Growing Edible Flowers

Enhance your garden with vibrant, flavorful, and aromatic edible flowers. Taking flower such as Lavendar, pelargoniums, violets and borage into the kitchen will really boost the flavour of the dishes you serve.  In this one hour Master Class will guide you in selecting the right edible flowers for your garden, balcony, or windowsill, and provide creative ideas for growing, harvesting, and using them. 

Taken by Teresa Day, the online session will cover: 

Why Grow Edible Flowers - Discover how edible flowers can enhance your garden and home with beauty, pollination benefits, and culinary versatility. From vibrant salads and teas to desserts, cocktails, and elegant garnishes, these blooms offer aesthetic, practical, and economic value—all captured in inspiring photos. 

Selecting the Right Flowers and the Space - Learn to select edible flowers suited to your climate and grow them safely in sunny, well-drained spots or containers. Start with organic seeds or seedlings, water regularly, and avoid chemicals. Always confirm flower identity, use only organically grown blooms, and introduce new varieties slowly to check for allergies. Harvest in the morning at full bloom, use clean petals, and store briefly in the fridge. 

Perennial vs. Annual Flowers - Understand the differences between perennial and annual edible flowers, and how to plan your garden accordingly. 

Growing in Containers - Explore techniques for successfully growing edible flowers in pots and containers, ideal for small spaces. 

Companion Planting - Learn how certain edible flowers can benefit other plants by attracting pollinators and deterring pests. 

Harvesting and Usage Ideas - Gain practical tips on harvesting edible flowers and creative ways to incorporate them into your cooking and beverages. 

Popular Edible Flowers Focus - Take different flowers including pelargoniums, Violets, Borage and Lavendar and discover their growing needs, harvesting & storage needs and qualities or historic uses. We’ll also be providing some recipe examples 

This session is part of a three part series called “Grow More Flavour”. Other topics include  ‘Grow Spices – Ginger Turmeric an more.’, ‘Edible Flowers’ and ‘Plants for Vinegars Sodas and Cocktails’.  Book the Series Package for discount. Friends of SGA receive a 15% discount on Master Class full price tickets. You can become a Friend of SGA here. Green Garden Professional (GGPs) receive a 30% discount.

Sessions are recorded and links send to participants who can access it for one month after session

Sustainable Gardening Australia (SGA) is a not-for-profit non-government organiation dedicated to achieving a healthy biodiverse planet.

Its driving purpose is to:

• Encourage, educate and enable home and professional gardeners to adopt sustainable gardening practices to protect or enhance the natural environment;
• Provide information, education and undertake research about the natural environment;
• Reconnect people to the natural world through gardening; and
• Ensure an understanding of the impacts that gardening decisions about chemical and resource use have on the natural environment well beyond their neighbourhood.