Cucs, Herbs, greens, Lettuce & Other Edibles
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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 ‘Burgundy ‘
A show stopper in any garden - whether you grow it just for its beauty or as food - or both!! The deep red foliage and the remarkable flower clusters really make this plant stand out!
Amaranthus hypochondriacus
Amaranth ‘Elephant Head ‘
(Amaranthus gangeticus) Annual
Huge dark burgundy red plumes look as if an elephant is raising its trunk into the air. Long blooming spectacular plant that grows 3- 5', (152 cm) grabbing attention in the garden. It is also an excellent cut flower, the larger branches can be cut into smaller ones if desired. Absolutely stunning food plant! Seeds are edible and can be popped. Flower heads appear in late summer, producing approx. 50,000 seeds that are used like a cereal grain, milled into a gluten-free flour or cooked whole and eaten in place of rice and oatmeal. The leaves can be used as a cooked green.
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.
Basil – Cinnamon
Ocimum basilicum The unforgettable sweet cinnamon scent makes it a wonderful addition to summer bouquets. One of the most fragrant, easy to grow and abundant summer foliage plants, ‘Cinnamon’ basil is a lovely tall variety featuring dark purple/lavender flowers& veining atop green leaves and chocolate/violet coloured stems. Beautiful in flower bouquets. Ht. 26–30".
Recommended by Erin at Floret Flowers
Basil ‘Genovese’
Ocimum basilicum 'Genovese' - Who doesn't love basil??
The most popular culinary basil loved for its large leaves and sweet, mildly spicy flavour! It also retains its flavour well as it ages. Perfect for pesto salads, and any dish calling for a large leaved basil. Basil is a warm weather annual that thrives in well drained fertile soil in a full or partially shady location where it will get 6-8 hours of sun per day.
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
Chives have a unique, spicy flavour that's somewhere between the taste of garlic and onions in both the leaves and flowers. A relative of onions and leeks, but classified as an herb with tall, dark green, slender leaves that are hollow inside. The beautiful pale purple blooms made of tiny flower clusters are edible too.
Not only a cinch to start growing, they’re a perennial herb (zones 3 -10) —meaning they will grow in your garden for years!
Used as a garnish mostly, the promising health benefits of these alliums suggest adding them into your diet more often!
Coriander/Cilantro – ‘Caribe’
Dense bunches of aromatic dark green leaves on long-standing, bolt-tolerant plants. A lovely cilantro with nice big meaty leaves, Caribe emphasizes bolt tolerance. It has a nice, fresh, difficult to describe, strong flavour. High yielding over an extended period of time. Plants produce flowers that are attractive to beneficial insects. We in this part of the world tend to call the leaves cilantro and the dried seeds coriander.
Cress ‘Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled’
Lepidium sativum Cress is a salad green, aka pepper grass with distinctive peppery pungency. When it goes to seed it makes a bullet proof, versatile cut flower filler - fresh or dried!
(seen on US Floret Flowers)
Perfect for late season mixed bouquets and fall wreaths with silvery panicles covered in shimmery seeds, turning golden at the end of the season.
See more below.
Cucumber – ‘Salt & Pepper ‘
(Cucumis sativus)The most delicious crunchy cucumber I've eaten! The sweeter, smoother little sister of Silver Slicer, Salt & Pepper has Powdery Mildew as well as Angular Leaf Spot resistance, best suited for eating fresh and pickling. Small, squat, and cylindrical, roughly 7-12 cm long. Its outer skin is thin and white (pale green) with bumps and black spikes.
approx 40 seeds
Fennel ‘Bronze Leaf’
Foeniculum vulgare dulce 'Rubrum' this beautiful perennial plant is the host for the Swallowtail butterfly, is a long lasting, fragrant filler in bouquets, is edible, tasting like anise (leaves and seeds) and medicinal. What more could you ask for????!! Highly recommended as a long lasting unusual bouquet filler, similar in appearance to dill, its smokey bronze colour contrasting beautifully with the mustard yellow blooms. An aromatic herb that attracts beneficial insects!
If you follow Georgie Newbury at Common Farm Flowers in England you will know this is one of her favourites for filler too!
Kale Mix
A great mix of kale including Red Russian a.k.a “Ragged Jack” Superb purple-veined, blue-green leaves with red-purple frilly leaf margins. Sow 3–4 seeds 30-45cm apart, 1cm deep, in rows 45-91cm apart. Thin to 1 plant per group, or grow as microgreens!
Approx 200 seeds