06 June 2006

Pretty Enough To Eat (Country Gardens Early Spring 2005)

Plants You Can Use as a Garnish:
Borage-light cucumber flavor
Chive blooms-mild onion to garlic flavor depending on variety
Daylilies-sweet and crunchy like leaf lettuce (Warning: Other lily species are inedible)
Nasturtiums-sweet and slightly peppery
Roses-sweet taste and aroma (remove bitter white area of petal before eating)
Summer and winter squash blooms-sweet taste, similar to nectar
Violas-sweet, similar to nectar

For Looks Only:
Daffodil
Foxglove
Lilies other than daylilies
Morning glory
Peony
Poinsettia
Tulip

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