{"id":2949,"date":"2009-04-30T00:29:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T07:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2011-11-03T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:44:18","slug":"flowers-in-salads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/flowers-in-salads\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers in Salads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float-left alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/78\/Nasturtium-Tropaeolum.jpg\/175px-Nasturtium-Tropaeolum.jpg\" alt=\"nasturtium\" width=\"175\" height=\"131\" \/><br \/>\nAn interesting article at the Independent &#8211; Is Gardening the New Cooking?<\/p>\n<p>Many top class restaurants are using a variety of flowers to spice up their menus. It has led the public to remember old fashioned methods of collecting flowers to add to salads or meals. A free and colourful way to add a little extra to your meals.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst many flowers are edible, it is always important to remember a\u00c2\u00a0 child could become very ill if they were not educated about the dangers of plants such as foxgloves and laburnums.<\/p>\n<p>Which Flowers can go in Salads?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>borage,<\/li>\n<li>pansies,<\/li>\n<li>violas,<\/li>\n<li>honeysuckle,<\/li>\n<li>garlic chives,<\/li>\n<li>nasturtiums,(all parts are edible)<\/li>\n<li>beans and peas (including their black and white flowers)<\/li>\n<li>Rose Petals<\/li>\n<li>Herbs from Basil to Rocket<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article at the Independent &#8211; Is Gardening the New Cooking? Many top class restaurants are using a variety of flowers to spice up their menus. It has led the public to remember old fashioned methods of collecting flowers to add to salads or meals. A free and colourful way to add a little extra to your meals. Whilst many flowers are edible, it is always important to remember a\u00c2\u00a0 child could become very ill if they were not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/flowers-in-salads\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}