Silk Flowers Jump Outside the Box.
Now, Decorating with Silk Flowers and Plants in your
garden, couldn't be easier.
In many ways, the methods that you use to decorate the exterior
of your home and property can be just as (or more) impressive
than the house itself. Times are tight for many of us, and
upgrading to your dream home might not be in your near futu
re. Or, if you’re already in your dream
home, you might be wondering how to step up its appearance,
without a big investment of time or money.
Adding a fresh look to the exterior of a home with silk flowers
offers all of us (even those with black, brown, and yellow
thumbs) a fresh, maintenance-free feeling…with a relatively
small investment. The amount of money that you’ll spend to fill
window boxes, outdoor planters, and shady spots with silk
flowers pales in comparison to what you’d spend on decades of
annual plantings.
Window Boxes and Hanging Baskets Don’t have to be Hassles
Window boxes add charm to any home.
o Trailing vines can bring whimsy, while seasonal hues offer
celebration in harmony with nature’s progression.
o A Snow White cottage-in-the-woods mood can be realized with
wooden window boxes filled with small, dainty pastel silk
flowers.
o A regal Southern estate feel can be accomplished with the use
of painted wooden boxes or wrought iron window baskets,
overflowing with elegant vintage silk flowers.
o Or, maybe you’d prefer the feeling of a seaside retreat, made
possible with weathered wooden boxes boasting large, tropical
silk blooms.
When you bring your dream home to you, you feel right at home
while transforming your daily abode to an everyday
sanctuary.
Silk flowers and plants make window boxes easy to maintain.
Boxes filled with authentic blooms require daily watering, can
flower unevenly due to lighting variances, and are difficult to
dead-head and weed. Your choices when caring for these include
spraying water to the high boxes with a hose, teetering at the
top of a ladder, or accessing each box from the interior of the
house. Not one is convenient, and all will become burdensome by
the end of the season.
When filling window boxes with silk flowers, consider combining
colorful, seasonal blooms with silk plants that trail and add
dimension. Be careful to stick with seasonal varieties. If you
leave your silk tulips in through fall, or forget to change out
your silk mums through the winter and spring, the neighbors
might begin to suspect your masquerade.
If you have a green thumb, but simply dislike accessing high
window boxes, you can plant real flowers in ground-level boxes
and fill second and third story window boxes with nearly-real
silk flowers and plants.
Silk flowers in hanging baskets offer visions of summertime
abundance without the hassle. Hanging plants are notorious for
drying out quickly, and trailing botanical flowers and vines
can take an entire season to come to fruition, whereas silk
flowers and plants look amazing from the season’s first day
through the last.
With Silk Flowers, Shady Spots are no Longer Long Shots
How lovely would colorful blooms be beneath your favorite oak
tree? Or along the shady side of the house? Now, with
natural-looking silk flowers, you can have them. Because they
need no sunshine, no watering, and no fertilizer, silk flowers
and plants “grow” under any outdoor conditions.
A Garden in the Distance
If you’ve ever gazed out your back door, to the far corner of
your property, and pictured a rock wall topped with a rainbow
of colorful blossoms, or a fountain spilling with multi-colored
hues of flora…but then abandoned your vision because of the
distance…silk flowers are for you. Today’s silk flowers and
plants are more realistic than ever. If you’re unable (or
unwilling) to haul water to a distant planting spot, consider
using natural-looking silk flowers to design your own private
landscape.
In Conclusion: Go for the Silk Flower Illusion
Whether your green thumb is more like an unrecognizable black
stump, or your busy lifestyle doesn’t allow for wobbling
ladders and treks to far-off garden spots, silk flowers and
plants are the answer to your outdoor decorating conundrum.
Get good grades in your newest exterior decorating lesson. Less
is more. Less watering, feeding, weeding, hauling, money, and
ladder-balancing, that is.
by Jacinda Little - March, 2009
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