MakeBeLeaves - Custom Silk Trees and Plants

Make Be-Leaves recently installed several custom plantings of UV Outdoor artificial white gardenias at a Mediterranean style Bel-Air estate. The designer selected the Italian rectangular fiberglass planter in a bronze finish, to compliment the bronze accents on the balconies.

These UV stabilized artificial white gardenias are one of the most natural-looking outdoor plants available: a simple, elegant look - perfect for exterior areas where live flowers and plants are difficult to keep alive and maintain.

Make Be-Leaves was contacted by the owner of The Core Group, John Goodman, to custom design a 12 ft tall silk Bamboo Planting for their new corporate office lobby in Chino, CA. The custom silk bamboo palms on natural bamboo poles extend along the main glass wall as you enter the lobby, creating a warm, inviting “wall”, while still allowing light to come through the silk bamboo.

The offices are very contemporary, and the custom silk plantscaping of silk bamboo trees and silk sanseveria plants along the hallways are a wonderful enhancement to the overall design of the space.

This past summer, Make Be-Leaves was awarded a contract to construct custom 14 ft. silk Ficus Trees for the new upscale Earl’s Court food court building in the financial district of Manhattan.

Make Be-Leaves just completed the new Vallarta supermarket store located in Palmdale. These natural preserved phoenix palms are custom constructed onto existing interior structural columns – transforming the stores into a dramatic tropical theme.

Make Be-Leaves worked closely with designer, Jeffrey Hitchcock, in designing custom park-like silk Camellia Leaf Trees for the new upscale Westside German Shepherd Rescue facility in Los Angeles. This beautiful facility has a wonderfully inviting cape-cod style, with state-of-the-art technology throughout.

These custom silk Camellia Leaf Trees create a feeling of being in the outdoors - as you stroll along the main corridor.

Make Be-Leaves’ most recent project with the design firm, Interspec, is the new offices of Mr. Copy located in San Diego. Under an extremely tight time frame due to a grand opening event at their new facility, Make Be-Leaves produced and delivered within several days custom silk arrangements, including several silk escheveria arrangements, and several silk silver agave plants.

The silk silver agave plants planted in the tall, fiberglass planters are a great look for a contemporary setting.

Make Be-Leaves has provided custom silk trees, silk plants and silk floral arrangements to V.A. Medical Center facilities throughout the country. Being on GSA government contract for over twenty years, has given Make Be-Leaves the opportunity to provide custom silk plantscapes to a wide range of government facilities throughout the world.

We recently installed custom silk artificial trees, silk plants and silk florals for the Temecula V.A. Medical Center.

After our installation was completed, Christine Alvarez, the purchaser for the Temecula V.A.

In a previous blog, I talked about a large project we were working on for the Vocus corporate headquarters in Beltsville, MD – and included a few photos of the custom silk trees and custom silk plantings before being loaded on a full 53 ft. truck container.

Make Be-Leaves has been working on a variety of sleek, contemporary silk arrangements for the Ameristar Chicago suites. For the silk arrangements in the tall glass vase with the single stem allium ball, Make Be-Leaves provided custom glass top enclosures, so these custom silk arrangements will never need to be dusted or cleaned! All these custom silk arrangements are secured with clear resin - creating a clean, fresh look of water.

The photos of these custom silk arrangements were taken at the prestigious Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village prior to shipping to chicago

On my recent trip to England, I arranged to meet with owner, Sarah Leather, of Green Interiors. Sarah provides custom artificial trees on real wood trunks - very similar to Make Be-Leaves in England. In addition, she provides live plantscaping.

Sarah is currently in the process of moving into her new facility called The Straw Barn which I was able to walk through during our meeting. The interior thick walls of her new facility are actually made with straw.