Organic Edible Flowers 20g Seeds Packet

This Edible Flowers mix is an assortment of plants and herbs that are both decorative and culinary, intended to garnish dishes and enhance the flavour of summer salads for creative cuisine. Their colourful and flavoursome petals, as well as their leaves or young shoots, can be enjoyed. Easy to grow in regular soil and requiring very little maintenance, they can be sown directly in place in May, in well-prepared and sunny soil. The resulting flowerbed will bloom for several weeks, also providing shelter and food for bees and other beneficial insects. Untreated seeds from conventional farming.

This selection consists of about twenty species of annual plants that grow quickly, are hardy and easy to cultivate, flowering 6 to 8 weeks after sowing. Some easily naturalise through self-seeding in regular and well-draining soil, as long as all the flowers are not cut off. The plants vary in height, ranging from 40 to 80 cm (16 to 32in).

Sample composition: marigold, borage, nasturtium, perilla, poppy, hollyhock, dill, etc.

Very trendy in refined, light, flavourful, and vitamin-rich cuisine, the flowers, young shoots, or young leaves of many plants or vegetables are increasingly appreciated for their colour and nutritional qualities. Marigold petals can be used to flavour oils, soups, vinegars, and infusions, as well as to colour butter or rice like saffron. Fresh or frozen borage flowers are used to decorate and flavour cocktails, compotes, creams, or salads, while the leaves pleasantly scent cucumbers and other raw vegetables. Perilla, rich in antioxidants, is a star in Asian cuisine, especially Japanese. It accompanies sashimi and buckwheat noodles as a condiment. The beautiful nasturtium has highly aromatic leaves and flowers that are ideal for preparing vitamin-rich salads. Its seeds, preserved in vinegar or brine, are an excellent alternative to classic capers. This mix allows for easy decoration of flowerbeds or large pots and can be used for making bouquets as well as inventing new salads and flavouring desserts and cocktails.