No matter what type, shape, or colour they are, flowers undoubtedly play a key role on the most romantic day of the year, being one of the most appreciated gifts received on Saint Valentine’s Day.

Apart from your classic roses, gerberas, and daisies, nature has many other beautiful and unique flowers to offer us that are not so well known. Take a guess where you can find them… In your vegetable garden! Here’s just a few of them for you.
Potato flowers. As well as producing a fantastic tuber, the potato plant has another surprise in store: a delightful pentamerous flower whose colour varies from white to light purple with yellow stamens.
Squash blossoms. Squashes are monoecious plants, meaning they have both male and female flowers on the same plant. Much like potato flowers, their flowers are an intense yellow colour and, as well as being beautiful, they are also delicious (especially when fried).
Aubergine flowers. Aubergine flowers are very small and have a velvety feel. They embellish vegetable gardens with a range of tones that go from violet to white.
Artichoke flowers. The artichoke that we are accustomed to eating is no more than just the flower of a plant that has not yet come into bloom. When an artichoke remains unpicked, it continues to grow to produce an inflorescence of deep blue and purple.