Can Be Planted In Crevices, These Are 12 Types Of Edible Flower That Feel Good

JAKARTA - When choosing flowers for the yard, several elements that you need to consider include the colors, shapes, sizes, types of pollinators they pull, and how well these plants will blend with the current yard. One more thing to consider is whether these beautiful flowers can also be eaten or can add flavor, texture, and color to your cooking.

Choose one type of edible flowers recommended by the experts below for the yard of your home and put it in your favorite recipe. Get the opportunity to enjoy it in a unique way.

Andy Thewlis, an agricultural manager at The Inn at Little Washington, said these beautiful flowers had a spicy taste.

"Nasturtium leaves have a spicy taste and are also delicious when eaten," he said, as reported by Martha Stewart.com, Monday, January 13.

Not only that, the nsturtium flower is also suitable as a companion plant in the garden such as cucumber. If you add this plant to the garden, Thewlis says to give it a distance of 8 to 12 inches.

"The plant prefers fertile soil and has good drainage," he said, adding that high levels of nitrogen encourage more leaf production than flowers.

Star-shaped and beautiful borage flowers produce a fresh taste similar to cucumber according to Thewlis.

"Large plants produce hundreds of edible and attractive flowers for bees and butterflyes," he said.

"This plant can reach a height of 18 to 30 inches, with a distance of every 12 inches."

Thewlis calls the violin an "extensive and easy-to-grow" plant, noting that this flower comes in a variety of colors.

"The flower, which is soft, signing, and has a sweet taste, prefers to be partially shady sunlight," he said of this plant.

He also suggested that the violin flower, when planted, be covered with a distance of 6 to 9 inches and planted in rich soil but has good drainage.

There are flowers that are pink, weather, and red. Most suitable for sweet foods such as sorebet, ice cream, and various other desserts. The taste and aroma are soft and varied. Little rose, lemon, and nutmeg taste. Having a very soft taste, you should not eat the stems, meaning that what can be consumed is the flowers only.

Star-shaped flowers that are present in various colors have a spectacular texture and a distinctive taste of the combination between flowers, honey, and grass.

"We cultivate star flowers in classic redshift and plums," he said of his own experience with the plant.

Marigold is a popular garden flower and is liked because of its beauty. In addition, opening marigold is also edible.

This luxurious orange and yellow marigold flower has a sharp tangerine taste and a soda-like flavor, said Thewlis.

"Disposal of the petals from the base of the flower before consumption because the base can taste bitter."

You may know this flower as a bellang flower. This blue flower is often used as a natural color for food and drinks. When washed or exposed to water, the blue color looks like it is fading. This flower does not have a certain taste, tends to be fresh.

So it is suitable to be served as a sweet or salty dish. Often mixed into blue or dried fat rice and used as tea.

The taste and aroma of this snapshot dragon flower depends on soil conditions or planting media. Suitable for use as a garnish or as a combination in cheese plate.

This beautiful flower with various colors has a taste similar to lettuce and a little sweet. can be used in various dishes, either sweet or savory because of the soft taste.

The taste of this pompone dahlia varies, it can feel like water chestnuts, apples, and carrots. Its use is also quite flexible, from appetizers to desserts and even mixes of drinks and cocktails, as well as to decorate wedding cakes and cakes.

Dahlia there is a very small and large one. If the big one is only using the petal. If what is used for wedding cake can be used completely," said Thewlis.

Dahlia is also very beautiful when frozen into ice cubes. Almost all edible flowers are suitable for ice cubes. Suitable for cocktail events. In addition to adding aesthetics, it can also increase the dudible flower resistance.

Thewlis said that Okra has a beautiful white flower. As a family of flower flowers, sangan okra flowers are attractive and can be cooked to get a delicious taste like asparagus.

This flower taste is quite unique, namely soft with a little clove taste. However, many of these types of flowers also have a bargaining taste. Because the taste tends to be neutral, this flower is suitable for ornamenting various foods such as soup, fried foods, seafood, salads, punch bowls, and various desserts.