Hot red Roses to cool the summer heat of Mumbai

A great way to make HOT res Roses look cool.

Go to your local florist, or come to my shop :) and buy roses, any ice cream glass at home will make these roses look cool in summer!

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Play Tic Tac Toe with #flowers and always win.

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Flowers in your Spring Roll...Garden of Eden I say

What you will need:

1 - 7 ounce package rick sticks (or bean thread noodles)*

4 cups very thinly sliced Napa cabbage

2 cups baby spinach leaves, thinly sliced (tough stems removed)

3 tablespoons cilantro leaves (stems removed)

1/4 cup sliced fresh mint

1/4 cup  thinly sliced fresh Thai or Italian basil leaves (stems removed)

2 scallions, thinly sliced on the diagonal (both white and green parts)

1 1/2 cups edible, organic flowers, stems removed

18 spring roll wrappers (Tapioca or rice flour wrappers)*

Other fillings that you might like to swap for those listed above:

Fresh Bean Sprouts

Green Cabbage, very thinly sliced

Finely grated carrot

Preparation: 

In a medium size saucepan bring 2 quarts water to a boil; add noodles and cook for 3 minutes.

Drain well, rinsing under cold water until noodles are chilled.

Prepare vegetables and flowers, toss gently in a large bowl to distribute the ingredients rather evenly.

To soften the spring roll wrappers: Fill a large pan, (wide enough to lay spring roll wrapper out flat) with a couple of inches of very hot water.  Place one spring wrapper into the water, submerging completely for about 30 seconds until it is soft and pliable. 

To assemble: Lay the wrapper out on the towel; place 1/2 of the filling ingredients and 1/4 cup noodles in center of wrapper; then roll up tightly to form the spring roll (as if making a burrito).

Serve with your favorite Peanut Dipping Sauce 

This is easily made using edible flowers and will add a special touch to your dinner buffet.

This is the full recipie

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Flowers as topping on biscuits make a great presentation

Pansy Shortbread Cookies

1 1/4 cups flour

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup room temperature butter

1/4 tsp vanilla

1 TBS dried egg whites

2TBS  water

Pesticide free Pansies or violas

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Pick flowers, rinse and pat dry. Put on paper towel to finish air drying.

1) Put flour and sugar in a large bowl. Mix together. Using a pastry cutter, cut in butter and vanilla until mixture resembles fine crumbs and starts to cling together.

Gather up crumbs into a ball and kneed together until smooth.

2)  Roll out dough just scant of 1/4" thick. Cut with cookie cutter. I used a fluted  2 1/2"cookie cutter.

Put cookies 2" apart on parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes, until the bottom and sides are just starting to slightly brown and center of top is firm.

Take out of oven and cool on baking sheet. 

3)Combine dried egg whites and water in small bowl. When cookies are cooled brush egg white mixture on one cookie at a time and top with pansey. Use your fingers to press the pansy down in the middle and smooth out all petals so they are firmly stuck to the cookie. Put a thin layer of egg white mixtrue on top of the pansy and smooth. Sprinkle lightly with sugar. Return to parchment lined baking sheet.

4) Bake at 325 degrees for 5 minutes. Remove from oven. With your finger smooth out any petals that have shrivelled up. Set out on a cooling rack until the top of the cookie is completely dry.

This is easily adapted using edible organic Rose petals or Organic Marigolds, both easily available in the flower markets. Alternately use "gulmohar" a local native flower just off the tree.

I found this interesting recipe here

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Home Made After Dinner Mints

A simple way to fresh After Dinner Mint.

Take fresh mint leaves, clean and dry them.

Dark chocolate chips melted in a double boiler.

Dip the leaves stem down, one at a time and leave to cool.

This recipe is from Lentil Breakdown

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Rose Petal Sandwiches easy to make and eat

Here's a great idea and a talking point for that Tea Party!

Rose Petal Sandwiches.

Soften cream cheese with Rose water (available in any supermarket) and spread the cream cheese over a slice of white bread.
Add a layer of Rose petals (organic only) and make a sandwich.

For a complete tutorial do read Rosemary's sampler.

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Stunning Calla Liliy Designs

Calla lilies are natives of southern Africa, particularly from the range of South Africa to Malawi and the island of Madagascar.

In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, the lily represented the goddess Hera, from whom it was believed the flowers came.

 In Roman mythology, Venus, the goddess of love and lust, saw the flowers, and in a fit of jealousy over their beauty, she made them grow a large pistil in their center.

The calla lily has meant different things at different periods in history, but its classic meaning is considered to be magnificent beauty.

Although calla lilies are thought of as classically white, today they are available in a wide variety of colors, including yellow, orange, pink and purple. Calla lilies make great cut flowers because they are long lasting, which makes them a popular choice for everything from wedding bouquets to decorative flower arrangements.

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Flowery Yoghurt Dip

Garden party Dip with edible flowers & veggies! 

Sounds romantic to have a garden party, with gorgeous colours of flowers.

This time have the flowers in a dip, in yoghurt...not in a vase!!

Nasturtiums, borage and violets. Petals of roses and lilies cups. Gold carrageenan, orange marigolds, scented honey head dandelion, elderflower umbels lace and tiny lilac lilac starlets. 

