10 Edible Flowers with Their Magical Properties & Health Benefits (Patreon)

Here are some lovely articles that discuss edible flowers along with their magical properties and health benefits! If you’re a green witch or interested in learning about green witchcraft, then this post would be great for you! Flowers are not just beautiful they are also edible. You just don’t eat the actual stem but the flower petals itself. They are fantastic! They all have unique flavors and adds beautiful colors to your cooking. Adding Flowers in a salad is a classic food thing.

You can also make really vibrant oils out of them. You can also crystallize the flower petals and you can use them for cake decorating, add them to a muffin, and add them in the salad to garnish or just eat simply these nice and crunchy petals.

Lots of flowers are edible but not all of them taste great.

1- Borage

The violet-blue flowers of borage taste like fresh cucumber and complement sweet and savory dishes. These annuals grow best in cool weather.

Magical Uses:

Courage

Psychic Powers

Protection

Air Magic

Carrying fresh borage blossoms will increase your courage and strength of character. Place one in your buttonhole for protection when hiking or going for a long walk. A tea made of borage can induce and strengthen psychic powers. An infusion of the herb can be sprinkled around the house to ward off evil.

Practical/Medicinal Uses:

Borage flowers can be eaten in salads to add a small hint of sweetness. Add them to tea to help relieve inflammation and symptoms of the common cold. The herb is also an expectorant and can be used to treat bronchitis. Medieval European medicine held that steeping borage flowers and leaves in wine and drinking the resulting concoction was a cure for melancholy. Borage does actually possess properties that allay depression and relieve anxiety and stress. Celtic warriors drank wine flavored with the herb to boost courage before going into battle, though the bravery probably came from the booze rather than the borage. The herb loses much of it’s potency when dried, so if you’re going to use it, try to get your hands on fresh borage.

Folk Names: Bee Bread, Bugloss, Burrage, Borak, Cool Tankard, Herb of Gladness, Llanwenlys (Welsh: Herb of Gladness), Star Flower, Lisan selvi, Lesan-El-Tour, Ox’s Tongue

2- Pot Marigold

Calendula flowers bloom all season and popular in herbal tea. There fresh and gold petals also have a peppery taste that gives salad and sandwiches extra color and zest.

Other Names pot marigold, English marigold, poet’s marigold, Husbandman’s Dial, Marybud, Merrybud, Marygold, Summer’s Bride

Magical Attributes:

Marigold is associated with the Sun.

Calendula symbolizes love and constancy and is great for wedding bouquets and decorations. It is the traditional “he loves me, he loves me not” flower and is useful for love potions.

Wreaths of marigold hung over a door are said to keep evil and negativity from entering.

Dried petals can be strewn to consecrate an area or burned in consecration incense. They are also a good addition to dream pillows.

Household Use:

Calendula makes for long-lasting cut flowers, but the scent is overpowering for some.

Petals can be used to make a lovely yellow dye. It has been used to lighten hair.

Healing Attributes:

Calendula is antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic and is often added to healing and skin soothing salves.

Culinary Use:

Calendula petals can be used as a food coloring agent and has traditionally been used to color butter and cheese. It can be used to make yellow rice without saffron. They are also good in salads or sprinkled over cakes for a festive look.

3- Chive Blossoms

Chive Blossoms appear in late spring and taste of mild oniony chives. They look beautiful on a salad or deviled eggs. Clip and enjoy them while they’re in bloom.

A perennial plant that is part of the onion family, the long slender green ‘tubes’ have a very oniony taste and the purple flowers are not only pretty but edible too.

Often used in the Middle Ages to lift the spirits of those who were feeling depressed and this led to them being used in exorcism rituals too.

A helpful ingredient to break negative habits and destructive cycles and it is also said to help protect

a person from evil temptations…I can’t vouch for that… All these properties also make it a useful herb to bring about protection.

Grow outside your window and/or hang bunches from the ceiling to bring protection to your house.

I also read that gypsies used to tell the fortune using chives.

