Floral Guides

Whether or not they contain alcohol, cocktails are the perfect remedy after a long hard week at work or simply to sip and enjoy amongst friends. Though there are thousands of cocktail recipes all over the world, here we are going to concentrate on flower-infused cocktails. This is one way to combine an exotic flavour and visual appeal. […]

Source of image: http://goo.gl/v8jlSm Summertime invites us to look after ourselves: we have more free time, we want to try new things and, in addition, the sun and heat can mean that our skin doesn’t look as well and moisturised as we would like. We want you to discover some flower-based beauty treatments to help […]

You might think that adding edible flowers to our dishes is something novel and out of the ordinary, but that’s far from the truth. In actual fact, cooking and decorating with flowers is a tradition that stretches back thousands of years, from the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations through to the present day. So rest […]

As mentioned in our latest post” A Flower garden at home”, floral motifs are the HIT this year.  Floral print decorations are a classic when decorating our homes but this spring and summer floral patterns on clothing will change the side walk into a floral catwalk! The 2011 Spring/ Summer floral collections underline color, humor […]

Pansies’ flowers in a colorful nutritious salad Cooking and garnishing with flowers is trending! Many restaurants, chefs and home cooks garnish their entrees with flower blossoms to give it a special touch.

Spring is here and we start spending more time outside. And it’s not just us- also our cats and dogs enjoy the great outdoors. Spring is a lovely time and if you want to make the best of it, you may want to learn which plants and flowers are safe and which to avoid when taking […]

Martians aren’t the only creatures who come from Mars; men come from Mars, too.  At least that’s what we learn about the red planet from John Gray and his book “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus”. Mars was the god of war in ancient Rome and he was the inspiration for the […]

Would you like to know what flower represents your birth month? And what those flowers mean? Not so fast…… first we need to go over some facts. Flower symbolism began with many ancient religions. During the Renaissance, nature was viewed as a reflection of the divine and in the Victorian times the use of flowers […]