Comments on: Fresh, faux and fabulous flowers

By: Mel@IronstoneCottage

Mel@IronstoneCottage — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:42:32 +0000

Those bouquets are gorgeous. I think the Jane is my favorite. I love lilacs, but can't handle their strong fragrance (which I love in small doses) indoors. And I'm thinking of all the beautiful vignettes I could photograph, without having to juggle a sunny day with "will the fresh flowers last that long?"

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:44:27 +0000

Living in a Northern climate I can appreciate good looking faux flowers and these do look pretty real to me.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 19:07:56 +0000

It's good to see faux florals are finding a way back into the market. You know that living up here in Alaska fresh flowers isn't something affordable for me to purchase on a weekly basis, not when one peonies runs $12 a stem or 1 dozen grocery stores roses is $35.99.

We have all of three months of fresh flowers blooming in the yard and I treasure each one as they open. I hoard them as they dry and reuse them throughout the year.

That still leaves 9 months of bleak, gray, wintery days and lots of missed opportunities if I "only" using fresh florals. There are so many realistically floral candles now that they more than make up for the lack of scent with faux. For now, I will continue to enjoy both fresh and faux and support everyone who doesn't have the ability to always use fresh blooms.

These Balsam Hill blooms are beautiful! Everything they do is divine and high quality.

By: Wendy Dewar Hughes

Wendy Dewar Hughes — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:11:57 +0000

Fresh flowers are lovely but they're costly and don't last long. I use faux flowers in my house all the time, changing and re-combining them with the seasons.

By: mia

mia — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:28:13 +0000

They are all beautiful that picking one is difficult, but if I had too it would be – Jane.

By: Holly Irwin Fine Art

Holly Irwin Fine Art — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:02:04 +0000

These are just gorgeous and some of the bouquets so romantic and old fashioned! What a sweet way to start the day!

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:33:20 +0000

Gorgeous! I'm still not convinced they faux flowers.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:21:16 +0000

They are all so beautiful! Amazing at how realistic the arrangements are! ????????

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:18:32 +0000

They are beautiful. But I know I would miss the scent of a boquet of lilacs if I had fake ones. And I also think that the a large part of the beauty of a boquet of real flowers is that they are ephemeral…at least for me…and that makes me cherish them even more!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:06:31 +0000

I am delighted by what I'm finding in faux flowers – they are marvelously realistic. These arrangements are fantastic. I love Vita Sackville-West's quote, 'a flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking, but even a solitary vase of a living flower may redeem it'. I'm wondering if she too would find these faux flowers exquisite. Have a great day! Kathy