Chives Magical Properties:

Exorcism, negative energy, bad habits, protection

Ruling planet – Mars

Element – Fire

Gender – Masculine

Taken from A Kitchen Witch’s World of Magical Food by Rachel Patterson

Image taken in Rachel’s garden.

4- Elder Flowers

Few flowers are as delicate fruity and sweet tasting as elder flowers which bloom from late spring to midsummer. The white blooms add delicious floral flavor to drinks or desserts or you can soak them in the fruits or juice to flavor jams and jellies.

The flower and the leaf can be utilized in spell-working for protection, prosperity and to encourage good health. Its flowers can encourage psychic and mystical dreams. Wands created out of elder bark are also thought to be particularly powerful.

The Eldertree, its flowers and berries are associated with femininity, water and Sagittarius.

5- Lavender Flowers

Summery Lavender Flowers taste as they smell and can be added to flavor drinks teas or desserts. They can also be used in rubs to flavor roasted or grilled meats.

Magical Properties: Lavender is known to ward off evil spirits, promote a long life of peace, and used for purification.

Non-Magical Properties: Lavender has been used for its medicinal properties dating back to 77 AD by the Greek Physician Dioscorides during the Roman Empire. It was recorded that lavender relieved indigestion, headaches, and sore throats. When taken internally, lavender even helped with wounds and burns.

Ancient Egyptians used lavender in their mummifying process and as a perfume on their clothes. In modern times, lavender is used for ailments such as anxiety, stress, insomnia, exhaustion, digestion, nervousness, and more. It is also used as a culinary herb to add aroma and flavor.

How to Use in Magic: The plant can be burned to promote sleep and rest, and the ashes are scattered around the home to bring peace and harmony and purify the space. The flowers are also placed under pillows or made into a tea to heal depression and induce peaceful sleeping. Dried lavender is also hung outside the house to ward off evil spirits.

6- Nasturtiums

If you like the spicy flavor of watercress then you’ll love the taste of freshness darshan flowers, in salads to tea sandwiches. Enjoy their peppery taste from summer to fall.

They are also wonderful companion plants especially in the vegetable garden. Grow them with pumpkins, Melons, Cucumbers, Cabbages, Broccoli and Radishes the Nasturtiums will protect them from pests.

Apple trees also benefit from Nasturtiums being planted around them as they prevent wooly Aphid.

You can also use the leaves in an infusion and spray the plants and it will kill the pests especially aphids!

Nasturtiums in Cooking

These little guys are delicious with their peppery spicy flavour. The flower, leaves and the seed pods are edible, I like to use the flowers and leaves in my salads and sometimes just as a garnish on a cracker. The flowers are also really nice stuffed and also fried in a beer batter. You can pickle the seeds in white vinegar (they taste similar to a caper) and you can also use them to substitute pepper.

Here is a favourite Recipe I like

Stuffed Nasturtiums

Ingredients

12 Nasturtium Flowers or more depending on the size of the flower

225 grams (8 ounces)of cream cheese

one small can of drained crushed pineapple

1/4 cup of chopped pecans or walnuts

Create your mixture:

In a bowl mix together all of the ingredients above.

Now create a ball of the ingredients and carefully place it into the centre of the flower, gently pull the petals upwards to cover the cheese as much as you can and press lightly to stick to the cheese.

They are now ready to enjoy!

You can add any variety of flavours to the cream cheese base, herbs, garlic anything lemon whether it’s zest or a herb like lemon thyme etc, the sky’s the limit really.

Nasturtiums in Herbalism

Nasturtiums are anti bacterial, antifungicide and antibiotic. They’re an expectorant and disinfectant.

Clears out mucous conditions, bronchitis, respiratory, infections and relieve chest conditions.

Relieves infections both internally and externally, exceptionally good for disinfecting wounds and cuts and also heals ailments of the urinary tract and as a depurative (purifying and detoxifying) the body.

Crush the plant, apply the juice directly onto the wound and reduce inflammation.

Chew a couple of leaves when you start to get a cold and stop that cold in it’s tracks.

Beneficial for curing yeast and fungal infection.

Can alleviate muscle aches and pains.

