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Artificial Flowers

Artificial garden rose spray stem with open blooms and tight buds, styled in a room setting

Artificial Flowers

Artificial garden rose spray stem with open blooms and tight buds, styled in a room setting

Artificial Flowers

Artificial garden rose spray stem with open blooms and tight buds, styled in a room setting
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Working with artificial flower stems

Four things worth knowing before you buy a stem.

How do you cut an artificial flower stem?

Every stem here has a wire core, which will destroy scissors and most craft snips. Use floristry wire cutters or small side cutters, cut at a slight angle, and cut longer than you think — you can always take more off. If the cut end is sharp, crimp it flat with pliers before it goes near a hand or a glass vase.

How do you make artificial flowers look real in a vase?

Three things do most of the work. Vary the height — never leave stems at the length they arrived. Bend the wire so no two stems rise at the same angle, and let one or two lean out past the rim. And use fewer flowers than feels right: real arrangements have gaps, and the gaps are what make an arrangement read as picked rather than bought.

Do artificial flowers fade in sunlight?

Yes, all of them, and nothing sold as UV-proof is genuinely permanent indoors. Cheap surface dyes go badly within one season in a south-facing window. Away from direct sun you should expect years rather than months — and once colour has gone, there is no bringing it back, so this one is worth getting right when you choose where it stands.

How do you clean them?

A soft make-up brush for detail, or a hairdryer on cold from about thirty centimetres for a whole arrangement. Silk and coated petals can take a barely damp cloth; dried and preserved stems cannot — keep those dry and dust only.

The range

Where to start

Every flower here is a single stem or spray. What separates them is how much of a room each one is willing to carry.

  • Artificial RosesThe flower most people reach for first, and the hardest to get right. Quality shows in the outer petals, where a real rose has already started to open and curl back.
  • Artificial PeoniesThe volume flower. One open head does the work of three roses, which makes it the cheapest way to fill a wide vase.
  • Artificial OrchidsHeight and line with almost no width. One arching stem in a tall narrow vase is a finished display on its own.
  • Artificial PoppiesTissue-thin petals on a nodding neck. As a cut flower it gives you two or three days, which is why most people only ever see it in photographs.
  • Artificial ChrysanthemumsDense, tightly packed heads that hold their shape from any angle. The one to use when you want fullness without a dozen stems.
  • Daisies & CosmosSmall heads on thin stems, informal and slightly untidy. They loosen an arrangement that has come out looking too arranged.
  • Branches & BlossomLine and height rather than colour. Long, bare and irregular, for a floor vase or an empty corner where a bouquet would disappear.
  • Other Flower StemsThe ones that do not belong to a family — anemones, scabiosa, thistles, irises. Where to look when an arrangement needs one unexpected thing in it.
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