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453 fake landscapes Grosvenor Crescent London cypress trees

By one of those odd coincidences, this is just along Grosvenor Crescent from the Lanesborough - but for a different client and a few years earlier, in 2011. These are the slightly wild-looking cypresses we build - they work better from a distance than tightly clipped ones. 453

452 fake landscapes formal bay topiary and cypresses The Lanesborough SW1

This is the back entrance of the Lanesborough Hotel on Hyde Park Corner. Quite apart from the lovely light (lucky!), it’s a nice example of a mix of our more formal shapes, with laurel topiary balls and hedges as well as clipped cypresses. 452

491 fake landscapes rosemary and lavender extended window box

These lavender/rosemary boxes work well with funkier flats and a mews or cottage type house. It’s a very subtle splash of colour. Yes, we know lavender only flowers in June, but there are lots of purple-y things that bloom all year round, so they look pretty plausible! 491

490 fake landscapes 28cm UV buxus with white heather in 90cm planter

This is a sort of hybrid of classical and modern, and looks fab here where it’s on a raised ground floor, so the heather frames the boxwood as you look up. The grey planters aren’t from us, but wouldn’t be hard to find – and they go really well with it all. 490

489 fake landscapes funky purple heather window boxes

Again, there’s no harm in having a splash of colour in a basement, and our heather lets you use very narrow custom window boxes and still get a decent density. There are lots of colours - someone once did orange and purple alternating, but to our shame we never got a picture of it! 489

488 fake landscapes soft bay hedges in clients window boxes

Once window boxes planters get larger, you have the option to use laurel balls as well. They have a larger leaf than buxus, and are a really nice dark green. Again, as we make these ourselves from scratch, you can have the exact size that fits. They tend to look best when they run into each other a bit, as here. 488

487 fake landscapes mixed modern deep window box

This is another variation of the ‘hipster’ with mixed planting in silver and grey, but we’ve left open areas of slate so it looks better when looked down on from above. Handy for basements (sorry ‘lower ground floors’) for example. 487

486 fake landscapes teardrop and ball buxus and ivy window box

If the other window box with ivy was the Mayfair, this is the Kensington! A little more privacy and shape here, and again scalable to much bigger planters. Definitely not symbolic of anything, either… 486

485 Fake Landscapes Connaught soft buxus hedge window boxes

This is part of a long run of 90cm planters on a parapet, about 12m in all. They’re fixed down securely from inside the container, and the hedge is meant to look like individual balls that have grown together. So it’s continuous, but has contours like a caterpillar – if that makes sense! 485

484 good window box hip

Here’s a set of three 65cm window boxes with what we call a ‘hipster mix’ of plants – silver, green and a splash of colour. Even though the plants are nicely jumbled, having three boxes rather than one long one keeps it tidy. It’s also in bright sunlight, where lesser fake plants fall down - but we’d challenge anyone to notice ours weren’t real. 484

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