra pods soon to follow.

This is an excellent okra plant for tight spaces. French Quarter Red does well in containers and smaller gardens. Produces attractive, compact plants that only reach 24-30 inches tall. Yields 3-5 pods at a time when harvested regularly. Harvest pods at 3-4" in size and use for grilling, stir-fry or jambalaya.

Carnival Mix comes in 4 vibrant shades, with big semi- to fully-double flowers that arise all along tall, sturdy stalks beginning just 4 months from sowing. An annual Summer Carnival Hollyhock is a long-blooming, very colorful series so garden-worthy that it received an AAS Award. Tall and stately, it blooms all summer for a rich display of big powderpuff blossoms in every shade of pink, rose, red, and yellow.

The Panorama Red is a great cutting plant for center pieces. Produce vibrant red blooms from July to August on 3' foot plants.

A high yielding producer of uniform, red okra. Harvest while young for small, deep red pods or wait for larger semi-pink pods. Fast-maturing at 51 days with stalky, upright plants. Produces edible flower with pink petals.

This is an excellent okra plant for tight spaces. French Quarter Pink does well in containers and smaller gardens. Produces attractive, compact plants that only reach 24-30 inches tall. Yields 3-5 pods at a time when harvested regularly. Harvest pods at 3-4" in size and use for grilling, stir-fry or jambalaya.