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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!
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Perennial |
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Edible flowers |
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Suitable for containers |
Our horticulturists’ picks:
1 | • | 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.
Downloadable documents

The TOP 12 plants for a blossoming vegetable garden[ - 1.03 MB - 2 pages]