Edimentals are plants that are both ornamental and edible. In other words, these plants look beautiful in your landscape, and offer the added bonus of providing food. That might be in the form of their leaves, flowers or fruit.

Society garlic is a clumping plant that has a grasslike form and sprouts clusters of pretty purple flowers on long stems. Its long spiky leaves, as well as the flowers, are edible and offer a mild garlicky flavor.

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Japanese wineberry is a large shrub that produces hairy red flowers that become pretty red or orange berries. Use these berries as you would any other–in pies or cobblers, for example.

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Several herbs are fantastic edimentals. Grow oregano and thyme for a fantastic ground cover. Rosemary offers a sprawling version that works as a ground cover, and a shrubby type that’s just beautiful, especially when its small purple flowers appear. Another herb to consider is sage, with its distinctive gray-silver, fuzzy leaves.

The long, straight taproot of salsify tastes like artichoke to most people, though some detect a hint of mild oyster. The root can be boiled, sauteed in butter, or roasted. The plant’s tall, wide, grass-like leaves are also edible—toss them in a salad or sautee them as you would spinach.

You may think of chives as a topper for loaded baked potatoes, but the onion-y leaves have many uses in cooking. And the plant looks great, too. It forms clumps of tall, grass-like leaves and tall stalks topped by purple puffpall-ish flowers.

Occasionally, you’ll see a nasturtium flower adorning the plate at a fine-dining restaurant. The colorful blooms on this low-growing annual, as well as the leaves and seeds, are edible, with a peppery, mustard-like taste. Try adding nasturtium to salads for a spike of fun flavor!

It is the flower bud of the globe artichoke plant that we eat—before it flowers. For a spectacular garden display, however, allow a few of the buds to produce their large, showy purple flowers. After a few days in the garden, cut the flowers, hang them upside down to dry, and then add to an arrangement of dried flowers.