~ Seed for EDIBLE Flowers ~
In general, most flowers are not edible, but there are a few that are - these make wonderful additions to salads:
Flashback Calendula 'Touch of Red'
A wonderful Flashback-type of Calendula ( also called Pot Marigold), these are bred for beautiful coloured backs to their petals, to contrast with the fronts.
In the evening, they fold up their petals for the night, showing off the flashy backs of their flowers. Although they make a beautiful garden and cut flower, Calendula flowers are also edible
In times past they were used to colour butter, but nowadays their main use is to add to salads. A sprinkling of petals, or even whole flowerheads, is a really nice way to add a bit of colour to a fresh salad.
approx 100 seed £
Wild Violet "Johnny Jump-Up"
An easy and beautiful old flower, with little yellow/purple little flowers. The plant is about 4 inches tall -it will often naturalise and grow in your garden for many years.
Very easy to grow. Sow the little seeds in fine compost in trays / modules and *just* cover with soil. Water gently and keep moist and nicely warm until they germinate. When big enough to handle transplant out to their final position; they will tolerate partial shade.
The flowers are edible and can be put in salads or candied to decorate cakes.
about 500 seed £
Borage for Salads
A very well-known bee plant, attracting them and other useful pollinators to your garden, borage has very pretty blue star-shaped flowers that are edible.
We often sprinkle them on top of our tomato salad for an amazing contrast.
200 seed £
Mixed Nasturtiums for salads
Nasturtiums are a really easy plant to grow – ideal for kids - and as well as attracting beneficial insects, the leaves are added to salads, and the flowers are edible too. Even the seed-pods can be pickled and used like capers!
Here we have mixed three colours (red, orange and yellow) and added a variety with variegated leaves, so you can have colourful salads all summer long.
Red, Orange, Yellow, & variegated.
75-80 seed £
Sokol breadseed poppy
Breadseed poppies are unique in that the heads do not 'open' when the seed is ripe, so the seed doesn't shake out in the wind – instead you can collect it for cooking, topping breads or pasta.
These beautiful poppies are 3ft tall, pale pink with pretty darker patches on their petals. Easily-grown, giving a lot of seed from a small space, this is the rare white-seeded type with a superior flavour.
White-seeded. One of our best-selling varieties.
hundreds of seed, organic. £
"After Midnight" breadseed poppy NEW
An amazing new poppy from Frank & Karen at Wild Garden Seeds that is almost completely black. It looks stunning!
Like all breadseed poppies, the seeds do not fall out when ripe, and can be collected for cooking.
Rare, almost-black breadseed poppy. Very limited stocks.
hundreds of seed, organic. £
