Edible Flowers: Add the flowers to salads or use to garnish cold drinks and desserts. Freeze as ice cubes. Mild cucumber flavor.
Culinary
Chives
Uniform, slender leaves for fresh use.
Highly consistent upright habit with fine, dark green leaves. Ideal for gourmet use.
Culinary
Endive
Fancy blanched leaves for salad mixes.
Beautiful, ruffled head of light green leaves that are deeply cut and toothed.Heart blanches to reveal creamy, sweet leaves. Also known as frisée or Trés Fine Maraîchère.
Culinary
Escarole
Dark green escarole with delicate, nutty flavor.
Culinary
Culinary Lavender
Edible Flowers: The flowers can be used to garnish desserts and as a distinct flavor element in baked goods. Flavor is sweet and floral, and pair well with citrus, berries, nuts, mint, and cinnamon.
Culinary
Nasturtium
Edible Flower: Use the flowers as garnishes, or stuff with soft cheese. The flowers can be minced and added to butters. Nasturtiums are a popular choice for adding color to salad mix. Peppery-flavored foliage is also edible.
Culinary
Flat Leaf Parsley
The preferred culinary variety.
Huge, dark green leaves with great flavor. Strong, upright stems make Giant of Italy one of the best parsley varieties for fresh use.
Culinary
Parsnip
Long, tapered roots are noticeably whiter and slower to discolour than other varieties.
Culinary
Red Sorrel
Flashy sorrel for salads.
Bright green leaves with contrasting, dark maroon stems and veins. Same sharp, tangy flavor as regular sorrel.
Culinary
Stock
Edible Flowers: The peppery, clove-like flavor of the flowers lends itself well to use as a garnish on salads, desserts, and drinks
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Aster
Peony-type blooms with excellent uniformity.
All the elegance and beauty of peonies and garden mums in an easy-to-grow annual. Deep silvery violet-colored blooms avg. 2–3" with 13–20 stems per plant. Also known as summer aster.
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Celosia
Sturdy, uniform plants with strong stems.
Bright carmine red, 2–7" blooms make useful fresh or dried cut flowers. Also known as cockscomb and crested cock's comb.
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Echinacea
Vigorous plants with large, purple-petaled flowers. Fibrous roots are easy to harvest. Attracts and is a food source for bees. Also known as purple coneflower and eastern purple coneflower.
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Passion flower
This native to southern Brazil is a semi-woody climber with 5-9 lobed flowers. A perfect plant for a south or west wall in a sheltered location.
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Petunia
Loaded with rich, bright purple 8 cm (3") blooms that continuously provide a wave of color. The spreading and cascading habit makes them ideal for hanging baskets, containers, window boxes and ground cover.
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Poppy
Classic red poppy seen in fields throughout Europe.
Large, 3-4" blooms provide cheerful color to any garden spot. Long-blooming.
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Salvia
Uniform plants tolerate heat, humidity, and poor soils. Well-suited for mass plantings. Strong, thin stems are harvested fresh or dried when bottom 3-4 flowers open.