Tips on how to clean artificial hedges

Artificial hedges often provide your space with a relaxing, vibrant look. With time passing by, they may accumulate a layer of dust and suffer from spiders. Although plastic hedge products don’t require much maintenance, like any other surface indoors or outdoors, they need some regular cleaning to look their best.

Indoor Cleaning

Step 1 Prepare the following cleaning tools.

Feather duster

Two soft microfiber or cotton cloths

Mild detergent or gentle dish soap 

Spray bottle

Step 2 Dust the artificial hedges

Use a feather duster to remove dust and spider webs from the surface of artificial hedges.

Step 3 Further clean the artificial hedges

As for some tough dirt, grime, oil that you cannot easily wiping away by the feather duster, you need to choose non-abrasive materials to do a further cleaning.

• Add a small amount of a mild detergent to lukewarm clean water
• Fill the spray bottle with the water
• Spray one soft cloth and gently scrub the foliage and panels
• Rinse the residue away with clean, cool water
• Dry it with another clean cloth

Outdoor Cleaning

When it comes to how to clean outdoor artificial hedges for privacy and landscaping, it gets much easier.

• Choose a warm day
• Carefully adjust the hose nozzle to spray. If the pressure is too low, it may take more time and energy to get the job done. If the pressure is too high, artificial hedges may get damaged and it will also cause a waste of both water and money.
• Spray foliage and panels from all directions thoroughly to remove dust and spiders.
• Gently shake off the excess water.
• Allow them to dry naturally.

Artificial hedges do have many benefits, and a little requirement of cleaning is one of them. For more tips on how to clean and maintain your artificial hedges, feel free to contact us.

Three Methods of Reusing used plastic artificial plants and hedges

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The artificial hedges whose foliage is made of PE material are becoming more and more popular with the expansion of our production capacity and sold all over the world. Look at the giant project above. Many wonder and concern about how can these plastic artificial plants or foliage be disposed to not harm the natural ecological environment system. Here we simply introduce these three methods for its recycled uses for your reference~

1.Burning method: Waste polyethylene combustion into heat energy

It can be used in the incinerator, and can be burned with other combustible materials, and then heat energy is generated. The products of combustion are mainly H2O and CO2, so the environmental impact during incineration is much smaller than that of PVC.

2.Recycling method: after the waste polyethylene is cleaned, broken and granulated, it is directly processed.

3.Chemical recovery method: the compounds are decomposed into small molecules by thermal decomposition or catalytic cracking. They are mainly gas producing technology, oil producing technology and wax producing technology.

As the environment factories has been taken into account, you do not have to worry our artificial hedges and plants are harmful to our earth. Because the reused plastic(PE) is environmental by plastic degradation and PE degradation.. By degradation with other methods, PE can be recycled.

If you have projects for whether residential or commercial, indoors or outdoors, do not worry the used artificial hedges and plants will pollute the environments. You are all welcome to import our factory-direct artificial foliage plants for eco-friendly landscape design.

What’s UV-Protection & How to Test it in Artificial Plants

For outdoor application, artificial hedges plants should be UV-protected for years to keep best lifelike green appearance. How to make it happen? Let’s get to know what are UV rays & how to make plastic plants UV-engineered. 

According to the wavelength, UV rays can be divided into three categories - UVA, UVB&UVC.

UVA 320-400nm It can penetrate grass to degrade polymer.

UVB 280-320nm The 95% was absorbed by ozone sphere and the rest becomes main cause for polymer degradation and skin sunburning.

UVC 100-280nm All is absorbed by ozone sphere.

These UVA and UVB rays will degrade these plastic polymer as time goes. The main degrading causes are listed as follows:

1. Heat

2. Thermal oxidation

3. Chemical damage

4. Radiation

5. Physical

6. Biological

The representative performances of degradation are listed below:

A. Fade

B. Mechanical Decline

C. Physical Appearance Change

1. Glossiness decreased

2. Transparency drops

3. Viscosity change

D. Strong irritating odor

E. Cracks

F. Black spots

On top of everything, you have to add UV protector or absorb-er in plastic artificial plants manufacturing process for long-lasting outdoor use. We usually add UVA additive and Tinuvin (Hals) in artificial plants to absorb UV rays or turn UV radiation into heat to shield plastic plants from degradation for outdoor application. The additive quantity needed should be set according to local conditions like weather and temperature which are fatal factors for speeding plastic plants degradation.

So here is the question. How to test lifetime of different UV-protected plastic artificial plants?

The artificial plants projects have become a main trend not only for residential home indoor & outdoor landscape but also for commercial interior or exterior decor. Therefore, it is of great significance for project managers, garden retailers & suppliers or landscape contractors to be aware of why we use UV-protection and how to find out the outdoor lifetime which is in close relation to its UV-protection in artificial plants. The more premium the UV-protection is, the longer the artificial plants will keep its perfect lifelike natural looking.

