Materials
Silk, Polyester or Latex: What Fades First
Material names on artificial plant listings are close to meaningless. Silk almost never means silk.
Materials and durability
Owen spent years around plastics and coatings before he wrote a word about decor, which is why he is difficult about the phrase UV rated. He runs the fade tests here and reports the ones that go badly as well as the ones that do not.
Materials
Material names on artificial plant listings are close to meaningless. Silk almost never means silk.
Care and Cleaning
The most common way people ruin an artificial plant is not sunlight or moving house.
Room by Room
A reader sent me photographs of his garage last spring and asked whether anything could be done with it.