Pretty vegetable garden?

I want to use combinations of flowers %26amp; vegetables in my garden but I want the effect to be pretty, any suggestions?

Pretty vegetable garden?
There are some darn fine books on this subject that you will find at the public library.

So, I would never plant a strictly utilitarian vegetable garden, and in fact have gone to great pains to create striking ones. The most spectacular are always Formal Knot Gardens, in which you lay out geometric patterns in the garden area, the simplest to illustrate in words is 4 squares of equal size with a sundial or bird bath in the center. You follow? Then you edge these beds with your choice of greenery, typically something that will last all of the summer. You can go so far as to use a permanent non-vegetable material, such as dwarf box, or you can clip closely planted herbs such as hyssop or one of the very tiny-leaved dwarf basils. Then fill in the bed with either one type of vegetable, or another pattern of them. (example: diagonal rows of alternating red and green oakleaf lettuce.)

Be sure to bring in some height. It is always worthwhile to splurge on something that will add some real class in this department, such as a quartet of standard bay trees. Stunning! Also don't forget to throw in a few frivolously showy flowers for color and interest.
Reply:Taller growing sunflowers - you can then plant climbing beans under them and the stalks act as supports while attracting bees and giving you flowers. Can get sunflowers in shades of yellow, brown/red and orange these days.

dwarf sunflowers around the edge of the vegies gives you flowers and edible seeds



Violets flower and you can add the flowers to salads.



nasturtiums have edible leaves for a hot adition to salads, and the flowers can be shredded for a colourful salad addition too.



marigolds (African in the summer and English in the winter) are colourful, and the flower petals added to salads.

the herb bergamot is very bee attracting, has large red fluffy flowers, and you can use the leaves for flavouring



Chives have purple flowers in summer, are edible and you get the leaves for cooking



carnations are pretty in full flower, can pick them for the vase, and flowers are sweet flavoured and used for garnishes and added to salads (petals only - base of flower is bitter)
Reply:Flowers:

Marigolds, Day Lillies, Tulips, Other assorted flower bulbs, if you want bulbs so you don't have to replant every year.



Vegetables:

Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Green Peppers, Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Pumpkin. All of these have flowers as blossoms before the vegetable starts to grow.
Reply:Definitely marigolds around the perimeter only and nasturtiums too this site gives more a more detailed list http://gardening.about.com/od/organicgar...
Reply:Nastursiums are nice - orange and yellow flowers that are edible.
Reply:Marigolds are always helpful around veggies. I have a few lillies in my veggie garden as well.