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If you've seen those small packages of colorful, edible flowers in

your grocery store or specialty food market, you know they can be a

bit pricey. The solution? Grow your own! Edible flower grower Hanna

Jacobs says that growing edible flowers is relatively easy if you

follow this advice; full (or at least partial) sun and no chemicals.

They can be grown from seed or transplant, in containers or in the

ground. Not all flowers are edible however some are, in fact

poisonous.

 

What differentiates edible from poisonous?

 

According to Malcolm Campbell, an associate professor of cell and

system biology in the University of Toronto's botany department,

petals often contain poisonous chemicals to deter animals (and people)

from eating them, a survival mechanism so that flowers can be

pollinated by insects, thus perpetuating the species.

 

Campbell says that some flowers just weren't that attractive to

foragers and that's why they are considered edible. He also advises

that anyone who is not knowledgeable about what flowers are edible

stick to the tried and true, for example these edible flowers. Some

flowers have particular rules regarding edible-ness. For instance,

only chrysanthemum petals not the base of the flower, which is only

edible before the flowers bloom and while the leaves of scented

geraniums are edible the flowers are not.

 

Source: Easy-growing edible flowers are easy on the palate, too

 

 

Heleigh Bostwick, Making Gardens Greener

 

 

When I see the price that you pay

I don't wanna grow up

I don't ever want to be that way

I don't wanna grow up

Seems that folks turn into things

that they never want