Check out this English country garden which gave new meaning to what ‘sweet flowers’ are.
Unveiled in Russell Square, Camden, it was billed as the world’s first edible garden.
Featuring 250 cake flowers and surrounded by a wall made from 1,300 slices of fruit loaf grouted with Nutella, it took more than 450 hours to bake, build and install.
Its stepping stones were Battenberg cake, its bird bath was lined with Swiss roll and the lawn was dotted with sugar daisies – not forgetting 300 leaves of edible ivy.
Thirty bags of marshmallows, eight kilos of sweets and chocolate pebbles and more than 1,000 biscuits also went into creating the Willy Wonka-esque wonderland crafted by cake designer Rosalind Natalie Stewart where even the insects were edible.
The edible garden was created to launch the paperback version of Carole Matthews’ novel The Cake Shop in the Garden.
Carole said: “The garden is the place where love, life and family collide for my main character, Faye Merryweather so it was really exciting to bring it to life using cake as it features so prominently throughout the storyline.”
Sadly the garden was only open for one day so you’ve missed out on the chance to nibble on it if any the flora and fauna has taken your fancy.
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