{"id":1643,"date":"2014-08-27T17:45:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T17:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:05:09","slug":"veggies-and-flowers-and-herbs-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/veggies-and-flowers-and-herbs-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Veggies and Flowers and herbs, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a unique way to highlight a garden harvest&#8230;.centerpiece style.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_19791-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1654\" src=\"http:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_19791-1094x865.jpg\" alt=\"veggie bouquet\" width=\"1094\" height=\"865\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Front view.<\/strong> For veggies\/herbs, I used Kale, Asparagus, Potatoes, Lemon Geranium, Fig Leaves, Mushrooms, Okra, and a Sweet Pepper. For flowers I used Safflower pods, orange Lilies, lime-green Mums, one Safari Sunset and one purple Tulip (which were all I had in the house).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1982.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1645\" src=\"http:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1982-1094x838.jpg\" alt=\"back of veggie bouquet\" width=\"1094\" height=\"838\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Back view.<\/strong> I made this arrangement to rest on a corner table in the house&#8230;so you really wouldn&#8217;t see the back, but it&#8217;s good practice to fill in all bare spots. And you never know, it might find it&#8217;s way as a centerpiece if an impromptu dinner party happens around here this weekend.\u00a0 So I filled in with lilies and mums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1963-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1652\" src=\"http:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1963-1094x725.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1963\" width=\"1094\" height=\"725\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top view.\u00a0 <\/strong>Really helps see the nesting of the items.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1975-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1653\" src=\"http:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1975-1094x919.jpg\" alt=\"final veggie bouquet\" width=\"1094\" height=\"919\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it is outside on my rustic gathering table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1996-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1662\" src=\"http:\/\/flowersforthepeopleaustin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1996-820x1094.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1996\" width=\"820\" height=\"1094\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here it is on the umbrella table.\u00a0 Yep&#8230;looks like I need to a have a garden\/dinner party soon.<\/p>\n<p>This was really fun mixing veggies and flowers together.\u00a0 The veggies provided such a nice variety of textures and colors, and the herbs smelled great.\u00a0 I added the flowers to make it look more like a floral arrangement rather than just a veggie harvest. So here&#8217;s to celebrating summer&#8217;s bounty. Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a unique way to highlight a garden harvest&#8230;.centerpiece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,55],"tags":[56,57,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flowersforthepeopleblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}