Grow edible edging plants for borders along your property lines for fresh edible foodscaping crops all year round. Borders ...

Garlic chives, also called Chinese chives, are a different species, Allium tuberosum, but are also an edible perennial.

The artichoke plant is a perennial, meaning that it will come back every year to bring you a delicious crop. You can’t talk about beautiful edible plants without involving strawberries.

Edible forest gardens are less hands-on. You establish what your space is suited for (see below for how to do this) and plant perennials, which will keep growing year after year. Then just let nat ...

“It’s a perennial food system that mimics a natural forest ecosystem, just with edible plants.” If the vegetable garden in your mind consists of neat rows of crops, the food forest is its ...

The flowers are edible too, and well-visited by bees ... toss a thick layer of mulch over them when mulching other perennial plants in fall. Straw or chopped leaves work well.