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643 priapic

A slightly priapic group here (there are worse out there!) but it’s interesting the tonal difference between the boxwood and cypress, and how well the wild lavender softens it all. 643

642 topiary bowls

Here’s another example of using outdoor foliage indoors to bridge the gap, and good to use terracotta under the domes - allowing that bay is an Italianate leaf. It’s actually a hotel lobby in the Netherlands, so ‘boy, are they lost?!’ comes to mind. 642

641 fake landscapes handbuilt natural look topiary UV lollipops 1080DEFm

Rather like the bay ball a couple of pictures back, here are a pair of slightly flattened boxwood lollipop shapes which look really good because they aren’t ‘perfect’. One is fractionally taller than the other, too. Makes all the difference. 641

640 fake landscapes 450mm boxwood ball set in custom planters one hyde park

Somewhere in a penthouse high over Hyde Park, this is using outdoor plants inside to bridge the gap between the two along a walkway. The earth coloured planters work really well, too. We were dubious at first, but the designer was right. It happens! 640

639 small topiary with lavender

Simple is best, a nicely wonky 160cm bay ball with some of our dark lavender underneath, in what looks like a40cm cube. Or thereabouts! Again, it’s the asymmetry of the tree that means people don’t take a second glance. As a basic rule, if you can see it’s artificial on a drive-by, that’s a fail! 639

638 gbath teradrops

Not sure why, but these look weirdly like a bunch of Daleks massing to attack! These are our handmade teardrops (hence the subtle shape differences) and rather than being pencil-shapes, they have a more generous waistline - much like the writer. 638

637 fake landscapes 35 and 45cm natural look buxus in clients planters

Just a nice pair of simple staggered planters with custom 34 and 47cm balls in each so they look ‘right’ - rather than over-generous pistachio ice cream cones. We’re on about the seventh generation of our UV buxus leaf – loads of different tones in it, as you can see by how well it goes with the trees in the background. 637

636 fake landscapes teardrop and ball topiary frontage mayfair (2)

That’s a very early townhouse somewhere in W1. The client isn’t here very much, so our stuff makes perfect sense - and will look right regardless of the time of year when they turn up. Those are our slim ‘pencil’ teardrop topiary on the first floor, so that light still gets through those nice tall windows. 636

635 def fake landscapes2m laurel topiary 'lollipops'

More from the same Singapore project (you can tell from the planters…), more big mushroom-shaped laurel trees. They’re not quite as tough as the buxus, but last surprisingly well when there’s an overhanging roof, as here. 635

634 bay cubes

Here’s something from our cubist period. LOL, ROTFL etc. Bay rather than box, and cube shapes work much better when the planters are larger. These are overseas, so we built them as ‘drop-ins’, fully tweaked, so they could be installed hands-off. 634

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