Nasturtiums are also high in vitamin C

Nasturtiums in Magickal Practice

Astrological Planet: Neptune

Element: Air and Fire

Magickal Attributes

Aspirations, Banishing, Clearing Energy, Creativity, Ethics, Festivity, Freedom, Independence, Protection, Spiritual, Strong Beliefs, Strength and Purity

Dried leaves can be made into an incense, use to cleanse your home and raise the spiritual vibrations.

Add the dried flowers to other incenses to add strength and purity. Or in blends for festivities to lift the vibrations.

Use in a Magickal potpourri and Nasturtium Flowers will help you invite magick into your life.

Folk Remedy

Use Nasturtium to stimulate hair growth, use a liquid infusion and apply to the hair and scalp.

For a cleansing bath, use a tea infusion of the leaves and bathe normally.

7- Pineapple Sage

The bright crimson flowers of pineapple sage appear in fall and taste of citrus and mint with a hint of honeysuckle. Add them to fresh fruit salad or desserts.

Pineapple sage attracts hummingbirds and butterflies, according to Texas A&M University, so if you do plant it in your garden, you can expect to see these visitors dropping by. Pineapple sage blooms from late summer to early fall (around August to October), and it's a hummingbird favorite because other sources of food are scarce around that time.

You can even chop up the leaves and flowers and use them in your cooking. According to Florida A&M University, they have a rich flavor that goes well with several types of dishes, including breads, sandwiches, smoothies, salsa, fritters and chicken dishes. They taste especially great blended into banana smoothies, kneaded into raisin bread and mixed with cream cheese to make a fruity spread.

Another study, published in the December 2018 issue of the journal ​Molecules,​ notes that pineapple sage has been widely used in traditional medicine, to lower blood pressure and to treat insomnia, anxiety and nervous system disorders.

8- Squash Blossoms

In the Mediterranean squash blossoms are coveted for their mild squash taste. They’re often filled with cheese in pan or deep-fried.

If you're attracted to Squash Blossom, you may be feeling stuck, stagnant, shut down or blocked in one or more areas of your life. A subtle resistance may be preventing you from tapping into your usual innovative ideas.

Another aspect is that intimate relationships may feel difficult or challenging. Squash Blossom helps us work through issues related to body image, sensuality and sexuality. It can be indicated when we’ve had uncomfortable or painful experiences in the past, such as sexual abuse. We may feel worried about losing control of our bodies, or we’re afraid of our bodies in some subtle way.

9- Roses

Rose petals and red roses water have been used to flavor pastries desserts and fruit salads for thousands of years. Be sure to only use untreated garden roses for cooking. The stronger the rose scent the better the flavor.

Roses have a long history as a flower of love. They are one of the most common ingredients in love spells. The magickal properties of rose include love, luck, friendship, protection and happiness. Roses also have a multitude of medicinal applications such as aiding inflammation and regulating menstrual cycles as well as being anti-bacterial, anti-viral and possibly helping with depression.

10- Wild Violets

Candied violets were popularized as a delicacy in Victorian times but have been valued for their sweet fruity flavor for much longer. Violets can also be used to make violet flower syrup which is vibrant purple and delicious.

Violets are associated with the planet Venus and so can be used in all types of love and glamour magick. Place flower heads in a warm bath along with a few drops of lavender essential oil to enhance you beauty and leave the skin glowing.

Place violet petals beneath your pillow for dreams to show the one destined to be your true love or what it is you truly desire. Violets are also associated with second sight, visions and the subconscious mind so placing them beneath your pillow also encourages prophetic and lucid dreaming.

Violets are a plant of protection, keeping malevolent and evil spirits at bay. You can use them as charms to ward off evil. Try carrying a sachet of them with you. Or alternatively plant in your garden or if you do not have one, a window box or place in a pot by the entrances to your home. As violets are associated with the crystal amethyst, they provide a link with the divine. Place on altars or places sacred to you.

Grow any of these edible flowers in your garden to add extra beauty or flavor to your seasonal dishes. You could also try to find these while foraging, too!

Happy edible flower growing or foraging!

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