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    Real flowers and artificial flowers – both fabulous


    October 30th, 2021 - Tips and inspiration

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    I’ve recently discovered some online artificial flowers from Alex James

    that I think are beautiful and look wonderful either on their own or mixed with a fresh supermarket bunch.

    I aim to have a few flowers in the hall, living room and kitchen all year around and do that by having just two or three stems in a nice old vase.  You can see some of them here How to have cut flowers from your small garden

    Newly discovered lifelike flowers

    Up to now I’ve pooh poohed any kind of artificial flower or greenery.  I go around fingering arrangements in public places turning my nose up when I find a plastic leaf or a silk orchid.  Too many dirty dusty plastic flowers in the 1970s had made me rather snooty.  I doubt I’m the only one.

    Lately though the artificial flowers on offer have transformed my opinion of them.

    Here is my first attempt at a mixed vase

     

    and

    Real of artificial?

    You can compare the two below

    red rose

    Artificial red rose

    and

    My current experiments with artificial flowers

    Here a vase of a mixture of Alex’s flowers

    and here is a vase with a few alstroemeria in water with added artificial clematis, soft peach rudbeckia, anemone and hellebores.

    Here are half a bunch of supermarket roses mixed in with artificial nigella, lisianthus, astrantia and cosmos.

    flowers in a vase

    Vintage vase, roses, astrantia, nigella and cosmos

    I particularly like the Aged pink rose

    If I had such a lovely rose growing in the garden I wouldn’t want to cut it and thus shorten its life but now I can grow roses and cut a few now and then

    AND have big blowsy ones for bigger vases.

    I’m wondering what other people’s thoughts and opinions are about artificial flowers – I’d love to hear.

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    Best wishes to all,  Julie

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    2 comments on "Real flowers and artificial flowers – both fabulous"

    1. Linda says:
      31st October 2021 at 12:20 pm

      Do you have more posts? I can only see them through April 22.

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        31st October 2021 at 1:19 pm

        Oh dear. That’s odd. I’ve been posting since 2016 so there are about 90 plus. Could you try putting a word in the search bar, say daffodils or winter or bulbs or compost. Something like that. I’d be grateful if you’d tell me if that works. If not, I need to ask someone to look at that. Thanks Linda.

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