Don't Just Pick The Flowers! Use The Whole Garden! Looking for a unique way to add interest to a flower arrangements? Take a hint from Mother Nature by utilizing everything that grows in the garden to create unique and fun arrangements. Gardens contain a multitude of wonderful flowers as well as fruits and vegetables. Sometimes we forget how noteworthy fruit and vegetables can be used as decorations, or as gifts in the form of "floral arrangements". By marrying the items found in gardens with fresh cut flowers, you can create unique and fabulous designs. For example, try something as simple as roses and statice with green grapes draping over a container. The mixture of the roses with the grapes is less formal, but conveys a bit of garden whimsy. What I enjoy about adding fruits or vegetables to flower designs is the ability to blend different textures, colors and smells into my table centerpieces. I recently had a dinner party and was serving Mexican [...]