Pretty and Delicious: 8 Fun Edible Flowers to Plant With Kids
Zinnias and sunflowers
Why: Zinnia and sunflower seeds are big, easy-to-sow seeds — great for planting with kids. Both are nectar-producing flowers with large pollen-filled centers that pollinators love. When buying seeds, try to buy heirloom varieties and watch out for words on the seed packets such as doubles, double blooms and pollenless, which are flower varieties that beneficial insects can’t access.
When and where: These flowers will thrive in full sun (at least six hours a day). Plant the seeds May through June. Cutting the zinnia blooms for bouquets throughout the season will actually promote continued growth, as will deadheading, or removing spent blooms. (Buy zinnia and sunflower seeds.)
