Go for it. We've passed by houses on out walking route with flowers outside that are likely fake, but it's just about impossible to tell for sure.

The only issue is that they get dusty very quickly, and they can also fade in the sun. There is a gas station I sometimes pass that has a big row of fake tulips in front. They became haggard and dusty and started falling every which way in quick order.

I'm not against fake plants. Especially mixed in with real.

Mtn, these are UV resistant and aren't suppose to fade. They'll be in full shade on the porch. I can gently hose them down because of dust which isn't as bad in summer since it blows away from the house.

Ida, there's a house in town with an immaculate yard and hedges. I learned after ten years they were fake. I'd never heard of such a thing before and I thought how lazy and tacky. Not now. :)

If these flowers turn out nice, please make sure I don't get carried away. lol

I had a shed in the back yard, cute black metal trough planter under the window. The flowers I put in it, of course, died. For the winter I put in fake poinsettias, and it looked so nice I switched to fake daffs for spring and then geraniums, it looked nice all year and I was much happier. Just change them out when the seasons change!

I have a corner of the patio with fake potted flowers mixed with a larger real potted plant. The faux flowers are inexpensive so I just pluck a bunch or two out every year and add new. Down here the UV still fade but it looks a bit more realistic to have some faded and some brighter. I used to have faux ivy trellis’s along part of the back fencing until the neighbor finally replaced his fence.

No cleaning little dead flowers out of the pool for me.

I have an iron window planter in full sun that nothing will live in (or anything that looks good), so am going with faux flowers this year. I’m going to mix things that could realistically live in that harsh spot if I watered every 23 minutes — for instance some faux lavender stems with hanging ivy, and a few spiky pieces of greenery mixed in. Another idea is geraniums, if I can find good-looking faux ones, or succulent combos.

Some of my faux inspiration:

Of all places, Wal-Mart has the most realistic faux lavender sprigs I’ve found:

Now I want to stick fake lavender down in my real lavender to extend the season!

The only thing I am wondering about is that in the article she mentioned the flowers she used were UV silk and in the description of your Amazon order it said plastic. Not sure if it matters, but I would think the silk might look more natural than the uv plastic?

I‘m not sure if I would do this...but I certainly wouldn’t judge anyone who did. Seems like a good hack, as long as it isn’t obvious.

Jterri, that looks fab. Also, i really really dislike those screen structures over pools, but yours is one of the only ones I've seen that I do like! I think because it is black. Your little vignette is wonderful.

Thanks Mtn, I don’t like screening over the pool as I prefer wide open sky when swimming. However, even though I have a larger pie shaped lot in this neighborhood of small lots, I still need privacy with added trees and foliage. It would be a nightmare keeping all that close to the pool greenery out of the pool.

Weird! I signed in with my email and it asked me to create a password , huh? I clicked the maybe later and somehow posted under an HU.

I have some faux succulents that look amazingly real in a location that I used to use real succulents. They always died quickly so I made the switch. You really can't tell and all of the other nearby plants are real.

My upstairs window box is like an inch and a half deep -- it looks deeper but there is a bottom about an inch and a half from the top. I use silks and change them out each season. Since I have no dirt to stick them in I have a 2 x 4 and I staple the stems to that and them put one board in each of the window box halves. These are the summer geraniums -- I have fall mums and have just recently gotten spring pansies. I'm not sure anyone knows that they aren't real.

Aha! Just how many of us are frauds? lol!

Tina, I'm not doing this just to be lazy. There are a couple of good reasons for it and I'm happy some of us can get away with faux plants. Our front door is the "focal point" so it needs to look beyootiful from the road.

Again, mine will be in full shade, and since they'll be right next to the front door I'll be able to water them. ;)

I think I'll prefer plastic because, 1) They won't be noticeable from the road, and cars passing by or the mailman will be the only ones who see them & even the mailman won't notice unless he has a pkg to put on the porch, 2) The colors on plastic are a deeper color and dark green is recommended, and 3) The plastic flower heads should survive our OK wind! :)

I'm loving the pictures and great ideas. Now that the secret is out of the bag for those areas that need something pretty, I wonder just how many others do the same?

Jinx, last year I had a couple of pots of geraniums sitting on top of the dirt flowerbed and one died in a day because it dried out and the soil was so hot it nearly burnt my finger.

We grow Lavender in the ground but a few years ago I put some in a large clay pot (they get very hot) and set it on top of the dirt in my flowerbed. It got full sun from morning til night. I thought it would die over winter but it came back! The reason it's staying alive staying alive, (sorry) is because the roots grew down through the drain hole in the pot and attatched itself to the soil. Great perennial!

I say go for it. "Fake" flowers have come a long way in recent years.

Oakley, I can only have real geraniums in one spot on my back patio. Otherwise, like you said — they fry. And I love them! Gotta be a tough plant to thrive in the south/southwest. :)

This is very inspirational! My porch is nice but completely empty and I've always thought some planters would look nice, but I'm positive I'd forget to water and would end up killing anything live.

Tina, I do, too! At this house, I usually get the coral ones, though, for the all-over color scheme back there. :D

Sorry Tina. What you wrote was an indirect insult and you know it.

OK, ok now. Play nice.

I'll play nice but this has been going on for years now. Tina, I don't want you to leave, but the remark you made goes with your history of replying to topics I do. The comment you made today heavily implied I don't like to work in my garden. You knew we weren't talking about using fake flowers all over the yard, so that remark was uncalled for. And you've also seen the massive flowers I plant too. I only wanted one for the porch.

I guess this topic reached the finish line. That's okay.

AND!!!!!! The DEER won't eat them!!!

I searched youtube to see if there were ideas on planting fake flowers outdoors and to my surprise, it's been a thing for some time now.

I adore Allium and it lasts about thru dinnertime..

LOL. Do you grow your own garlic? I might plant some bulbs in the fall but it needs to be somewhere out of the wind. I think I made myself hungry!

LOL

No, I don't. I don't grow things that don't offer a taste advantage over store-bought. IMHO that includes garlic. I do have Allium in my flower bed, but they are so brief!

I have a planter on my porch inherited from my grandmother. She used to keep red geraniums in it, but there is no place under a roof where I could put the planter where it would get enough sun for any plant to grow in it. It's an antique so I don't want to put it outside. So the solution was fake geraniums. They look fine and can be washed if they get dusty, unlike real plants, which do get dusty and are a whole lot tougher to clean . . .

I bought fake forsythia from Michaels and it looks pretty darn real. I bought some fake lavender for our east facing front deck which gets little sunshine. We have lavender down in the garden which gets more sun and I just wanted to join the two spaces somehow. It looked good.

Congratulations! Fake flowers are such a great solution to your problem. I'm sure they'll look great from the road, and your topiaries will be the envy of the neighborhood! Plus, you don't have to worry about them dying or needing to be watered. Buy artificial flowers online, as there's a wide selection of excellent quality flowers at competitive prices on the Internet. This excellent solution will make your front yard always look flourishing. All the best with your project!