Delicooks

Ingredients
1.5l warm water
1 medium-large glass bowl or vase
2 handfuls of kumquats
20 tulips
20 large roses
20 carnations
20 Persian buttercup
2 hellebores

Method
1. You’ll need large, round glass bowl.
2. Wash it, rinse and dry well.
3. Bias cut all stems so that they measure between 5 and 10 cm. length (you’ll use these to make a grate in the center of the bowl).
4. Start lining the walls of the bowl with small groups of 5 or 6 flowers of the same type (the petals something pressed against the glass and stalks pointing toward the center).
5. Slowly rotate the bowl and continues to add flowers, so that different groups are separated by layers.
6. From time to time, interweave some tulips.
7. In the center a grid amde from the stems will have formed. Keep adding layers of flowers in the same way until about 5 cm. from the top.
8. You can now top the grid with flowers.
9. When you’re happy with how it looks, press down lightly and slowly pour water to fill three-quarters of the bowl’s volume.
10. Place the container in a suitable location and finish filling with water.
11. Surround the base of the bowl with some fruit and / or leftover petals.