Coated Cemetery & Garden Outdoor Silk Flowers
We offer coated Cemetery and Garden silk flowers that will out last any other silk flower in today's market place. Our memorial and garden silk flowers are made from the finest florist quality silks, and coated with a scented, flexible, durable UV-resistant coating. We have spent 5 years testing and perfecting our unique coating process.
Just walk around a cemetery and you will see how faded and wilted cemetery silk flowers become after only a few months. Our coated cemetery silk flowers will last well over 1 year in all types of weather. Call your local florist and ask about a cemetery silk floral arrangement. They will charge between $45 and $80 for silk flowers that will only last 3 or 4 months before fading and wilting. Most of the florists are honest about how long they will last in your area. The useful display life depends on what part of the country you are in, and how close to the sun you are. Outdoor silk flowers in New York will last longer than those in Florida.
Using common sense we know that silk flowers are delicate. The weathering effects of driving rain, snow, extreme heat, dew, and the sun will deteriorate these delicate flowers in short order. If you arrange your own silk flowers purchased from Wal Mart or a craft store, you may spend $15 to $30. Again, they will only last a few months before they start to fade. Do this 3 or 4 times a year and you will end up spending $60 to $100 a year. Other than using plastic flowers, there are no alternatives to a long lasting outdoor silk flower arrangement . Our coated outdoor artificial silk flowers will add color to your outdoor displays all year round.
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Scientific Testing Results
Many silk flower Web sites claim their cemetery flowers will last with continuous outdoor exposure. Well, we have tested many of these flowers and found that they don't stand up to their claims. Because it's made of "Poly Silk", they say that they will last outdoors, but won’t say how long. If they do make a claim it is usually greatly exaggerated and has no scientific proof. We have proof!
We have used poly silk flowers in our tests and all of our products are made of poly silk. Almost all silk flowers manufactured nowadays are made of some type of poly silk and very few are real silk. However when exposed to the Florida sun, the uncoated poly silk flowers fade out just as fast as any other silk flower. Some may spray a craft clear coat like Krylon over the flowers, but this will only turn the color of the flower milky in time and has no UV protection. It will also leave the flowers looking glossy and unnatural.
We have spent thousands of dollars on accelerated UV exposure tests on our coated flowers and the photos below show the scientific results. Two identical rose petals were placed side by side. One was coated and the other petal was uncoated. They were exposed using a 2 inch circle simulating the noon day sun of Miami Florida for a one year period. Test photos were taken every 3 months. The uncoated petals showed signs of were conducted February 2005 by Solar Light, Inc., a leader in scientific accelerated ultraviolet simulation.
