Saw something mad but brilliant this morning....

Spanish Eyes

We called over to friends for a cup of tea this morning.

They have a 100ft long garden similar to our own.

Patio at the top with lovely climbers and so on, and similar along the fence.

But down the back they have lots of lovely pots of very colourful flowers. Looking from the kitchen down it was a wonderful sight.

The friends then told me these flowers were not real :eek:

What a brilliant idea! No watering needed and you couldn't tell from so far away.

I think I will copy this.

DANNY2014

That's plain cheating...

Spanish Eyes

DANNY2014 wrote: »

That's plain cheating...

Yup, but brilliant. No dragging a hose down the end of the garden, no fertilising, no deadheading, fkn brilliant.

Remember it is only at the end of a very long garden. Binoculars would be required from the patio area to investigate this travesty!

I will copy.:D

mylittlepony

Where did they buy their outdoors fake flowers.
i seen lovely indoors fake flowers in dunnes and tk maxx but too expensive and pretty to be ruined outside.
What their secret

Spanish Eyes

mylittlepony wrote: »

Where did they buy their outdoors fake flowers.
i seen lovely indoors fake flowers in dunnes and tk maxx but too expensive and pretty to be ruined outside.
What their secret

I didn't ask but I will soon!

Places like Heatons and Guineys have them, but I never would have thought of shoving them in pots outdoors, down the back of the garden.

Just thinking, they could also be taken out in Autumn and put in the shed, to reappear the next year!

I am so taken by this idea I am giddy....

shel64

I have popped a few fake flowers in my hanging baskets before now along with the real ones, and a few in window box too,

mylittlepony

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I didn't ask but I will soon!

Places like Heatons and Guineys have them, but I never would have thought of shoving them in pots outdoors, down the back of the garden.

Just thinking, they could also be taken out in Autumn and put in the shed, to reappear the next year!

I am so taken by this idea I am giddy....

Or put into vases for indoors use for a pop of colours in the autumn or pick out flowers that suit autumn - yay two birds one stone.

looksee

Dunno, I can almost always spot fake flowers pretty much immediately, and none of them last very long outside.

Spanish Eyes

looksee wrote: »

Dunno, I can almost always spot fake flowers pretty much immediately, and none of them last very long outside.

Yes and I always thought I could too. But we are talking 100ft down the end of a garden and all you see is colour and (fake) flowers that look great!

Oldtree

Down with that sort of thing.....

Nothing in my garden apart from the pots and baskets gets a watering and even then it's lean. Awful waste of water amd time otherwise imo. Plan your garden to your climate.