Plants Everywhere – Unite!
Many’s the dog owner who has tied a kerchief around their pets neck or pulled a sweater over their head.  Did they do this to catch a sneeze or warm a body or did they add these accessories as a bit of visual personality? Methinks it’s the latter.

 And, if we can accessorize our pet animals, what about our pet plants?  Wouldn’t your faithful ficus like a tassel or two or wouldn’t your sixteen-foot palm feel more like a King with its very own crown?  Plants everywhere – it’s time to unite!  It’s time to demand that which has become a birthright to other pets – a bauble, a bangle, a bead.

 Sounds silly?  Maybe a little but lets take the idea a bit further.  We dress our plants with moss top dressing; we place them in decorative containers.  Sometimes we wind itty-bitty white lights through a tree’s canopy or around a palm’s trunk.  What else could we do?  Well top dressings could be green moss instead of Spanish grey.  And the new Poly Pebbles that simulate Mexican Beach Pebbles could be placed on top.  And, just as a beautiful woman wears a diamond and ruby necklace, colorful bromeliads can be used as underplantings.  These are the ways we add bling-bling to interior plants.

 Now, you are the salespeople out there, the designers, the creative ones.  How else can you accessorize plants?  How ‘bout a metal palm “collar” shaped like a crown fastened just under the fronds?  Wouldn’t that be eye-catching?  Think of it in a brass finish or in an oxidized, rusted metallic bronze finish.  What about bamboo poles staged with live greenery in a planter bed?  What about …water features?  Once you start, its hard to stop but, most of all, whether your ideas are feasible or not, cost effective or not, letting your imagination soar is an empowering exercise.  One of these days it just won’t be an exercise but Great Idea #17.

It Could Happen
In fact, a great number of products we use in the industry were created by interiorscapers themselves.  Watering Machines, Plant Paws, SilkBrite, Leaftek, TOPsiders, even Kaddies were all invented, manufactured, and marketed by Scapers who saw a need.  What’s the next need? No telling but there is sure to be one.  It’s all about Creativity and…..Baubles, Bangles, and Beads.