Silk Tree

A Real Ficus Tree?

I am trying to find a real ficus tree. anyone know where i could find one?

We had a real ficus tree years ago. I guess I don't have a green thumb - it kept dropping all the leaves til it was bare. We ended up with an artificial one - I still have it

Silk Flowers - Great Deals

Attractive and pleasing to the eye, no one can convincingly argue against the fact that the presence of flowers usually improves appearances. They have been used from as far back as anyone can remember to add a touch of beauty to a host of things, including hairstyles, and events such as weddings. Unfortunately however, flowers are generally perishable and at times special ones are quite difficult to come by. The price tags attached to these can be quite hefty. The ingenuity of man has surfaced here to save the day though, thus the creation of silk flowers. The silk flowers of which we speak here is not the flower that grows outside on the silk tree, it is in fact the ones made by hand. In other words, they are artificial flowers.

By going this route man has circumvented having access to flowers only at certain times of the year and significantly impacted the cost of beautifying any thing flowers can beautify. If you happen to grow or sell flowers for a living, chances are you may not be too thrilled with the idea of silk flowers. The reason for this is that they may have an unwelcome, negative impact on your livelihood.

The making of did not begin in the last few years or even the last decades; it began hundreds of years ago. Though being credited with originating the idea of the silk flowers, the Chinese is not deemed responsible for turning it into the big business it is today. While the basics of making silk flowers have not changed much since early times, today they provide only a framework for what is now considered in some quarters to be an art. Despite the name silk flowers, silk is not often used in the process these days. The preferred material is now polyester, which is believed to better hold the glues, dyes, and shape of the flowers. Other pluses are that it costs less than silk and is more durable. For more upscale markets silk, cotton and rayon are used.

The silk and polyester in silk flowers only refer to the petals of the flower as the rest is made up of materials including wire, rubber, paper and plastic. Technology has caught up with the making of silk flowers as we now see laser-cutting and die-cutting technologies being employed in the process. The constructed petals, when applied to molds and combined with pressure and heat, attain realistic contours and shapes. Unlike with the cutting process however, the painting of the petals is painstakingly done by hand with the use of cotton or brushes. It is not unusual to find this part of the process taking place in locations where intensive hand labor is readily available such as China and Thailand. The finished flower is attached, along with leaves in some cases, to stems made from wire.

The end product is indeed a work of art and at times if not examined from up close it is impossible to tell they are artificial. Some of these silk flowers are even made to smell like the real thing. So when next you happen to attend a wedding, or official function, check out the flowers up close, you could be looking at silk flowers.

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A Tree for Emmy List Price: $15.95 Sale Price: $12.44 You save: $3.51 (22%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product Description Emmy loves trees. She loves oak trees with acorns. She loves pine trees with cones, and willow trees with swishy branches. But best of all, Emmy loves the mimosa tree that grows in her grandmother s pasture. Emmy swings on its branches, plays with its fuzzy pink blossoms, and rattles its seedpods like maracas. But when Emmy decides she wants a mimosa tree of her own for her birthday, she is dismayed to find that many grown-ups do not share her enthusiasm. Garden stores only sell ornamental trees like plum or pear or tulip trees. Emmy is crushed until she discovers that the answer to her problem is growing right before her eyes! This joyful story of a spirited young girl s steadfast affection for a wild mimosa tree will appeal to all who cherish a special dream, and will help readers appreciate the natural world around them. Illustrator Tatjana Mai-Wyss s whimsical watercolor and collage illustrations capture Emmy s exuberant personality and the story s hopeful ending.

A King-Size Bed, a Silk Tree, and a Fry Pan List Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $11.69 You save: $3.30 (22%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product Description Believing that the wisdom acquired in a lifetime is as much a part of a family’s legacy as are all of its material possessions, Phyllis Dolislager uses stories from her family’s lives to illustrate what’s truly important to her and her husband. Following the Judeo-Christian tradition of an Ethical Will or a Last Will and Testament, she put together this spiritual document, her Testament, for her family. Stories of trusting God, helping others, as well as struggles faced, make this book meaningful not only to her family but to all who read it.

Silk Tree Guanacaste Monkeys Earri Part3 (Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden Volume 74, Part 3, Issued June 30, 1998) Sale Price: $29.00   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item. See Reviews For This Product

Under the Silk Cotton Tree: A Novel (Emerging Voices Series) Sale Price: $9.95   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product Description A portrait of growing up on Grenada where 'news travels faster than African drums' and camivals literally embrace the entire island

From Kauri Trees to Sunlit Seas: Shoestring Shipping in the South Pacific See Reviews For This Product Description Don Silk built his first boat, the "Patsy Jean", with a book on boat building in one hand. Constructed from specially milled Northland kauri, it was launched at Opononi, on the Hokianga Harbour, and in 1959 he set off for Rarotonga with his wife and baby daughter. Scarcely more than a decade later he was the co-owner, with Bob Boyd, of the highly successful inter-island shipping company Silk & Boyd, based in the Cook Islands. At their peak in the 1970s, they operated a fleet of three vessels and moved thousands of tonnes of cargo around the South Pacific, as well as to the various international destinations. This work recounts Silk's adventures in the Pacific over nearly four decades. During this time, vessels were bought and sold, rebuilt and wrecked; cargoes of coconuts and corned beef, pineapples and pearl shells were transported, along with crazy English beachcombers and Mormon missionaries complete with bicycles. The excitement of hurricanes and shipwrecks, stowaways and drunken sea captains was matched by the challenge of outwitting officialdom, as Silk endeavoured to explain, on one occasion, a shipment of arms and, on another, a cargo of liquor worth more than a million dollars.

Practical method for the cultivation of mulberry trees, raising of silk worms, cocoons, etc. List Price: $15.75 Sale Price: $12.29 You save: $3.46 (22%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product Description This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Voices from a Silk-cotton Tree Sale Price: $10.97   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item. See Reviews For This Product

A Methodical Treatise On the Cultivation of the Mulberry Tree, On the Raising of Silk Worms, and On Winding the Silk from the Cocoons List Price: $23.75 Sale Price: $18.53 You save: $5.22 (22%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product Description This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.