A few weeks ago I was tasked with the job of arranging the flowers for my Mom's 60th. A Grande affair. My mom is a keen gardener and has always prided herself on creating soups and salads from her extensive vegetable garden, that she tends to with care and pride. I wanted her 60th decor to reflect some of the things we love about her, and this includes her wonderful cooking and her sustainable gardening skills.
I decided to do Vegetable arrangements, and I feel that they turned out far more fabulously than I had imagined.
My sisters and I collected all our "vegetable flowers" from good old Pick 'n Pay, and then went to Woolworths to purchase some of their exotics. For nine arrangements we spent under R400 and after the party, we divided them between the 3 of us and the arrangements were used in a vegetable soup, a salad and a on a braai.
We bought one bunch of Woolworths roses, that we dotted in-between the vegetables, for a touch of glamour and quirkiness and then kept all the vases glass (except one, for a different area) , to create a bit of uniformity.
The arrangements caused my moms friends to bring their Canon Cameras out, and much thrill around the table (at the wonderful Ottimo Cibo), and along with their cost effectiveness and fun-factor to arrange, I feel they were a huge success!
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