The TOP 12 plants for a blossoming vegetable garden

Encourage biodiversity in your vegetable garden! When you plant nectariferous flowers, you attract pollinators and help your fruit and vegetable plants: a win-win situation, for both insects and humans!

	Perennial
	Edible flowers
	Suitable for containers

Our horticulturists’ picks:

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Culinary herbs

Some are perennials.

Let a few of your plants bloom: dill, basil, marjoram, mint, oregano, rosemary, thyme, etc.

2	•	Common borage	Borago officinalis
3	•	Blue giant hyssop	Agastache foeniculum
4	•	Wild bergamot	Monarda fistulosa
5	•	Garden nasturtium	Tropaeolum majus
6	•	Marigold	Tagetes sp.
7	•	Pot marigold	Calendula officinalis
8	•	Cornflower	Centaurea cyanus
9	•	Coneflower	Echinacea sp.
10	•	Black-eyed Susan	Rudbeckie sp.

Some rubeckies are annuals or biennials.

11	•	Common cosmos	Cosmos bipinnatus
12	•	White clover	Trifolium repens

Note: Since a perennial does not overwinter well in a container,
it can be grown as an annual.