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Flowers accomplish a appealing accession to ice cubes for drinks, but not all flowers are safe to use. (Photo: Anna Mente/Shutterstock)

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Flowers are an accessible way to add a pop of blush and adroitness to your drinks. Whether it's water, lemonade or a cocktail, air-conditioned the cooler with annual ice cubes couldn't be easier. But not all flowers should be amphibian about in your drinks.

Pansies are edible, but afore you eat them, ask if they're developed with pesticides or fertilizers. If so, try to acquisition organically developed flowers instead. (Photo: linerpics/Shutterstock)

Not every annual is safe for consumption. Even admitting the flowers will be encased in ice initially, as the ice melts, the flowers will appear in acquaintance with the beverage. A annual like crocus may attending absolute for ice cubes with ablaze colors and baby size, but the annual that's one of spring's aboriginal harbingers doesn't accord in your drink. (It can account vomiting.)

Even if a annual is edible, the way its developed needs to be considered. If the antecedent of the flowers is unknown, again so is the use of types of pesticides and fertilizers on them. Choose organically developed flowers, acquisition a bounded agriculturalist and ask how the flowers are grown, or abound flowers to use in ice cubes or added comestible uses. For ice cubes, try one of these nine flowers.

Lavender makes for a nice accession to algid tea. (Photo: wael alreweie/Shutterstock)

Lavender ice cubes don't accept to go in lavender-flavored drinks. They can go in any drink, but they would absolutely add a nice blow to Algid Chamomile Lavender Tea.

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Marigolds allure pollinators and are accessible to grow. (Photo: jade7117/Shutterstock)

Marigolds are accessible to grow, so these may be area to alpha if you're planning to abound comestible flowers for ice cubes. They're workhorses in the garden, alluring pollinators and against insects that can advance some vegetables so they're advantageous alfresco and inside.

Remove the abdomen of the hibiscus annual afore you add it to the ice cube tray. (Photo: baldube/Shutterstock)

These appealing flowers charge the stamens and abdomen removed afore activity into the ice cube tray. Use the ice cubes in Jamaican Hibiscus Tea or put them in a bottle bullpen abounding of baptize so the blush is visible.

Pansies can accomplish your ice cubes added colorful. (Photo: By Aleksandar Djordjevic/Shutterstock)

Pansies can be blue, orange, yellow, purple, assorted shades of red and white. Imagine the bright ice cubes a array of pansies would make.

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The absolute dandelion bulb is edible. (Photo: gom_yeou/Shutterstock)

Just accession acumen why dandelions are not weeds — they're absolutely edible. Put them in ice cubes accomplished or cull alone petals off and baptize them in the cube trays afore abacus the water.

Cornflower ice cubes would be a abundant accession to July Fourth celebrations. (Photo: A. Strode/Shutterstock)

Like hibiscus, cull the abdomen out of these flowers afore application them in ice cubes. They blossom in backward bounce and aboriginal summer, so anticipate ice cubes for a 4th of July celebration, bond them with white and red flowers.

These begonias would add a blow of orange to Halloween-themed ice cubes. (Photo: mizy/Shutterstock)

Begonias abound able-bodied in containers. A blind bassinet or a pot by the aback aperture beggarly flowers for ice cubes are consistently in ability during their growing season.

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The absolute daisy annual can go in the ice cube tray. (Photo: Michael.B944/Shutterstock)

Also accepted as English daisies, the accomplished annual can go into the cube tray. Play "she loves me, she loves me not," and backbone anniversary alone blade off and besprinkle them in the tray.

Opt for mini roses like this one to fit the accomplished affair in an ice cube. (Photo: Chirachai Phitayachamrat/Shutterstock)

Miniature roses are aloof as comestible as abounding admeasurement roses, so either can be acclimated in ice cubes. The mini roses can fit accomplished into an ice cube tray. Backbone the petals from abounding admeasurement roses and use a few in anniversary ice cube.

How to add flowers to ice cube trays is appealing self-explanatory, but if you'd like a few tips — like application distilled baptize instead of beeline tap — booty a attending at this video tutorial.

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