I am a real addict when it comes to watching Masterchef, both the UK series and the rather more elaborate Australian version. I have watched several seasons in Australia and then watched it all over again when it comes on British television six months later! One of the challenges put to the contestants is to produce a restaurant quality dish by recycling from a huge pile of culinary debris - fish heads and bones, vegetable and meat trimmings, marrow bones, pigs trotters, and even a pig's head (I look away at that point). I love pigs. Anyway, while gardening at the weekend, when I was cutting back fading wallflower plants and the erysimum, which still had a few fresh flowers at the end of each stem, I had the idea for today's vase. Lots of lovely colour would have been completely wasted if it had been dumped in garden recycle bin. I find it almost impossible to discard a fresh flower. So here are a couple of recycled vases of flowers, looking very cheerful on our dining table!
My third vase contains a casualty of the heavy rain overnight on Friday. One of my glamorous girls couldn't cope with the weight of water landing on her lovely head, and she just snapped.
Lovely vibrant colors to brighten a day!
ReplyDeleteI feel the same compulsion to save a flower that has fallen on it's face by bringing it into the house where it can get support and stand regal again.
I am all for using leftovers like this - the recent UK Masterchef had a similar exercise and it really threw some of the contestants. But yes, plants too, and what a lovely result - definitely too good to go on the compost heap
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ReplyDeleteI call it upcycling - color combinations you probably wouldn't have thought of otherwise. My whole garden is Masterchef.
I think this was a great garden exercise. Your results would make any florist proud! I love the Erysimum, something my own garden has been lacking for a couple of years now. And that tulip - she's stellar.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone! Glad you enjoyed the vases! It always amazes me how a new vase emerges each week quite spontaneously! Just goes to show what a great idea Cathy had in the first place - many thanks to her for the inspiration. Amanda x
ReplyDeleteBold and beautiful!
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