~ Seed for EDIBLE Flowers ~

In general, most flowers are not edible, but there are a few that are - these make wonderful additions to salads:

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Calendula 'Flashback Mix'

Flashback Mix is an amazingly diverse mix of Calendula ("pot marigolds"). They have been bred for all sorts of different coloured backs to their petals, to contrast with the fronts.

In the evening, they fold up their petals for the night, showing off the flashy backs of their flowers. Although they make a beautiful garden and cut flower, Calendula flowers are also edible. In times past they were used to colour butter, but nowadays their main use is to add to salads. A sprinkling of petals, or even whole flowerheads, is a really nice way to add a bit of colour to a fresh salad.

Bred on Gathering Together Farm by Frank & Karen Morton, who have since retired, we now maintain them on our farm in Wales.

about 80 seed, organic £

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Sokol breadseed poppy

Breadseed poppies are unique in that the heads do not 'open' when the seed is ripe, so the seed doesn't shake out in the wind – instead you can collect it for cooking, topping breads or pasta.

These beautiful poppies are 3ft tall, pale pink with pretty darker patches on their petals.  Easily-grown, giving a lot of seed from a small space, this is the rare white-seeded type with a superior flavour.

White-seeded. One of our best-selling varieties. 

pkt of organic seed (hundreds and hundreds) £

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one of our favourite photos...

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"After Midnight" breadseed poppy NEW

An amazing new poppy from Frank & Karen at Wild Garden Seeds that is almost completely black.

It looks stunning, and a few of the plants always have a decorative fringe to their petals, which you could select for by saving seed from those ones. Like all breadseed poppies, the seeds do not fall out when ripe, and can be collected for cooking.

Rare, almost-black breadseed poppy. Very limited stocks.

pkt of seed (many hundreds) , organic £

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Mixed Nasturtiums for salads

Nasturtiums are a really easy plant to grow – ideal for kids - and as well as attracting beneficial insects, the leaves are added to salads, and the flowers are edible too.  Even the seed-pods can be pickled and used like capers! 

Here we have mixed three colours (red, orange and yellow) and added a variety with variegated leaves, so you can have colourful salads all summer long.

Red, Orange, Yellow, & variegated.

a generous pkt of 75-80 seed for £

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Borage for Salads

A very well-known bee plant, attracting them and other useful pollinators to your garden,  borage has very pretty blue star-shaped flowers that are edible.

We often sprinkle them on top of our tomato salad for an amazing contrast.

at least 200 seed £

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Chinese Violet Cress

Meet the beautiful and easily-grown 'Chinese Violet Cress', also known as the 'February Orchid'. It's very easy to grow as it is actually from the brassica family, and it makes pretty bushes that eventually get to about waist height, with intense purple flowers.

For growing outdoors, sow from March - June with early sowings best in trays/modules, later can also sow direct. But also very sucessful sown in late August & grown overwinter in a polytunnel/greenhouse or even under cloches, making an excellent winter salad, & bringing a welcome splash of colour in spring.

Start to pick once plants are established, both the leaves and flowers are edible & great in salads.

90 seed (it's incredibly rare) , organic £

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Wild Violet "Johnny Jump-Up"

An easy and beautiful old flower, with little yellow/purple little flowers. The plant is about 4 inches tall -it will often naturalise and grow in your garden for many years.

Very easy to grow. Sow the little seeds in fine compost in trays / modules and *just* cover with soil. Water gently and keep moist and nicely warm until they germinate. When big enough to handle transplant out to their final position; they will tolerate partial shade.

The flowers are edible and can be put in salads or candied to decorate cakes.

about 500 seed £

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