Fantastic forms

1 CHINESE CHIVES: Also known as gow choy. These flowers are said to have a faint smell of roses! Try the plant on a sunny windowsill inside to perfume your kitchen.

2 MUSTARD GREENS: Grown for the edible leaves, longer days are the trigger for mustard plants to produce flowers. If you want to harvest the seed for homemade mustard, let the flowers mature and set seed on the plant.

3 RED AMARANTH: Amaranth can be grown for the edible leaves (which taste a bit like a bitter spinach) or the edible starchy seeds (although you have to beat the birds to get that!).

4 CARROT: Like all umbelliferous blooms, carrot flowers bring in pollinators, and are a magnet for helpful predators like parasitic wasps. 5 BEETROOT: Left alone, beetroot will send up tall, twisted flower spikes.