Add Beauty and Flavour to Your Garden
Add a multi-functional twist to your garden with some edible flowers that look good in the borders and taste good too! They can be used in soups, salads, in baking or just as an attractive garnish. Edible flowers are also invaluable for attracting pollinators like bees, butterflies, and plant-friendly insects as well as birds.
The Benefits of Edible Flowers
Nutritionally, many edible flowers are high in vitamin A and C, and also rich in antioxidants, helping to promote a healthy immune system.
Chives – Pretty Flowers with an Oniony Taste
Chives have pretty purple flowers with a subtle oniony taste, which can be added to soups and salads to give a spicy kick.
Lavender – Fragrant and Delicious
Lavender flowers, best known for their gorgeous fragrance, are edible and have a sweet flavour when added to cakes, biscuits and drinks, such as lemonade or tea.
Chamomile – Perfect for Tea
Chamomile can be used fresh or dried and is very popular used in tea as a calming, relaxing drink.
Borage – A Favourite with Bees
Borage flowers are a real bee magnet and have a strong cucumber taste. An ideal addition to salads, lemonade and fabulous in a G & T!
Nasturtiums – Colourful and Peppery
Nasturtiums, with their brightly coloured flowers, are a well-known edible flower with a distinctive peppery taste. Use with salads or meat dishes.
Scented Pelargoniums – Fragrant and Edible
Scented Pelargonium flowers, with their wonderful fragranced foliage, can taste delicious. Try the rose-scented variety for using in jellies, jams, fruit salad, apple pies and cakes, or the citronella Pelargonium with a very strong citrus flavour in teas or desserts.
Pansies and Violas – Colourful Garnishes
Pansy and Viola petals will make a colourful garnish to salads.
Wild Garlic – An Edible Plant from Flower to Root
Wild Garlic is a must-have as an edible plant, as the whole plant can be used. The flowers are very tasty in salads and the leaves can be used like Chives. The roots can also be used like Garlic in casseroles and roasts.
Always Make Sure Your Edible Flowers Are Safe
Although Nature provides many edible and medicinal plants always ensure you only eat correctly identified flowers that have not been sprayed with insecticides.
Village Gardens is an established landscaping and garden design company in Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs, creating beautiful outdoor spaces that balance aesthetics, practicality and environmental sustainability.
Their expertise includes water-wise landscapes, indigenous gardens, edible gardens and outdoor spaces designed to attract and support local wildlife.