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Shannonbridge Roundabout Topiary in Limerick

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Limerick Roundabout Topiary - An installation by Agrumi for Limerick Self Storage. Picture shows artificial boxwood topiary in the shape of boxes with a doorway

Limerick in Ireland is an historic town the beauty of which has recently been enhanced with Agrumi topiary. Agrumi’s handmade designs – in living or artificial plants – are perfect for business advertising in public spaces. 

When Limerick Self Storage chose to advertise on a roundabout they needed an eye-catching design. The project had to publicize the company’s services to motorists quickly, but effectively as they negotiated their way around the heart of the city close to the River Shannon and the station. 

A mockup of the design

A mockup of the design using actual boxes

Agrumi worked closely with Limerick Self Storage to develop a design that focuses on the main tools of their trade – packing cases and other forms of storage. The resulting layout is made in artificial boxwood to be robust and long lasting. 

The cubes vary is size from 35cm to 90 cm and the doorway to the installation is 250cm tall. Metal posts have been dug 100cm into the ground to ensure that the structures stay in place and withstand the strong winds that blow along the river. 

Limerick Roundabout Topiary - An installation by Agrumi for Limerick Self Storage. Picture shows artificial boxwood topiary in the shape of boxes with a doorway

The design imaginatively and playfully showcases all that Limerick Self Storage is about alongside discrete, low natural planting that deliberately scales up the topiary elements. 

The Managing Director’s feedback says it all…

“Thank you to everyone involved in this project, it has been a great success and we are already starting to receive very positive feedback.”

Shannonbridge Roundabout topiary in Limerick. Shows an archway with some topiary boxes

Limerick Roundabout Topiary - An installation by Agrumi for Limerick Self Storage. Picture shows artificial boxwood topiary in the shape of boxes with a doorway

Limerick Roundabout Topiary - An installation by Agrumi for Limerick Self Storage. Picture shows artificial boxwood topiary in the shape of boxes with a doorway

Get in touch with us if you would like to work together to help advertise your business

Introducing Agrumi’s Charity of the Year – The Enham Trust

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We first heard about the Enham Trust through a topiary commission (see photo). As we got to understand more about them and the wonderful work they do we realised there was no way we could charge them for the project – we simply had to make it a donation!

Bespoke Topiary Art Letters donated to Enham Trust

This case study is a great opportunity to bring a fantastic charity to the attention of our other clients and potential customers so they can think about donating too.

Over almost 100 years the Trust has facilitated opportunities for hundreds of thousands of disabled, elderly and vulnerable people to live the lives they choose, as independently as possible.

At present the Trust is supporting over 6500 individuals – children and adults – across three core services:

  • Care – including care at home
  • Housing – including sheltered accommodation and care homes
  • Employment – including jobs and skills training

The range of assistance offered is phenomenal from personal care (including help with personal hygiene such as bathing and showering, medications and food and drink preparation) to social support (such as shopping trips, domestic care, social activities, welfare checks and financial management and administration).

Based in Hampshire but with a much wider reach the Trust’s full care model enables them to provide a ‘wrap around service’ that is personalised and tailored to individuals.

Without the Trust’s know-how and support the lives of many people would be much the poorer physically and emotionally.

This Christmas and beyond if you’re looking for a deserving charity to support you should look no further that the Enham Trust.

Follow this link to the Trust’s website: https://www.enhamtrust.org.uk/

Who’s looking at you? Well Mickey obviously!!

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Disney Mickey Mouse Topiary Sculpture

Following our recent commissions for Disney to celebrate Mickey’s 90th more work has followed including this witty installation for Disney via the PR company 2Heads.

Everyone here in the creative team at Agrumi had a blast putting this piece together:

  • From our hardworking, courteous office staff who provide Agrumi’s backbone and dealt with the new commission through the initial phone call to the legal, administrative and financiald etails;
  • To the inspired and inspiring design and fabrication department who made the figure;
  • To our wonderful delivery guys that carefully packaged and expertly delivered Mickey to our expectant customer.

    • The feedback about the pieces we made for Disney and 2 Heads have been overwhelmingly positive:

    “Many thanks for what you produced, they met the brief perfectly and added that little extra to a successful event."
    Punch Wilson, Production Manager, 2Heads

Is there a mouse in the house?

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Topiary Mickey Heads in Disneyland CaliforniaAs previous case studies have shown, Agrumi’s client base is extending and now incorporates the US.

After the success of other commissions there, we got a call from the Disneyland Resort in California. The idea was to make various Mickey and Minnie Mouse items in artificial box topiary for display in shops and at other merchandising outlets.

