Which plants should I grow on the balcony?

A local nature center will be selling native plants in pots. I’m wondering which plants from the list people like for medicinal or culinary purposes, and why.

Purple Coneflower, Sky-blue Aster, Nodding Wild Onion, Sweet Joe Pye, Bee Balm, Fox sedge

I don't know much about the others, but I'd get the echinacea and nodding onion.

Echinacea (purple coneflower) can be used to help fight stubborn colds. It's nice to have some in storage, and they're pretty flowers.

Nodding onions are like chives, just with a stronger onion flavor. You can use them in soups, salads, baked potatoes, and anything else you want a little additional onion flavor in. They're perennials and multiply by bulb, so you can have lots of plants if you divide it ever year or so and plant the extra bulbs.

I didn't have much luck growing plants indoors, but sweet peas and tomatoes are often a choice. I bought a miniature apricot tree for my indoor pot but it died, and now I'm using it as a trellis for the peas and tomatoes.

not a medicinal/culinary use, but if you want to attract pollinators to your balcony for other plants, the bee balm is great for that, and it's also pretty.

Nicole Alderman wrote:I don't know much about the others, but I'd get the echinacea and nodding onion.

Echinacea (purple coneflower) can be used to help fight stubborn colds. It's nice to have some in storage, and they're pretty flowers.

Nodding onions are like chives, just with a stronger onion flavor. You can use them in soups, salads, baked potatoes, and anything else you want a little additional onion flavor in. They're perennials and multiply by bulb, so you can have lots of plants if you divide it ever year or so and plant the extra bulbs.

These were the two that caught my attention. I love trying new members of the onion family.

The pots will go outdoors. The sale isn’t until the 20th, I think.

I think we already have a seed mix for pollinators. I’ll have to check what is in the blend.