Fleuroselect presents this year's initiative '2021, Year of the Calendula & Courgette'.
Calendulas are pretty cottage garden plants that were traditionally
grown as part of the home medicine cabinet. The bright orange petals are still added to skin care balms and used to make an anti-inflammatory tea. You can add the petals to salads for a bright zingy effect, but make sure you don’t confuse them with the tagetes marigolds, which smell pungent and not nice to eat. A posy of zingy calendula flowers is sure to lift the spirits and if you keep picking the flowers so that the plants don’t set seed, they will keep flowering for months on end.
Courgettes should be top of the list for every gardener; they are the perfect crop to get started when growing your own food. These tender, juicy fruits are delicious grated or shaved into ribbons and eaten raw in salads and coleslaw with your favourite salad dressing, or barbecue chunks on bamboo skewers for scrumptious smoky flavour. Courgettes can be used to make delicious savoury pasta dishes, roasted vegetables, ratatouille, quiche, chutneys and pickles, jams and so much more.
Read more on Fleuroselect's initiative here.
