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14-02-2010, 11:58 AM
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| | | Edible Wild Flowers
Wild Flowers aren’t just beautiful I love to eat them too! Born out of my love for Wild Foods I have been eating Wild and cultivated flowers for many years. Wild Flowers to me aren’t just there to look pretty, well not just in the field, but also on the plate! Cultivated flowers such as Nasturtiums have an amazing peppery flavour; the flowers of the Wild Garlic have an incredibly intense onion’y sweetness that just makes you come back for more and more.. I have been looking for and cooking edible wild flowers for while but want to know more so if you have any favourites or questions with regards to Wild Flowers why not discuss them here?
The most common and disregarded of the Wild Flowers is the Dandelion. The Dandelion is versatile and flavoursome and the flowers can be picked and tossed through a salad or battered and deep fried, extraordinarily common and available most of the year! For more Wild Dandelion recipes see my Wild Food blog, but in the meantime of you have any Edible Wild Flowers that you can tell me please do, or if you have a question regarding Edible Wild Flowers let me know and I’ll tell you if they’re edible and what you can do with them!  |
14-02-2010, 12:19 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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| | | Re: Edible Wild Flowers
Cool. I can remember many years ago on local BBC News seeing an article all about eating flowers, daffodils on that occasion if I recall correctly, but only the flower head. I'll have to have a look at your links  |
14-02-2010, 12:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: n.e.somerset
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| | | Re: Edible Wild Flowers
Welcome to the site. I did a google search,saw plants for a future,looks intresting.Hope this might help... |
14-02-2010, 04:25 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Outside Bewdley in a wood with stream in garden.
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Originally Posted by artdemole  Welcome to the site. I did a google search,saw plants for a future,looks intresting.Hope this might help... | Plants For The Future is one of my favourite books and their website is great too |
14-02-2010, 04:39 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006
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| | | Re: Edible Wild Flowers
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Originally Posted by Jonners Cool. I can remember many years ago on local BBC News seeing an article all about eating flowers, daffodils on that occasion if I recall correctly, but only the flower head. I'll have to have a look at your links | I know daffodil bulbs are toxic and I wouldn't eat the flowers either, personally. Sugared primroses and violets are nice though. |
14-02-2010, 06:14 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: North of York
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| | | Re: Edible Wild Flowers
Definately stay away from daff bulbs. My mum tried to poison us all once, went into the garage & took the bulbs that were hanging up (winter) instead of the onions which were also hanging up (she'd put them there as well!) to put in a soup. We've never let her forget it heh 
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17-02-2010, 07:30 AM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Feb 2010
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| | | Re: Edible Wild Flowers
Thanks for the welcome!
On a more serious note, please do not eat Daffodils. The whole plant is toxic and in some cases lethal. No part of the Daffodil is edible! As with all plants / mushrooms etc only eat them if you are 100% sure that you have identified them correctly and they are indeed edible.
Phew, now we have got that out of the way, a very safe option is to start trying flowers that are most familiar to you. If you want to start exploring the sometimes exceptional flavour of Wild Flowers try picking and tasting the flowers of herbs grown in your garden (or someone else's  ). The flowes of chives, thyme and rosemary have amazing flavour and really add something unusual to a salad! I'll keep updating my blog with wild flowers that are edible and of course tasty, oh and if anyone wants any more info just ask.. Wild Food, Wild Mushrooms and Fishing in Essex |
17-02-2010, 03:14 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Suffolk coast
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| | | Re: Edible Wild Flowers
[quote=Paulie L;594471]Wild Flowers aren’t just beautiful I love to eat them too! Born out of my love for Wild Foods I have been eating Wild and cultivated flowers for many years. Wild Flowers to me aren’t just there to look pretty, well not just in the field, but also on the plate!
I hope you're all talking about wild flowers grown in your own gardens ?? As picking flowers in the wild without the landowners permission is illegal. If you pick the flowers where is the new seed gonna come from?
Then again there are no restrictions on picking the leaves. So grow'm in your garden and get a multitude of benefits as well as flowers to eat
And as for daffodils, I used to pick them on a farm down in Cornwall, we used to wear washing up gloves to pick'm coz the sap is horrendous. Some of the workers would get 'daff rash' from it that spreads over your body, and at the local hospital they likened the rash to those caused by mustard gas in WWI  horrible stuff.
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17-02-2010, 03:15 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Suffolk coast
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and welcome to WAB Paulie, nice to get a different perspective on plantlife on here |
24-02-2010, 07:09 AM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Feb 2010
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| | | Re: Edible Wild Flowers
Hi All,
There are many places to gather Edible Wild Flowers from. These, places do include your garden but also wasteland, roadsides and some public places. Let's remember that we are not talking about uprooting a rare a and beautful orchid. I am talking about gathering more common plants, most classified as weeds. However, there are many many conservational techniques that you should employ - these rules work for all wild foods and will allow you to come back year after year.
•Take flowers and foliage only from large patches of the plant.
•Always pick in moderation so that plenty is left for others to enjoy.
•Be careful not to damage other vegetation when picking flowers (do not uproot the plant).
For more information please see the Wild Flower Society Website
Also, if you get the opportunity and do indeed see some seed heads why not sprinkle the seeds into the palm of your hand and rough them into the surounding soil. This will ensure that the plants seeds have indeed been passed on and give the best chance of the seed creating a new plant.
See my blog for Wild Dandelion recipes Always be sure that you have identified the plant correctly, please do not eat a rare or protected plant or indeed a plant that is poisonous.
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