According to a recent article in Good Housekeeping, the most surprising and beautiful spring blooms may not be those growing in your garden or on sale at the local florist. The article stresses instead the idea of utilizing supermarket items as decorative objects, combining form, function and vegetable in a new and different way. (Frank Lloyd Wright, be quiet. It’s time.)
Think of how this will change your shopping attitude, technique and not to mention use of coupons! Walk down that produce aisle and consider everything you see like splatters of paint on a palette, all rendering different decorating options. Fill your basket with double your usual choice of vegetables, the logic being that one is for your mouth and the other is for… well, possibly your walls tables and/or patios.
You can create a vegetable world at your feet. Consider lemon topiary, or an asparagus-as-vase arrangement. If you really feel over the top, how about some parrot tulips in a vase of citrus fruits?
The ingredients are as follows:
• 1 large glass vase,
• 8 oranges
• 6 lemons
• 6 limes
• and tulips
Instructions are to fill the vase about ¾ to the top with whole oranges, lemons and limes. Then fill the vase with water and place the stems of the tulips in the center of the vase. Asylum officials assure in whispered tones that this will help anchor the flowers.
What’s next, folks? Perhaps orange rinds and potato peels?
What do YOU think about this? Please share.
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