Online - July 16, 2007

Kind Bud

Wild Hibiscus Flowers in Syrup

If you had to choose between a bouquet of flowers and a bottle of champagne from your sweetie, it would be a toss up (beauty or buzz?).

Thanks to the Wild Hibiscus Flower Company, you can have both. Just drop a bud into a glass of bubbly and watch the magic happen.

The bright red flowers are grown in Australian fields, where they are picked, deseeded, and cleaned by hand. Then they are gently packed in their own crimson syrup without preservatives, additives, or artificial colors or flavors.

Drop one into a champers-filled flute and watch tiny bubbles stream off the opening petals. Down your drink, and you’re left with a beautiful bloom you can eat. (Really. It tastes like raspberry and rhubarb.)

You can also put them in cocktails, soda water, lemonade, or the office punch bowl. Or use them to garnish your world-famous dessert.

That’s what we call flower power.

Available online at wildhibiscus.com.