Holiday living arrangements instead of cut flowers in your Boston, MA interior office design.

Holiday Living Arrangement

1. Why living flower arrangements for your Boston office work place? Because they last longer then cut flowers in a vase of water.

2. These creative interior plantscape garden arrangements last longer then your daily or weekly Boston cut flower vase programs.

3. Because of their roots are still in moist soil the flowers can flourish and even grow in these arrangements. Visit our PDIPLANTSBlog.com for more info.

4. The poinsettia thrives in its own soil, which makes them great indoor office plants.  The double amaryllis is actually ready to bloom feeding off of its own bulbous food supply, naturally containing all of its own nutrients that it needs to have bright vibrant blooms.

5. The white and red Kalanchoes last long because the flowers still have their own roots to take up necessary water and nutrients.

6. Lastly the English Ivy, a great interior office plant, can even grow longer and fuller because they have not been manually ripped from they root structure.

7. Plantscape Designs Inc. delivers these living arrangements all across our NE Plantscape and the Boston, MA areas. We give our unlimited plant care service with each arrangement.

Plantscape Designs Inc. of Stoneham, MA services the following area cities and towns in Massachusetts:

Boston, MA Cambridge, MA Wakefield, MA Woburn, MA Peabody, MA Wilmington, MA Tewksbury, MA Methuen, MA Needham, MA Andover, MA Dedham, MA

Andover, MA Westboro, MA Acton, MA Westford, MA Chelmsford, MA Billerica, MA Burlington,MA Bedford, MA Lexington, MA Wellesley, MA Watertown, MA

Lynnfield, MA Danvers, MA Saugus, MA Beverly, MA Salem, MA Reading, MA North Reading, MA Marlboro, MA Southboro, MA Northboro, MA Stoneham, MA

Redesigning The Boston Design Center Boston, MA with Ficus Lyrata green plants.

Plantscape Design Inc. has recently helped redesign the Boston Design Center with live green interior tropical Ficus Lyrata plants (commonly known as Fiddle Leaf Figs) and Architectural Supplements' Earth Wall and Earth Cube containers in a spectacular burnt orange finish.

Boston Design Center needed a green plant tropical presence in their halls and lobby areas to greet talented interior designers from all over New England. The Ficus Lyrata trees were stately but welcoming to all visitors in this Boston, MA location.

Jen, one of twenty, of our PDI plant specialist staff technicians has been servicing this building most recently. Brian, John and Pam installed this massive green plant design of tropical trees, which comprised almost two days of work to install.

Plantscape Designs Inc. of Stoneham, MA 02180 services the following areas:

Griffin Brook Office Park Methuen, MA

Cummings Office Park Woburn and Beverly, MA

Corporation Way / Centennial Park Peabody, MA

Ballardvale Office Park Wilmington, MA

Brickstone Office Park Andover, MA

Nagog Office Park Acton, MA

Westford Corporate Park Westford, MA

Edgewater Office Park Wakefield, MA

Quorum Office Park Chelmsford, MA

Technology Office Park Billerica, MA

The Bedford Professional Park Bedford, MA

 Hobbs Brook Office Park Waltham, MA

Wellesley Office Park Wellesley, MA

Plantscape Designs inc has been servicing interior green office plants in the above office parks for over 40 years.

What was Tulipmania?

1. Like our "dot Com bubble", "Real Estate bubble" and our latest "Banking and "Stocks Exchange" bubbles, the "Tulip bubble "of 1637 in Holland ( Tulipmania ) was our first meltdown of our Western World investment experience.

2. Even the price of the basic plain-Jane varieties rose, as lower income consumers entertained visions of endless worldwide demand centered on Dutch flower beds, a prospect that made the most rash spending of the moment seem like a wise investment, sure to yield future income.

3. And it was not only bulbs being sold for exorbitant prices; would-be growers were also leasing or buying farm property, for which they paid handsomely for the land. This culture-wide frenzy earned the nickname “tulipmania.”

4. Some scholars consider this one of the world’s first economic market bubbles – and bubbles, of course, all pop eventually. It is generally agreed that in February 1637, the prices dropped dramatically, with the rarest breeds falling to perhaps a tenth of their old prices.

5. Some scholars argue that this happened because the sellers got nervous – well aware how inflated the bidding had gotten, they started lowering their asking prices. Other historians suggest that the newly glutted market (consumers of very class now owned tulips, which they could breed) simply dictated that the bulbs were no longer precious, and prices had to be adjusted accordingly.

6. In either case, the result was the same chain of events: When sellers dropped prices for 1637 season, buyers who had already agreed to pay the 1636 prices felt cheated, and panic ensued. Nobody wanted to buy new tulips and everyone was sure the other side would cheat them on the deals they already had.

In many popular retellings of tulipomania, this price drop led to a crash akin to the later Great Depression in the U.S.

At Boston Plantscape Designs Inc we always use colorful varieties of tulips in our "LIving Arrangements" for our Boston cityscapes.

What is Botany and Art?

1. If tulips were so rare, how did everyone know so much about them? Centuries before the internet or television, all goods for sale were rendered in catalogs full of drawings or, in some cases, paintings. The tulips of the 17th-century Holland were immortalized in detailed full-color paintings which stoked the fires of the mania that would follow.

2. With tulips at the heart of the zeitgeist, all the Dutch masters painted at least one or two still lifes featuring the species, including like Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder’s depiction of a bouquet with both Semper Augustus and a Viceroy in a single vase – a pairing that would have made for an extremely expensive arrangement in real life.

3. Judith Leyster, one of the few female masters of the Golden era, almost exclusively focused on portraiture and vivid human tableaux, though she largely eschewed still life, she agreed to paint several pieces for a tulip book, pieces so acclaimed for their depth of color and rich detail that one of them hangs in the Frans Hals Museum.

4. But at least one artist made tulip-painting a vocation, not an exception. Capitalizing on the tulip craze, Jakob Marrel created watercolor after watercolor depicting various tulips in bloom, making a good part of his living for several years this way.

5. Marrel had access to perfect models because his stepdaughter, Maria Sibylla Merian, was a well-known botanist and, under his tutelage, a painter herself. In three years, he created six tulip books, each 50-80 pages. Marrel’s painting were vivid and precise, though also adorned with whimsical flourishes such as a dragonfly flitting by or a butterfly rising out of a blossom.

6. Soon enough, tulip paintings like Marrel’s became sought out by art collectors. As a result, very few of the 43 recorded tulip books are left intact. The individual artworks are scattered among museums and private homes around the world, masterpieces that many viewers might not guess originated in catalogs.

7. Only two complete tulip books remain, one in a private collection, and the other – one of Marrel’s – at the Rijskmuseum in Amsterdam, which displayed it just this year for one of its only public viewings ever. Today, it is not tulips themselves that are most rare, but the Golden Age masterpieces they inspired.

At Plantscape Designs Inc we continually apply flowering "Living Arrangements" near or around your Boston, MA interiorscapes and corporate art work.