Decorating with Fruit and Vegetables

I loved this idea. They used pears but you could use red and green apples or the dark red pears with the golden pears, pomegranates, grapefruit and oranges or avocadoes and heirloom tomatoes (their different shapes and colors) would be gorgeous.  I'm very attracted to arrangements that are made with vegetables, fruit, flowers, nuts and berries.  The simplicity and natural beauty of nature is lovely.

 They used an ice pick to make a small hole in the pear.  You would gage the size of the hole to the amount of flowers you would be putting in the hole.  The juice from the fruit keeps the flowers fresh.  As you can see from the caption, they call these the $10.00 tiny wonders.  Actually, I think you can make them cheaper than that.  A bouquet of flowers at Wal-Mart is about four dollars and I've seen roses at Aldi for three or four dollars.  Last spring for a dinner, I used my lilacs and bought pink roses from Wal-Mart and it made a beautiful arrangement.

I can see these little arrangements on a dessert table placed by different desserts.  As the picture shows, have some fruit sitting up right and some on their side. This time of the year, a huge pine cone with evergreen, some pomegranates with berries and small white roses.  Let your imagination go and you can come up with some wonderful ideas that will look marvelous and be very cost effective.