The TOP 12 plants for a blossoming vegetable garden

Encourage biodiversity in your vegetable garden! When you plant nectariferous flowers, you attract beneficial insects 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 or thyme.

2	•	Common borage	Borago officinalis
3	•	Blue giant hyssop	Agastache foeniculum
4	•	Wild bergamot	Monarda fistulosa
5	•	Garden nasturtium	Tropaeolum majus
6	•	Aztec marigold	Tagetes sp.
7	•	Pot marigold	Calendula officinalis
8	•	Bachelor’s button	Centaurea sp.
9	•	Coneflower	Echinacea sp.
10	•	Black-eyed Susan	Rudbeckie sp.
11	•	Garden cosmos	Cosmos bipinnatus
12	•	Clover	Trifolium sp.