Of course, we can put it under the sun for testing its ageing timeline. However, it is apparently time-consuming. Those pros in the industry usually use hernia lights for quick lifetime test. The UV shielding rating criteria for artificial plants including color change, glossy change & cracked degree of the test before & after. Specific standard refers to SAE J2527 & SAE J2020. 

10 Artificial Landscaping Ideas

>>Artificial plants wall
Here is a 3D type with high quality design, you could install artificial plants according to your own requirement. The basic design is using one type artificial leave hedge as backing, then you could choose different types artificial foliage bunches to add three-dimensional sense. It could be widely used in Shopping malls or business buildings~

>>Artificial Boxwood wall
As is the picture showing below, artificial green wall could be used in living room, all our green wall is made by environmental-friendly material. You can decorate with artificial green wall which gonna get you a beautiful wall with fashionable design~

>>Artificial hedges screen
It is a good idea that using different leaves hedges with colorful range for logo creation, here is a coffee logo, artificial hedges could be applied in any business promotion. If you need, tell us your logo, we will design for you~

>>Boxwood in planter
Pls see the new product below-boxwood in planter. Planter is customized according to our customers. The covering hedge could be boxwood or any hedges model you like~ The size could also be designed according to your requirement~ It could be used in garden park, parking port an so on....

>>Artificial Plants Frame Wall
Hope this picture could attract your attention. Art 3D artificial foliage or lush artificial living wall mounted on the wooden frame can perfectly harmonize modern decorating style. It brings elegant natural accent, vitality as well as a burst of floral charm to interior design.

>>Artificial Ball
It would be nice if you choose to decorate your residential home or commercial office space with artificial balls. As you can see, it could be used as a pot plant or hanging decor with different kinds of models varieties. If you have any projects, welcome to contact us~

>>Artificial Expandable Lattice & Trellis hedges
This type of fence is retractable with pretty foliage.This is a good gardening product which can be chosen according to your own needs. It can safeguard privacy, help get instant beauty, and it won't cover all~

>>Artificial hedges in theme park application
You could choose different kinds of hedges to decorate, it would be better to contrast the theme, it looks natural and fantastic~

>>Artificial Letter leaves fence
As you see the “I DO”, imagine that if there is a weeding hold in outdoor, it would be so romantic when this appears~

>>Artificial hedges in decorating supermarket shelves
The natural green color with artificial hedges in Supermarket will attract more people especial in fruits zone. It looks like a fruit tree and leaves getting people a real experience in fruits garden~

Green Hedges Transform Terrible Graffiti Into A Living Wall Art

When people talk about graffiti, some consider it street art while some consider it vandalism. Good works, of course, should be respected. But graffiti here, I mean, refer to those terrible meaningless scratches on public walls, some kind of property destruction.

Look at the following pictures.

Graffiti lovers always feel excited to look for a clean empty wall to start their drawing. They use terrible even bloody colors, unpleasant words to their own satisfaction. Then they just go away, leaving the wall wearing her ugly scars alone.

As we know, public influence on psycho social development of children is profound. Thus, it is important to prevent child’s exposure to unhealthy contents like violence, sex and etc. To combat graffiti, city officials regard artificial hedges as the best solution. Artificial hedges or green walls are perfect to cover unsightly things considering their life-like greenery and fade-resistant beauty. Unaffected by nature, they need no water; their leaves won’t fall off; they won’t overgrow. That is to say, they need no care and require no maintenance. Thus they can achieve the balance of aesthetics and practicality.

After installing artificial green walls, city officials find the result quite impressive. They do cover the ugly graffiti and prevent graffiti lovers from drawing on the wall. Meanwhile, they add appeal to the street look and elevating the street image.

Seeing the green wall, I believe, graffiti lovers can feel calm and less stressed and do not have the heart to cause destruction.

How to Hide an Ugly Wall With Artificial Hedges

Here pls find the left picture which is before decoration, it looks ugly, and we always want to decorate it with economic way so that it can bring beauty with less money. Also I would like to share you the way that hiding an ugly wall to cover unsightly views with artificial hedges.

You will find the wall has been hided with artificial hedges on the right picture. You could find the amazing difference between two pictures that hiding or decorating an ugly area with artificial hedges could bring your outdoor privacy a brand new look. If this is a balcony, you can simply decorate it to fulfill its design. If you want to go out from house and don’t want to go far away for a fresh air, this place is a good choice for playing with your families or friends.

Here sharing a simple installation method for your reference. First step is putting the iron grid on the wall, then using the zip ties to fix the artificial hedge plastic panels with iron grid together. If you need the accessories, we could also prepare for you.

Artificial hedges is made by new fresh PE material, which makes leaves look more natural. The foliage is made by machine and the foliage are fixed to the base-plate by man hand. And now we have many different kinds of foliage in shapes, types and colors.

Actually artificial hedge has been widely used for hiding the wall, below picture is another finished achievement of our client from Mexico for your reference. For more specific needs, you are welcome to leave us a messages or call us at (86)25-84681768.