Sun, 26 Apr 2015

Welcome to the world’s first entirely edible garden (where the walls are made of fruit loaf and Nutella grouting)

Alison Lynch for Metro.co.uk

Friday 24 Apr 2015 3:28 pm

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Yep, we can’t quite believe it’s real either (Picture: David Parry/PA)

This garden took over 450 hours to bake.

Yes, you did read that right.

The world’s first totally edible garden opened to the public today – in London’s Russell Square – for one day only.

Visitors were encouraged to help themselves to the flora and fauna, made up of Bourbon biscuit borders, chocolate crumb soil, 250 cake flowers and hundreds of chocolate pebbles.

You could even lick the walls, which were built with 1,300 slices of fruit loaf and grouted with Nutella.

(Picture: David Parry/PA)

The garden was conjured up by award-winning cake designer Rosalind Miller, to celebrate the launch of the paperback version of author Carole Matthews’ new novel The Cake Shop in the Garden.

(Picture: David Parry/PA)

In total, the heavenly urban idyll features 15 different types of cake, including stepping stones made from Battenberg and a bird bath made from slices of Swiss roll.

Even the creepy crawlies are edible.

(Picture: David Parry/PA)

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.

‘It was certainly one of a kind – and where better for visitors to grab a slice of the action?’

We’re suddenly feeling very green fingered.