Grow to Eat

Do eat the flowers!

Although we treasure garden flowers as eye candy and not as food, there are many that are edible. They’re also pretty enough to change an everyday dish into a botanical smorgasbord that will please all the senses…

Many herbs and vegetables produce flowers that are edible and flavourful, but the scope is so much wider if you really want to go to town with culinary experiments.

Seeing that it is autumn and planting time for

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