SIMPLE TULIPS

Tulip Glass Arrangement (£8, Asda) WHAT ARE THEY? Polyester petals with a uniform dye and rubber leaves. NICKY SAYS: You can’t really go wrong with fake tulips. They are such a simple flower, so they are easy to copy. And the rubbery leaves are very convincing.

So this is fine, and its simplicity has its own charm.

It’s easy to knock fake flowers, but they have a noble history. Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV’s mistress, used to fill the garden at Versailles with fake roses.

When her guests came out from dinner, they were enchanted by a ‘new’ garden. 7/10