Eat Your Flowers
Edible flowers make a great addition to a salad, look good on top of a dessert or floating in a cocktail.
The taste varies from mild to spicy and some have subtle flavours like the hint of cucumber from Borage flowers.
It's not as scary as you think you already eat cauliflower and broccoli flowers!
These are the plants we grow and eat:
Borage
Separate the flower from the green sepals at its base.
Calendula or Pot Marigold
The flower petals used to be used to colour butter. You can eat the petals or the whole flower. We eat them in salads.
Chive Flowers
Chive flowers have a mild onion taste. They are great in omelettes.
Nasturtium
What a great plant, you can eat all of it and it grows prolifically. Eat the leaves as a spicy salad tasting similar to watercress, the flowers look great on top of a salad. The seeds can also be fermented or pickled 'poor man's caper' Nasturtiums also attract beneficial insects and can also act as a catch crop for black fly.
Wild Violet
We used Johnny Jump up from Real Seeds sprinkle on salads, the tiny flowers can also be candied.
There are many other flowers especially from herbs that you can eat an internet search will bring up lists with herbs such as Dill, Garlic Chives, Greek Oregano, Lavender, Purple Basil, Rosemary, Thai Basil and Spearmint which are commonly grown in the UK.