Ornamental Edibles
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Not only beautiful but edible
Agastache ‘Lavender Hyssop’
Agastache foeniculum is a popular perennial & edible flower which is very aromatic. Foliage emits a potent lemony fragrance, plus lavender blue flower spikes that pollinators love! Blooms midsummer to fall first year from seed. Leaves & flowers can be used fresh or dried to flavour drinks, salads, soups, pasta, desserts. Although the leaf scent has been described as anise, the chemical anethole, associated with anise or licorice, is not found in high amounts in the plant. The seeds can be added to cookies or muffins. Flower spikes can be an attractive addition to fresh cut or dried arrangements.Pollinator magnet!
Amaranth ‘Autumn Touch’
Amaranth cruentus - Annual
Beautiful plumes of apple green flowers tinted with coppery bronze . The stunning, large textural stems make wonderful addition to large arrangements and the side shoots are smaller, great for bouquets. Excellent for fresh or dried use. A productive summer/early autumn filler & stunning in the cutting garden and border.
Amaranth ‘Dreadlocks’
Amaranthus caudatus gibbosus
Claret red heirloom with Mexican roots. Wooly-textured knotted ropes drape dramatically to the ground. Dreadlocks debuted in 1881 seed catalogs.
The stunning, large textural stems make wonderful addition to large arrangements and the side shoots are smaller, great for bouquets. Excellent for fresh or dried use.
Amaranth leaves and seeds are edible!
Amaranth ‘Emerald Tassels’
(Amaranthus caudatus) Long ropes of lime-green, trailing tassels add texture and combine beautifully with both bright and pastel colour palettes. Amaranth is easy to grow and is a great choice for beginning gardeners.
Fantastic colour and texture for fresh bouquets or large containers, gorgeous in wedding bouquets! When dried, the blooms turn from green to a light tan colour that works well in fall arrangements. Common names include amaranth and tassel flower. Fresh or dried cut flower, back of bed, accent in borders, and containers.
Amaranth ‘Hot Biscuits’
Amaranthus cruentus Bronze to chestnut-coloured plumes are ideal for autumn bouquets and bunches.
One of the most productive and easy to grow summer fillers, ‘Hot Biscuits’ produces abundant golden brown stems that add a unique textural quality to arrangements.
Prolific and easy-to-grow filler.
Amaranth ‘Mira’
This unique amaranth has multi-hued rose & pale green long, pendulous tassels - dramatic ropes of cut flowers for large bouquets!
Adds a stunning texture to bouquets, cutting gardens and borders. A statement! (and edible too!)
Listed on US Floret site
Amaranth ‘Coral Fountain’
Amaranth ‘Coral Fountain’ Amaranthus caudatus
I love these gorgeous pendulous, tassel-like blooms! Exquisite shade of dusty pink just like sun-faded velvet. ‘Coral Fountain’ is perfect for dramatic, large-scale arrangements and side shoots are perfect for bouquets.
annual, 36 to 60", full sun, Days to maturity: 75 to 90 days, Plant spacing: 12 in, Pinch when 12" tall
Start seed indoors 4 - 6 weeks before last frost; transplant out after all danger of frost has passed. Amaranth can also be direct-seeded into the garden once all danger of frost has passed.
(self seeds here Zone 5)
Beautiful partner for Emerald Tassels Amaranth
Bean – ‘Marvel of Venice’ yellow pole bean
54 days. Sweet, flat, yellow beans are ready to pick early in the season and continue to produce until frost. This Italian heirloom has 20-24 cm. long, 2 cm. wide beans on vigorous vines. It is really early, producing lots of delicious, tender, yellow wax beans. They are beautiful, flat, long beans with a rich buttery flavour. Minimum of 30 seeds per packet.
Bean ‘Sadies Horse’ Runner
A beautiful heirloom runner with huge beans have to be seen to be believed! - a gorgeous mix of colors including pink mottled black, lavender mottled brown and pure white. The vigorous vines are covered in a mix of white and almost fluorescent orange/red flowers all summer long and also attracts hummingbirds. Simply breathtaking! (110 days for dried beans) Pole.
approx 15 seeds per packet. Runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus)
Bean ‘Sunset’ Runner
Beautiful peach-pink blossoms are one of a kind! Attractive enough for flower gardens or patios, but this one is in a class by itself with luminous peach to shell-pink blossoms - absolutely unique! Vines to 6' (2m) or so, covered with cascades of runner bean pods, equally wonderful whether used as snaps fresh, canned or frozen, or as shell beans. Can also be used as a dry bean. Lovely!
60-70 days
approx 15 large seeds
Chives – Garlic Chives
Also known as Chinese chives, garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), can be used the way you use regular chives. They are distinguishable from chives by their flat, broader leaves and fragrant white edible flowers in midsummer, in the second year of growth. Flowers make a great addition to bouquets. The budded flower stalks known as "gow choy" can be found in Chinese grocery stores. Pull the florets apart and sprinkle on salads, dips, sauces, soups, stir-fries, and pizza & potato salad.
Flavour is a delicate garlic, midway between garlic & onion - used extensively in oriental dishes. Good choice for those who shy away from full-flavoured garlic.
