My Traveling Roads

Travel, Road Trips, Adventures

  • Home
  • Meet Kim
    • Work With Kim
    • Contact Kim
  • Travel & Adventures
    • Auto Reviews
    • Family Adventures
    • Road Trips
    • Texas Travel
    • USA Travel
  • Texas Road Trips
  • Camping & Hiking
  • Pets
  • Wellness at Home
    • Crafts
    • DIY
    • Family
    • Gardening
    • Recipes

Seven Edible Flowers for Your Garden

April 23, 2020 Kim 12 Comments

When planting a beautiful flower garden, you want to provide food for pollinators like butterflies and hummingbirds. What you may not have thought about is planting flowers you can eat as well. Edible flowers make a great addition to flower beds and your diet from deserts to summer salads. Here are seven edible flowers for your garden.

Seven Edible Flowers for Your Garden

Seven Edible Flowers for Your Garden

If you’ve done any research at all on edible flowers, you know there’s plenty out there. Edible flowers add color to all kinds of foods, from main dishes to desserts to fancy drinks. I’ve chosen my favorite flowers to share with you.

Day Lilies for Your Garden

Day Lilies are popular landscaping flowers that attract hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden. These tall flowers make an excellent backdrop for a garden bed and a great addition to your salads or served with vanilla ice cream.

Image by Wisconsin pictures from Pixabay

 

Chives are Flowers and Edible

Chives make a great addition to your flower or herb garden. The green stems make an excellent seasoning for your favorite savory recipes food or addition to your salads. This herb produces round fluffy purple flowers with a light onion flavor that can make a great addition to summer salads.

Seven Edible Flowers for Your Garden
Image by Leonie Schoppema from Pixabay

 

[Related] >>>>> Culinary Herb Garden Complete Kit

 

Calendula (Marigold)

Calendula is a bright yellow marigold that is great for repelling pests in your garden, using for skincare, and adding to your food. This flower takes on a flavor similar to saffron when lightly sauteed in olive oil.

Image by Couleur from Pixabay

 

Hibiscus is Edible

Hibiscus has a light cranberry flavor and can make a great addition to a flowering tea garden. Use hibiscus a garnish for cocktails or a cold summer lemonade. This flower is perfect for tropical gardens and will attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

Seven Edible Flowers for Your Garden
Image by Tesa Robbins from Pixabay

 

 

Roses are Edible

Roses are a fantastic edible flower. This flower is known for its beauty and is packed with nutrition and a soft, delicate flavor. These are perfect for decorating baked goods from brownies to full cakes.

Image by Holger Langmaier from Pixabay

 

Violets

Violets can be candied and used to decorate baked goods or made into a pure violet jelly. Soring violets make an excellent ground cover for your lawn, helping bring a pop of color long before many other flowers begin to blossom.

Image by AnnaER from Pixabay

 

English Lavender

Lavender makes an excellent flowering herb to grow in your garden. These delicate flowers make an excellent tea for relaxing at the end of the day. This perennial flowering shrub is perfect for pots near your entryways and will help repel mosquitoes while producing flowers you can use in rea or decorating cakes and cupcakes.

Note: English Lavender is edible – Spanish Lavender is not.

Image by Alan Pottinger from Pixabay

If you would like to make some lavender shortbread cookies, see the below link. These are yummy!

[Related] >>>>> Tea Party Lavender Shortbread Cookies

You May Also Like

Healthy Ways to Spruce Up Every Day Salads

Best Plants for a Beautiful Butterfly Garden

Start An Indoor Herb Garden with Ease

Related

Gardening

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

A New Adventure Delivered Monthly - Get Started At TheNomadik.com

About Kim

Travel writer and road trip enthusiast of My Traveling Roads, Kim Croisant, is a proud native Texan passionate about seeing the world by car, plane, train, RV -- any way she can. Her travels include many road trips through Texas and beyond. Kim is raising her grandson and takes him and her Yorkie/Shih Tzu mix doggies on as many trips as possible. When she's feeling the love, she lets her darling 82-year-old mother come along as well. But her favorite way to travel is solo. When Kim's not writing, she is hiking through nature and camping in the woods in a cabin full of amenities.

Comments

  1. Amber B. (@amberstarr82) says

    May 1, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    Love adding flowers to my meals! I’ve done day lilies in salads and lavender in baked goods. I’ll have to try a few of your suggestions!

    Reply
    • Kim says

      May 2, 2020 at 7:37 am

      Aw, that makes me happy!

      Reply
  2. Kileen says

    April 30, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    I would love to try all of these! They sound like a great way to enhance any meal!

    Reply
  3. Lecy | A Simpler Grace says

    April 30, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    I love growing an edible garden but have never done flowers before. This is something I’ll have to try!

    Reply
  4. mriveraediblesense says

    April 30, 2020 at 3:44 pm

    I’m going to attempt to plant every one of these when I move into my house. I love cooking and baking (and drinking) with flowers.

    Reply
    • Kim says

      April 30, 2020 at 5:57 pm

      OH yes, must have edible flowers in our drinks!

      Reply
  5. Kelsie says

    April 30, 2020 at 3:37 pm

    I thought for sure I’d see nasturtiums on this list! They are so easy to grow too. I didn’t know day lillies were edible!

    Reply
    • Kim says

      April 30, 2020 at 5:57 pm

      Well, I’ll have to research that one and add it to my list. Thanks!

      Reply
  6. Mimi says

    April 30, 2020 at 12:16 pm

    I didn’t know much about edible flowers, but I’m curious about it. Thank you for sharing this information.

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Tips and Tricks to Growing Zucchini | Green/Gardening says:
    May 3, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    […] 7 Edible Flowers for Your Garden […]

    Reply
  2. The Perfect Gluten Free Lavender Tea Party Muffins | Forever Green Mom says:
    May 1, 2020 at 7:15 am

    […] [Related] >>>>> 7 Edible Flowers for Your Garden […]

    Reply
  3. How to Grow Perfect Carrots | Forever Green Mom says:
    April 23, 2020 at 3:30 pm

    […] 7 Edible Flowers For Your Garden […]

    Reply

What's on your mind today? Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Follow My Traveling Roads on Social

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Welcome to My Traveling Roads! You’ll find many road trips I’ve taken in Texas & beyond, plus news about traveling, cars, family adventures, and self-care while traveling. Get out in nature when you can! Travel safely! More about My Traveling Roads

Subscribe to MTR's Blog Posts

Expert Contributor

Pages

  • Meet Kim
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy/Disclosure
    • Work With My Traveling Roads

Spaces and Stories of Creative Women

· © Copyright 2016-Current My Traveling Roads · All Rights Reserved · My Privacy Policy ·