Care and Cleaning
How to Store Artificial Plants Between Seasons
Storage is the part of artificial plant care that gets the least attention and does the most damage.
Materials and durability, page 8 of 8
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.
Care and Cleaning
Storage is the part of artificial plant care that gets the least attention and does the most damage.
Materials
Fading is discussed as though it were one process. It is at least three, they look different from each other, and knowing which...
Room by Room
A basement is not simply a dark room. It is a dark room with a different air problem, a different floor, and a ceiling that is...
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.