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. The secret to success when using edible flowers is to keep the dish simple, do not add to many other flavors that will over power the delicate taste of the flower. Today this nearly lost art is enjoying a revival.
WARNING:Not every flower is edible. Eating some varieties will make you very sick. Please do some research before eating any flowers. Never use pesticides on anything you will be eating.
The Alaska Nasturtium is a beautiful golden yellow to orange variety that looks great in patio containers and hanging baskets!
he Blackjack Viola is a favored trailing variety with attractive masked blooms of deep purple to black petals with bright yellow eyes.
Borage is a mounded plant that produces beautiful blue flowers that are great for using as a garnish for different dishes or drinks.
The Chive is a widely known herb that produces flat, solid leaves with a wonderfully pungent flavor that is similar to onions.
Lemon Balm will bloom beautiful fragrant white flowers that are great for attracting bees to your garden for pollination.
Rosemary is a very popular herb for its many uses, such as in potpourris and aromatherapy as well as flavoring many dishes!
The Crackerjack Marigold is a festive flowing plant that produces huge, bushy blooms of carnation-like flowers on tall stems.
The Creeping Thyme is a mat-forming evergreen plant that produces small purple spikes and makes a beautiful ground cover!
The Dukat Dill's attractive ferny foliage is best when used fresh or dried in dips, salads, soups and sauces - as well as to flavor peas and potatoes.
The Nasturtium Dwarf Jewel Mix is a very beautiful and vibrant mix that produces cherry rose, golden, peach melba and primrose flowers that stand out!
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 Empress of India Dwarf Nasturtium produces a dark green foliage with stunning scarlet blooms that are very pleasing to the eye!
The Fiesta Gitana Calendula is a dwarf variety produces attractive, bushy blooms of orange, yellow and gold edible petals.
Florences's fresh fennel leaves are a favorite steamed, grilled or raw, like celery, on salads, with eggs, fish and sauces!
The Johnny Jump Up Viola is a beautiful little flower that will bring charm and grace to any summer landscape or hanging basket!
The Magnus Echinacea is a favored coneflower that produces large, ultra-colorful, bright pink blooms that are sure to stand out!
The Pacific Beauty Mix Calendula is a beautiful golden yellow and orange pot marigold that makes for excellent cut flowers.
A great cutting plant for center pieces. Blooms from July to August on 3′ foot plants. Prefers full sun or afternoon shade.
The Peach Melba Nasturtium is a dwarf, non-trailing variety that flowers in varying shades of yellow and cream with dark orange blotches in the center.
The Peppermint has excellent leaves with a refreshing aromatic smell used as flavoring in baking, such as peppermint candies and teas.
The Purple Echinacea is a coneflower that is a sturdy perennial that is native to the Midwest, Southeast and naturalized throughout the Northeast.
The festive, beautifully colored Rainbow Fiesta Okra blend consists of red, orange, white, and green okra varieties making it such a fun okra to grow!
The round little Ronde De Nice Zucchini is a summer squash with a creamy yellow flesh that is the perfect zucchini for stuffing or roasting.
Packed with tiny blooms on burgundy stems, this fragrant perennial is great for cutting. Quick growing with a great mint aroma.
The Slow Bolt gets its name for being slow to bolt, meaning that the plant starts to produce the seed, rather than growing more leaves.
The Star of David Okra is an Israeli variety with grooves, making it resemble a "star" and is best picked when small and will keep well.
The Sweet William Dianthus is a spectacular, multi-colored flower that blooms beautiful, bright colors that adds a pop to any garden!
The Nasturtium Tom Thumb Mix is a dwarf variety that produces single flowers that are held above the foliage to show off its vibrant colors.
Produces an abundance of tiny white flowers from spring through the end of summer. It tolerates drought and poor soil conditions very well.
The Balls Orange Calendula is an old-fashioned variety that has a large, fully double, orange blossoms that are perfect for cutting.
The Italian Cocozelle Zucchini is a bush type of squash plant that produces high yields of the long, tender, dark green fruits.
The Italian Cocozelle Zucchini is a bush type of squash plant that produces high yields of the long, tender, dark green fruits.
The Cow Horn Okra is an old heirloom dates all the way back to the early 1900's and is best harvest at 6," but it can remain crunchy up to 10" long.
The Flavora Rose shades Dianthus is a fragrant, compact flowing plant that produces beautiful multi-colored blooms that will flower its first year.
The Floral Showers Snapdragon blooms an array of beautiful colors and is one of the best performing dwarf snapdragons around!
The Nasturtium Single Mix is a vibrant mix of lovely shades of red, orange and yellow flowers that are sure to grab your attention!
The Standard Chive is a hardy perennial herb that is equally attractive as it is delicious.