Arranging flowers is an art form. There are so many varieties of flowers, with so many colors and aromas, that one would never run out of combinations. However, the simplest of floral designs is always the best, and when it comes to silk floral designs, Upside Living offers the most delicate designs and elegant arrangements that you will find.

Our silk floral designs, are created by Laurie Burke, of Immortalis Botanicals. An appropriate name, since her creations will not wither and die but will instead live on forever, to be used time and againas accent pieces for your parties, or simply for your everyday living space.

Each piece comes with one or two types of flowers, delicately juxtaposed so that one shape of flower sets off the other, as one color of flower sets off the other.

Take, for example, the design of lavender lilacs and white roses, set off in a cut-glass Baltic vase.

Or pink peonies and white calla lillies in a clear gourd vase.

Indeed, the vase is just as important as the flowers in these arrangements. Use the wrong shape of vase and the entire design of the flowers is thrown out of kilter.

Picture the oriental beauty of four Calla Zantedeschias in a flair square vase, or a floral flask vase with floral flask with yellow forsythia and twig vine arranged within.

And what better vase for apink dendrobium orchids then a tall crystal flute
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If you’re feeling jaded with clear glass vases, regardless of their elegant shape, consider a ram’s horn vase of white, with white water lilies, orange pincushion proteas and wetland grass.

Simplicty and elegance: those are the hallmarks of the classic silk floral designs.