Oh You Pretty Things! Part 1

A couple of pretty things have come across my radar lately, and I thought I’d share.

The first I saw on a visit to Shiny Things, the famed store for shoes, when I explored the sim a little more and discovered Fallingwater Flowers, a range of remarkable sculptie blooms.

These are fantasy flowers, just as the sculptie trees behind seemed to me to be more fantasy trees. Although, in a way, the trees reminded me of water colour paintings with the beautiful loose swirls of vegetation rather than attempting to depict realistic leaves. I love the realism (and beauty) of the work of garden designers who do successfully make such attempts, but I like to think that Second Life has room for a very different aesthetic too.

In other words, the designer Fallingwater Cellardoor has created here both trees and flowers that could give you some stunning effects with both trees and flowers in building a fantastic garden. And some of the trees are very low priim – there were some that were only seven prims. Not a huge outlay for what could be a breathtaking effect.

One thing is huge though – and that’s the size of the flowers themselves. One of the things I like most in Second Life is that I’ve been able to acquire the inches that I lack in real life but here, at Fallingwater Flowers, as you can see, I was dwarfed by single blooms. So for the sweet romantic gesture, hopeful lovers may want to look elsewhere – but if you really want to be fantastically extravagant – well, here looks like a very good place to start!

One further thing to add – the flowers come with a colour change system, so that if your orchid is touched with exactly the wrong shade of pink, you can shift it to the perfect blue at your leisure – and without needing to dig in iron filings around the roots!