Topiary Mickey Heads in Disneyland California

We were only too pleased to help and worked closely with the Disney team to design and make a variety of items that would perfectly encapsulate the spirit of the Mouse and the company’s fun ethos.

The photos show our success and the Disney people were thrilled with the results. Project supervisor Cameryn Chan said:

“Thank you so much for everything your team did for us and with such short notice and lead time. We really appreciate it and it was a pleasure working with you”.

If you run a shop or amusement park then you might also want some topiary sculptures. Contact us today for a free quote!

Summer in the English countryside – with an elephant?

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Giant artificial boxwood topiary elephantProject Ink is an event management and design consultancy with a rota of high profile clients looking to enhance and promote their profile, services and image.

Working on a project with Kuoni, the luxury travel company famous for their safari holidays, Project Ink commissioned us to fabricate a 2.5m high, 2.4m long and 1.4m wide elephant in artificial grass. This big beast was to be the focal point for a Kuoni sponsored event at BBC ‘Countryfile Live’ that took place at beautiful Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire in August.

Artificial Boxwood Elephant with Luigi

Pictured here with Luigi, Agrumi’s Head topiarist, our elephant is safari ready!

Over 4 gloriously sunny days at the event our elephant wowed the public and presenters alike and gave Kuoni fabulous publicity for their expertly curated holiday packages. The reaction on social media was glowing – as these posts show.

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Not something you see everyday #elephant #elephantonatrailer

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#toperie #elephant #countryfilelive #blenheimpalace @bbccountryfilelive

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Spot the small boy hiding behind our giant topiary elephant #countryfilelive #bleneimpalace #kuoni #elephants #southafrica

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If you need a topiary elephant then contact us today! We’d be delighted to help you!

Agrumi Puts the ‘Eco’ Into Quantcast’s ‘Marketing Ecosystem’

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Quantcast logo in moss topiary with 3 cosplay modelsQuantcast is a company on a mission to help brands grow in the AI era. They are in the business of creating algorithms or ‘systems of intelligence’ for the online ‘marketing ecosystem’ so their clients can make smarter, faster and more relevant contact with their customers.

Quantcast recently launched ‘Q’ – the world’s largest AI-driven audience behaviour platform for the open Internet. Agrumi was commissioned to help with the UK PR and built this massive 150cm tall ‘Q’.

Moss Topiary Quantcast Logo

The result is pretty impressive and eye-catching and shows how Agrumi topiary can be used to enhance and reinforce PR messages.

Thanking us for our work Quantcast’s Marketing Associate Hannah McDougall said:

“The Q was a massive success!”

Quantcast Moss Topiary logo used as part of a photobooth

Want to see your company logo in topiary form? Get in touch for a free estimate!

On tour with Agrumi and Dippy the Natural History Museum dinosaur

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Allosaurus Artificial Boxwood Topiary

“We are so pleased with the work Agrumi did!”
– Steve Hewlett, Manager, ‘Retail Birmingham’

Dippy, the Natural History Museum’s iconic Diplodocus cast has been touring the UK on a natural history adventure. He’s been visiting some of this country’s incredible natural history collections and will be at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until 9 September 2018.

A few months ago Retail Birmingham – which promotes and supports businesses in the city centre – got in touch. Dippy’s forthcoming visit provided an ideal opportunity for some dinosaur-related PR to promote their fantastic local shops and restaurants.

Triceratops Topiary

We were commissioned to create five 2m x 1m topiary animals to be displayed in bespoke planters sourced and planted by the local parks team.  The installations would be exhibited in key central locations and provide focal points of interest for the museum, Dippy’s tour and Birmingham’s commercial sector.

Using the Natural History Museum’s own ‘top 5’ list of their visitors’ favourite dinosaurs we made a Stegosaurus, Tyrannosauras, Diplodicus, Coelophysis and Triceratops. Retail Birmingham told us that the pieces needed to be weather and vandal-proof as well as fire retardant. Artificial boxwood is an ideal choice for this situation and the product we use is both lifelike and robust.

Triceratops topiary from the front

“Great to see the dinosaurs arrives today – they look really good!”

“We’ve started to put the dinosaurs out and already had a great reaction!”

The photos speak for themselves and the public reaction was so positive that a ‘Retail Birmingham’ immediately ordered an extra T-Rex and Stegosaurus. Shortly afterwards three more animals were commissioned – an Allosaurus, Velociraptor and Brachiosaurus.

Topiary Dinosaurs in Public

Delighted with the commission Retail Birmingham just launched a film about the project in time for the summer holidays. Watch it here:

 

The triceratops dinosaur topiary made from artificial boxwood in our topiary workshop

 

The stegosaurus having the finishing touches added to its tail in our topiary workshop

The stegosaurus having the finishing touches added to its tail in our topiary workshop

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All ten dinosaurs snapped! #DippyOnTour #@shoppinginbham

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Hedging my bets to discover dinosaurs before they become extinct. #dippyontour @shoppinginbham

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Thought this was so cool!! #nofilter #dippyontour #dippyontourbirmingham #trex

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If you’re looking for topiary dinosaurs or need something to spruce up your high street then contact us today!

Lush Hares Logo Says Animal Testing’s a No Go

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Lush Moss Topiary HaresLush makes cosmetics by hand from natural ingredients. None of its products are tested on animals and the company is rightly proud of this claim – which it advertises through its fighting hares logo.

Focusing on the hares for a media event, Lush came to us to ensure that their logo was larger than life and eye-catching enough to take centre stage with journalists.

Lush Hares in Moss Topiary

We created the animals’ outlines expertly as usual using our tried and tested frame fabrication methods and the resulting skeletons were covered in moss for ease of transport, handling, care and longevity.

Lush now has an ecologically friendly version of its logo that it can use again and again at events to promote the company and its ethos about the welfare on animals.

Lush indeed!

If you’re interested in some topiary hares or would like to see your company logo recreated in topiary then get in touch with us!

Frieze Frame

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Bespoke planters and topiary lemon trees

The 2017 London Frieze Art Fair was a huge success and Agrumi helped one exhibitor gain a coveted Focus Stand Prize.

Various Small Fires (VSF) is a small Los Angeles-based gallery that acts for a number of artists of international standing, At Frieze this year the gallery chose to showcase a work by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison (collectively known as ‘The Harrisons’).

The Harrisons live in Santa Cruz, California and pioneered the Ecological Art Movement back in the 70s. The movement promotes climate change solutions through art and their Survival Piece V Part II: Lemon Orchard Fragment is an early work dating from 1972.

This installation features lemon trees growing under photosynthetic lights and was originally intended to have dual meaning. Firstly, it acted as a critique of human kind’s influence on the planet’s ecosystems and secondly, it was a practical experiment for the indoor cultivation of fruit in a post-agricultural future.

Bespoke planters and topiary lemon trees

VSF chose to partner with Agrumi to re-create Survival Piece V Part II at Frieze in October. We sourced and planted Meyer lemon trees (a particularly hardy citrus breed) in specially constructed tubs that were then co-located under photosynthetic lights.

The look of the whole installation exactly replicated the appearance of Survival Piece V Part II as it had originally appeared over 40 years ago – although on a smaller scale. The installation was completed with surviving drawings and other ephemera from the 1972 original and visitors were again able to walk among the trees as they had done before.

The ‘portable orchard’ caught the eye of the Frieze judges (Richard Parry Director of Glasgow International, Christopher Lew Curator of the Whitney Museum and Hanne Mugaas Director of the Kunsthalle, Stavanger) and won the Focus Stand Prize.

This coup for VSF and Agrumi was doubly rewarding. Not only did it recognize the hard work that went in to bringing the installation to life again, it also allowed us to promote a serious ecological message. Following their sojourn at frieze the Meyer lemon trees have been replanted in an orchard.

If you need something green on your trade stand then get in touch!

A Little Bird Told Us…

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Topiary Owls from The Night Gardener children's book

… that ‘The Night Gardener’ is a brilliant book. We were preening our feathers after being asked by Quarto Publishing to help them market this fantastic new addition to children’s literature.

The book tells the story of a topiary expert who transforms a miserable and grey street into a place of joy and colour by completing amazing topiaries by night while the street’s residents sleep.

The book’s cover features a beautiful owl, which Agrumi’s own topiary expert deftly copied in artificial Boxwood. This material was chosen over living plants because the figures would feature in the window displays of various popular London bookshops from the hardback launch at the beginning of 2017 to the paperback launch extending into 2018.

A topiary owl in a bookshop window promoting The Night Gardener

The figures would need little or no attention and would continue looking as good as the day they were made however long they were displayed and in however many different venues.

Commenting on the reception of the topiary owls at Quarto Head Office, Christopher Ransom said:

“They sent everyone in our office mad with excitement, and the likeness is amazing! Couldn’t be happier!”

The Night Gardener topiary owl

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