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edible flower petal collection
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edible flower petal collection

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Decorate your cakes, embellish and garnish your dishes and salads with this seed collection of decorative and edible flowers....

5 × packets | seeds
£11.05
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Plant description

Decorate your cakes, embellish and garnish your dishes and salads with this seed collection of decorative and edible flowers.

What's included:

This tender, half-hardy and fully hardy collection contains 5 packets of seeds, a single packet each of:

  • Borago officinalis: A hardy annual herb, popular with bees. The young leaves and vivid blue flowers have a fresh cucumber-like flavour, so are often used in salads, soups, chilled drinks or simply as a garnish. Grows to 75cm.

  • Allium tuberosum: A close relative of ordinary chives, and used in just the same way to flavour cooking, garlic chives have flattened, strappy leaves and a pleasantly garlicky taste particularly when young leaves are harvested. The big healthy clumps come back year after year, and in late summer the starry white flower heads are a real bonus, much loved by bees. The flowers can be eaten too: pick just after they open and sprinkle on salads for a pretty and spicy garnish. Grows to 35cm.

  • Allium schoenoprasum : A delicious evergreen herb that will come back year after year. The slim, elegant dark green leaves of these chives can be used as a spicy addition to salads, or in soups, stews and curries. The pale mauve pom-pom like flowers, which are also edible and look wonderful when sprinkled over a summer salad, are produced in early summer. Grows to 45cm.

  • Tropaeolum majus 'Climbing Mixed': A succession of long-spurred, funnel-shaped, yellow, orange and red flowers appear from July to September amid the light green leaves of this easy-to-grow annual climber. These colourful nasturtiums are perfect for covering bare walls in record time, or for scrambling over sunny banks and slopes. Grows to 3m.

  • Tagetes patula 'Burning Embers': Deep orange-red blooms burn brightly throughout the summer on this well-known bushy annual often grown as a companion plant with tomatoes to restrict the spread of pests such as aphid. The petals of 'Burning Embers' are edible and can be scattered over salads. Grows to 45cm.

    • Plant features

    Position

    Full sun / light shade

    Rate of growth

    Fast-growing

    Soil

    Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil

    Growing instructions:

    Sow shallowly into moist but not overly wet seed compost and germinate at 68-77°F (20-25°C). When large enough to handle transplant into small pots, and grow on in cooler conditions. Seedlings should emerge within 1-3 weeks. Transplant, pot up and acclimatise before planting out at 30cm intervals after all risk of frost has passed. Later sowings after April can be made direct into a well-prepared bed.

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