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780 better 2017 PVS Ruscus 2

Following on from the previous ilex picture (assuming you’re scrolling forward…) this 2+m high ‘widescreen’ tree is made from exactly the same leaf and exactly the same wood! The canopy is also about 2m wide, but only extends about 60cm into the space, as it’s located on (very hip!) concreted walkway between two buildings hence the dappled sunlight. That’s quite a tall pot, so the whole thing ends up a whisker under 3 metres high. 780

779 a turki ilex crop

Takes the idea of an umbrella tree to a nice conclusion! This is bonsai-sized, around 70cm tall, with a nest set of tiny trunks and a canopy of ilex leaves that are only about a centimetre across. Nice pot and stand from the designer, this is part of a larger project in a bank in Saudi Arabia. 779

778 fake landscapes handbuilt 210cm spring chestnut tree

Here’s a nice oddity – it’s a completely unstructured tree built on flexible trunks and looks like the sort of sapling you see in woodland in springtime. That’s why we call it a spring tree… It’s in a sort of modern-formal room here, but looks just as good in a steampunk industrial setting. 778

777 podo pool 30 nov 1080

Bonsai alert, with added ‘cloud tree’ elements, and a decent 180cm tall. There’s probably a Japanese word for ‘Big Bonsai’ (how about ‘Big Bonsai’? Ed.) This is with a podocarpus leaf, built on a steel plate so it appears to grow from the ground - and one of a pair going between the pool and the changing rooms, as you do! 777

776 fake landscapes handbuilt umbrella camellia tree 195cm

Probably our most popular hand-built tree, you’ll see the camellia being used on a much grander scale in the large trees section. This shows the umbrella shape we favour for nicely, plus a funky pot. As no live tree grows that neatly at that height, you can probably guess we’ve added all the smaller branches. Add ‘fine joinery’ to skill-set we use to make these! 776

775 fake landscapes handbuilt red acer 225cm

Our large red Acer leaf on a nearly black one-piece trunk on which we’ve left the wild bits of wood untrimmed. There are actually two trees in the picture, that’s another one on the far side of the column so the foliage goes all the way round. Nice house and nice lighting, too. 775

675 fake landscapes liana 4m FR cam for el Pastor production sample

We don’t show many workshop pictures, preferring ones in the final location. This was a really pretty 4m camellia that ended up in a bar-restaurant in the hip part of King’s Cross (isn’t it all nowadays?!) and got lost among the aluminium ventilation tubes and hanging giant lightbulbs… 675

673 Fake landscapes Lobby palms 02

Yes, that’s an enormously tall Washingtonia palm in the lobby at a project at Al-Khobar. It’s nine metres tall – and the bloke isn’t deliberately in there for scale, he was just passing - hence the suspicious look on his face. Does the job, though! 674

673 fake landscapes 270cm ficus alii

The second of our off-the-shelf big trees, this is a 3m ficus alii (it would also pass as a longifolia or a mango) and must have been freshly assembled when the picture was taken, as it’s got a terrible case of ‘bed hair’! Fake leaves need to be tweaked to make the shape as natural as possible, and we’re not beyond using hot air blowers to get it perfect as well. 673

672 foster apple dec 20

This is a prototype 5m ficus longifolia we built for an architect’s practice, as an option to replace the (struggling) live ones in a well-known technology company’s showrooms. Their name escapes our mind, it’s a fruit of some sort… 672

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