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About Permanent Botanicals


We don't call them fake anymore. "Permanent botanicals" is the term currently used to describe botanically accurate flowers that will fool even the most discriminating eye. You will be amazed at the attention to detail given to these blossoms and foliage. The results look fresh and offer months, even years, of enjoyment and beauty in your home, office, or business.


To accurately and artfully reproduce these flowers, floral craftsmen throughout the world use the latest technology in silk, plastics, and painting techniques. They carefully examine a fresh flower or leaf, and recreate it by hand-painting the subtle variations in color on silk or high-tech plastic material. Every detail of the blossom, stem and leaf is replicated, resulting in a flower that looks as fresh and alive as it appears in nature. Only then are the flowers and foliage reproduced en masse.

 

Close-up photo of a peony permanent botanical

Close up photograph showing details of a permanent botanical peony

Close-up photo of a coreopsis permanent botanical

Close up photograph showing details of a permanent botanical coreopsis

Close-up photo of a permanent botanical rose

Close up photograph showing details of a permanent botanical rose

Close-up photo of a permanent botanical rose back

Close up photograph showing details of a permanent botanical rose back and stem

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