There is aways an interesting way to use flowers other than to send flowers or buy them from a florist, says Laxmi Lobo,  a super specialty florist in Mumbai.

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Here is my Back Pack

What a great way to travel. A florist travels with a floral backpack.
This florist in Mumbai cerainly enjoys the looks of this floral backpack.
I travel the world anyways, so why not with flowers? says this Mumbai florist Laxmi Lobo.

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LAVENDER IN PROVENCE

The colour, the texture, and the scent of a lavender field encapsulate for many the essence of Provence.

The lavender in the Luberon blooms from around the last week of June to the beginning of August when it is harvested. It is usually at its peak in early July, but this depends on the rainfall in the year.

Lavender is said to heal insect bites and burns as well as repel insects. It can soothe headaches if you apply it to the temples and it helps you sleep if you have the flowers by your pillow. Dried lavender is used to repel moths in clothes closets. Lavender oil is also said to cure acne. The essential oil has antiseptic properties, it was used in hospitals in the 1st world war to disinfect wards. And of course it’s quite nice in the bath, for aromatherapy, and can be found in household products like room fresheners.

for more read here

I love Lavender and the fragrance of dried lavender springs can be used to enhance the fragrance of a fresh flowers bouquet. In a hot humid month of June in my city Mumbai, a florist knows the tricks to deliver fresh flower bouquet to your house.

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The stunning tulip fields

The stunning tulip fields that look like they have been created with a giant pack of crayons...

A vast patchwork of kaleidoscopic colour, Holland's tulip fields are clearly nothing to be sneezed at.
From the air it looks as though a giant toddler armed with a box of super-sized crayons has been let loose on the Dutch countryside... if the lines weren't quite so perfect.
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Up side down Flowers

I noticed this fun play with flowers while browsing my favorite topic...you guessed it..."flowers" on Google.

Such a simple look but catches your attention. This would make a great table display and various colour contrasts can be used.

You can also try this with coloured glasses and white flowers inside.

Flowers are the easiet art to create, anything looks beautiful because inherently the flowers are beautiful themseleves, the florist has to just add a simple touch, a creative imagination and you always create a stunning display.

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Flowering Parasites

When parasites are flowering they can add so much beauty to your entrance.
Nature is always so beautiful and the colours of all fresh flowers and plants are in mind bogglong shades and hues.

I love flowers of any kind. As a florist I will always notice these colourful gems of nature.

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Dried Flowers look great

Dried or preserved flowers look very attractive.
Tropical Mumbai has scope for drying certain flowers, says laxmi a florist in Mumbai.
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Bright as the sun

A lovely bright Dahlia for you to enjoy.

A florist in Mumbai wishes you a bright day ahead.
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Zucchini Flowers

If the thought of feasting on flowers makes you feel a bit standoffish, then here's food for thought: You may already be eating flowers without realizing it. If your diet includes broccoli, cauliflower or artichokes, you are essentially consuming the flowering bud of the plant. Need further convincing? Flowers have been accenting world cuisines for thousands of years, dating back to the use of chrysanthemums by the ancient Chinese. More..

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Vegetables which are Flowers.

Flowers even provide several important foods and spices. Flower vegetables include cauliflower, artichokes, and broccoli. Saffron, the most expensive spice, consists of dried stigmas of a crocus. Cloves and capers are two more spices. Hops are used to flavor beer. Marigolds are fed to chickens to give their egg yolks a golden yellow color, which consumers find more desirable. Dandelions are often made into wine.

Amazing facts aren't they?

As a florist in Mumbai I spend my day with flowers, everyday I learn more about amazing facts about flowers.

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Contemporary Flower arrangements

High style and sleek look floral arrangements are the rage.
Clean flower lines and unusual mix of flower colours. More

Ask you florist for high style contemporary flower arrangements.
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Floralscapes an art form with flowers

Netherlands-based artist Anne ten Donkelaar designs shadow-boxed collages of intricate floralscapes with roots that dangle and succulents that grow upside down. Layering natural objects and paper bits—magazine cutouts, dried flowers and leaves, pressed paper, and illustrations—she builds landscapes that float like a surrealist's garden. 
Donkelaar describes her foraging process: "A damaged butterfly, a broken twig, a bumblebee, some strangely grown weeds: I find all these unique discoveries in my path and then take them home to my studio." Her flora are both familiar—a photograph of an opuntia cactus and a passionflower—and foreign—a branch with butterfly wing leaves and a flower with feather petals. Playing with scale, texture, and color saturation, she creates contrasts that clarify each detail in the landscape.

Such a beautiful art form with flowers. Mumbai has pretty wild flowers on the buildings and sidewalks and these can be used effectively for floral spaces like this one.

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City of Flowers

Zundert is a city in Netherlands which hosts since 1936 a Flower Parade which is held every year on the first Sunday in September. 

On this occasion, a parade of floats and sculptures flowers of all colors is organized, allowing artists to create beautiful towering sculptures.

I wish India was evolved enough to have such massive yet artistic structures of Flowers, laments a florist in Mumbai, India.

We do massive elaborate and fabulous wedding decorations with flowers in India but to have state sponsored events like the one above is yet a long way off, says Laxmi Lobo.

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