Almost every piece of artificial greenery we are asked to rescue was perfectly well made. The fault is rarely the manufacturing — it is a decision taken early, usually before anyone stood in the room with a tape measure. The seven mistakes that come back to us most often, and what to do instead.
Monthly Archives: November 2026
Bougainvillea, lemon and other Mediterranean fruit trees, built in-house in Jdeideh: why the real ones struggle indoors, how a climber is built around the structure it lives on, and what to specify before you order.
Clinics and spas put unusual demands on greenery: no soil near treatment areas, nobody free to water, corridors too narrow for planters and humidity that defeats cheap foliage. A practical guide to what works in reception, corridors, treatment rooms and wet zones.
Outdoors, the planter usually gives up long before the tree does. What a Lebanese summer actually does to a container — UV, heat movement, trapped water and wind — and how an outdoor planter is specified, drained, weighted and finished so it lasts.
Six things tell you most of what you need to know about an artificial tree. Five you can check with your hands; the sixth is a question you have to ask out loud. A practical buyer’s checklist — trunk, branch joints, foliage, UV rating, weighting and who can repair it.
Stand close to a green wall that does not quite work and you will usually find the same leaf repeated a few thousand times. The colour may be good, the panels may be level, the coverage may be dense — and it still reads as a manufactured surface rather than planting. The problem is not […]
