succulents – My Botanical Garden

In my previous post I was obviously not clear enough, so I owe an apology to my dear readers. And here is my second try:

Don’t ask me about plastic flowers, I simply can’t stand them. It is a bit irrational, perhaps, so when I saw these perfect rows of plastic succulents, they made me rethink the aesthetic of fake plants. And their raison d’etre. This was the title of my last post all about.

Plasticulents-protecting or destroying environment?

The answer:

There are many endangered plant species, and it seems having their portraits in plastic for the decoration purposes might help them not to get extinct. But what do we get in return?

In addition to creating safety problems during production, many chemical additives that give plastic products desirable performance properties also have negative environmental and human health effects – See more at: http://ecologycenter.org/plastics/ptf/report3/#sthash.D0SatFeX.dpuf

Obviously a bad deal! No gain according to environment there! What about the aesthetics? Ignoring my negative attitude towards plastic plants you may consider this quote:

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
John Updike-from:http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/topicquote/flowers

Is this time the explanation plastic enough?

And to end in style- I coined the world ”plasticulents” (do you like it? ) , but do you know the world ”plasticulture” is a real one?

The term plasticulture refers to the practice of using plastic materials in agricultural applications.Plasticulture ag plastics include soil fumigation film, irrigation drip tape/tubing, nursery pots and silage bags, but the term is most often used to describe all kinds of plastic plant/soil coverings. from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic