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[ValuSkr]

@fthunt   Parts of the fake plants come off during wind storms and litter the neighbors' gardens and yards.  Maybe your neighbors didn't care. 

[Lali1]

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@ValuSkr wrote:

Fake plants inside are one thing, but outside they're beyond the pale.  For years,, I had neighbors that kept an artificial ficus tree on their deck year-round, winter and summer.  During their tenure, and for years afterward, I kept coming across silk ficus leaves and tree bits in my gardens; they had blown off this abomination.  It's litter and shouldn't be encouraged by Q (or anyone else).

Fake plants inside aren't my thing either but I get it - some people enjoy the look of plants but can't care for them.  .  

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Outside fake plants should be outlawed 😂Just kidding but it just seems so wrong. I'm a plant lover and have no fake plants. I do kinda want a fake Fiddle Leaf because my real one won't grow. 

[proudlyfromNJ]

I didn't realize how upset people get with neighbors who use fake flowers. I wonder if my neighbors feel the same although they can't really see in my yard. I'll think about not using them anymore. As I posted, can't use real ones because of the deer. I guess not many people here live with a deer population. 

[cookie16]

Living in NW NJ, there are very few flowering plants that I have found that the deer won't eat.  They have decimated my yard this winter even eating holly, rhododendron, and pine needles off our pine trees.  In the Spring/Summer, I spray many different deer-off products to no avail.  I planted astilbe which is touted as deer resistant, and No, it isn't.  We have fenced in our landscape plants and they broke the fence.  If they want it, they will reach it.  If artificial flowers help give some color to your yard, I say go for it.  

[Desertdi]

When it's 115° with 5% humidity......FAKE is the only thing that survives

[NickNack]

My neighbor across the street has three fake plants hanging on her porch year round.  This winter one of them tilted over, and it's still hanging there.  I don't  like to look at them.

[Mominohio]

Fake has it's place. 

The TSV today looks like junk to me. The old Bethlehem lights hanging baskets were really well done, and more of a fabric kind of leaf and flower, lasted for years even outdoors. 

The fake shrubbery that Q was selling last year, did a great job for us. My mom is 85 and can't maintain all her beds anymore, especially trees and bushes that need trimmed etc. 

We bought these and had them planted. They have held up well, and as close as two feet, look real. She lives well off the road, and much of her landscaped areas are not accessed by people coming and going, and no one has figured out they are fake. It has made life so much easier physically and financially on us. We mix some colorful flowering annuals in the beds and it looks beautiful. Even the landscapers that came to plant the "bushes" had no idea they were fake till they picked them up to move them into place for planting. 

[Spurt]

I've seen fake plants well done and then I've seen some that are laughable ...

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[LdyBugz]

I would much rather see someone attempting to beautify their yard with plastic or silk plants than doing nothing at all.  Some people simply do not have the means, ability or desire to do landscaping that meets a neighbor's tastes and standards.

This post makes me think of an older, small home on the main drag in my town, just past the high school.  The house sits at an intersection with a traffic light.  While waiting for the light to turn green, I noticed there were two tulip plants, one red and one yellow.  Each was adjacent to the other at the start of the little walkway that leads to the front porch.  It was late fall when I noticed these tulips since they were clearly out of season and artificial.

Those two tulip plants were there all year long for several years.  On a couple of occassions, I saw a very small, elderly woman tending to her little garden while holding on to her cane.  It melted my heart to see her taking such pride and enjoying her special treasures.  I could never belittle someone like this dear woman.  As the saying goes, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

[PA Mom-mom]

@Mominohio  I have two BL hanging baskets in the front of my house, and they are still looking great! I have added a few stems over the years, but the originals have not faded, and the lights still work. I can't put any hanging baskets in those locations because of the sun and heat.