Cloves – the warm and rich-smelling bud
Cloves are very popular, especially now in the winter season With their warm, woody scent, they bring a Christmas feeling into our living rooms. They also look good as decoration. For example, you can decorate an orange with cloves. That looks nice and spreads a good smell. Even more beautiful they are in Maria Dänzer’s spice bouquets. Originally the clove tree comes from Indonesia, more precisely from the Moluccas But today they are also grown in Madagascar, Zanzibar, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia. One plant produces about 3 kg of cloves per year. The cloves are the not yet risen flower buds of the plant. They…
Spice bouquets by Maria Dänzer
Spice decorations – wonderfully fragrant Today I want to show you what you can do with spices – except cooking, of course. You can make wonderfully fragrant decorations. Maybe you know potpourries or ornate oranges which are easy to make. Maria Dänzer – The spice binder I would like to introduce you to someone special. Maria Dänzer who enriches various markets in Ticino, Switzerland, with her beautiful spice bouquets. She is a professional gardener and flower binder and started to make spice bouquets in the 80’s. As a native of Salzburg, she knows these little bouquets well, as they were first made there. They are often called Biedermeier bouquets…
