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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you would like to make some lavender shortbread cookies, see the below link. These are yummy!
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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!
Aw, that makes me happy!
I would love to try all of these! They sound like a great way to enhance any meal!
I love growing an edible garden but have never done flowers before. This is something I’ll have to try!
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.
OH yes, must have edible flowers in our drinks!
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!
Well, I’ll have to research that one and add it to my list. Thanks!
I didn’t know much about edible flowers, but I’m curious about it. Thank you for sharing this information.