The branches of your Christmas tree are excellent flavour enhancers. Also René Redzepi of the Danish Noma sees fir as an excellent ingredient to spice up his dishes. “At my restaurant we use their needles as a spice. You can cook with a branch of spruce or fir as you would use a sprig of rosemary or thyme.”

Yes, you can eat your Christmas tree needles (assuming it's a spruce, fir, or pine). In fact, once you know how to unwrap the delicious flavors of your Christmas tree in the kitchen, you might just want to start eating edible conifer trees year round. You'll find out how in this Edible Christmas Tree Guide!

To do this, you'll want to cut each of these fruits into slabs about one half to one inch thick. Then using flower-shaped cookie cutters of all sizes, press down and cut out the shapes. Be sure to include some larger and much smaller flowers - you'll want to stack them together to make two-tone blooms in the next step.

Fir, spruce, and pine are all safe and delicious. These are also the most commonly bought trees. Avoid cedar and cypress, which are less common but inedible. Yew trees are "incredibly poisonous" and should never be eaten.

Take-Home Messages: Christmas tree preservatives aren't necessary. Commercial preservatives may cause stomach upset and vomiting in children and pets who swallow them. Home-made preservatives may contain ingredients that are harmful to children and pets.

And now I'm gonna place all my kill around it it's really easy just stick it on the side. You don't need to pack. It or anything. Once you put all the skewers it's gonna get really nice and tight.

For this flower we'll use the largest three and we'll start with our largest petals. Make a log of gum paste as you can see ours is already colored. Line it up along the bottom of your modelling board

Christmas trees can be fresh-cut, potted, or artificial and are used as both indoor and outdoor decorations. While the trees are traditionally associated with Christian symbolism, their modern use is largely secular.

Cookies are the easiest way to make edible Christmas trees. You can choose almost any style of cookie dough and cut it into a Christmas tree.

Some suggest that it was inspired by the paradise tree, a symbol of the Garden of Eden that featured in a medieval play about Adam and Eve. Others believe the Christmas tree evolved from Christmas pyramids, wooden structures decorated with evergreen boughs and religious figures.

Christmas tree food or tree preservative helps a cut tree take water, while discouraging mold, mildew, and algae. It's essentially the same as floral preservative, except you make it in a bigger batch because trees drink a lot of liquid.

Fruit Arrangements are typically made with a combination of strawberries, apples, melons, pineapples, bananas, oranges and other seasonal fruit.

What is flower food made out of? Ingredients between different brands can vary, but most flower food packets contain mostly sugar, a little citric acid and a tiny bit of bleach. The citric acid balances the pH level of the water which means flowers will be able to drink faster and reduce wilting.

Like other consumable plants, edible flowers vary in flavor, elevating baked goods, cocktails, soups, omelets, and more. The simplest entry point is to use petals as a garnish, like fresh herbs, but we're not suggesting you indiscriminately pluck a bunch of wildflowers and scatter them on your salad.

Edible flowers are flowers that can be consumed safely. Flowers may be eaten as vegetables as a main part of a meal, or may be used as herbs.

There's more to these festive favourites than meets the eye.

• At Wakehurst, we are getting ready to light our incredible living Christmas tree.
• There are many different species.
• Decorating trees gained popularity in the 1800s.
• Nuts and candles were used as decorations.
• The UK's tallest living Christmas tree.
• Tough giants.