Flower and Orchid Arrangements

flower and orchid arrangements

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If we’re honest, we personally like simple and loosely structured flower arrangements in whites and greens, with scattered foliage. Maybe with the odd splash of colour to suit the room - almost as if you’d wandered into an idealised English garden in early summer and scooped up a selection of what looked nice.

Our orchids follow the same principle, simple and not too rigid looking, often in oval boats and always nicely curved with a good mass of leaves below.

The pictures here show what might be loosely called our ‘house style’, so if you’re after something that looks like the fireworks at the closing ceremony of the Olympics - or involves pine cones and cinnamon sticks - we probably aren’t your people!

A final light-hearted plea. Whatever you do, please don’t call them ‘faux fleurs’. It’s just so prim - the equivalent of calling a certain part of your anatomy a ‘front bottom’… They’re fake flowers, and they’re brilliantly useful - embrace the idea!

flower and orchid arrangements

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800 fake landscapes giant casual arrangement 100x80cm

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Here’s a nicely textured table or reception centrepiece that defines what we like – it stands around 80cm tall and is about the same across. It’s slightly flattened so it can be used close to a wall, and follows our core principle for arrangements ‘if it looks right, it is right’! 800

801 Fake Landscapes mixed green and white wild arrangement

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This is fun, staying with green and white, and a bare minimum of leaf and flower types in a large low sphere, maybe 60cm across. It’ll look fresh and interesting long after you’ve tired of more structured arrangements. 801

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A splash of colour. We do a lot of these low domes, normally with hydrangeas or peonies, and occasionally with roses – but as a word of warning, the smaller the flower head, the more they cost! The bowl makes a big difference, this is the clients’ own, about 40cm across - and looked like solid silver… 802

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Here’s a wild one, probably over a metre tall and deliberately random with lots of trailing bits – the client wanted the ‘went into the garden and plonked it in a vase look’. It works really nicely to break the formality of the Louis something-or-other table and mirror. 803

804 fake landscapes soft green dome arrangement in clients vase

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Another nice vase, about 45cm across and our take on a low dome with greens and whites. A mixed dome is a fiddly thing to do on several levels, and this one took an awful long time to get right! 804

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Simple is best! Or maybe less is more? Three stems of one of our fab viburnums, plus, of course, four vases, on a sideboard on a hotel landing. Nice light, too! 806

807 Fake Landscapes eucalyptus viburnum maple blossom 1080DEF

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More leaf than flower here, a great mix of different coloured eucalyptus (eucalyptii?) plus some snowballs and buds of maple blossom, the idea being to have an arrangement that looks like it’s going to come out more in a couple of days. 807

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An autumn-ish look, but not intentional – we were playing around with colours and shapes, and ended up with this, which is fab. If we told people we were going to mix artichokes, orange roses and blue thistles, they’d say ‘have you been smokin’ that ole loco weed again, Hoss?’! 808

809 fake landscapes circular table arr Barbados

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This is a good example of the ‘relaxed but formal’ look (on a project in Barbados, too, just to show off!). We did a lot of work on the lilies to get them to look like some were about to open, and others just past their best. As with the ‘budding’ arrangement earlier, it’s important that fake flower arrangements aren’t too perfect. 809

811 Fake Landscapes white, green and purple

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Same project as the last one, with a different colour room – again the vase is too small but this time you can’t see it! Seriously, if you call us and we discuss heights etc, we’ll happily give you a good steer as to what size vase you need to source. Doesn’t have to be Baccarat, either! 811

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Lots of pizzazz and colour here, it’s just our peonies jumbled up in a large fish-bowl vase for a modern restaurant lobby. There’s a trick of the trade here, we put leaves around the stems inside the vase so you don’t get that terrible give-away! 812

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The eagle-eyed among you will notice we’ve moved onto orchids. This pretty much defines what we do (frankly, there isn’t a great deal more anyone can do with them!). It’s a decent-sized cement ‘boat’ vase, and the overall height is close to a metre. 813

814 Fake Landscapes burgundy orchids in 50cm low bowl 1080DEF

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And again, a low bowl 50cm across with red Phalaenopsis orchids plus some nice twiggy bits to soften the lines of the stems. Again, it’s slightly wonky in terms of flower distribution as it’s meant to look like they’re growing and favouring the light – just as our tree in the background is doing! 814

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Another boat vase, this time with some nice afternoon sunlight. This gets close to showing just how good the detail on our orchids is. If you look closely at the middle of most fake orchids, the printing on the petals is poor and the buds are plasticky – we’d put ours up against anything out there and be confident they were way better. 815

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A long way from London SW10! This is an interesting tousled run of orchids, again of different sizes, but also of different types looking like they’ve been there for ages and grown into each other. It actually works really well in a long trough, we tried a very ‘military’ row of stems to start with and it wasn’t nearly as good. 817

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This is a mosaic of arrangements that are some way away from our usual style, but were parts of large projects where fifty or sixty variations on the theme were needed. That sort of volume justifies making samples and so on – but sadly it’s not something that works for a one-off. FYI the upper set were for a bank in Saudi Arabia, and the lower ones for a person that really, really liked rose domes. At home, and on the yacht, and the plane - everywhere, in fact! 818