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How do you feel about Artficial Flowers and Trees in your home?

Question:
How do you feel about Artficial Flowers and Trees in your home?

Choices:
Never! in a million years.
They are great for ALLERGY SUFFERERS.
I love them, they look so real.
Real Flowers or No Flowers at all.
Other (Please Explain)

 

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Man they are better than the real thing. Just think, no bugs, no pollen, no watering, and they don't die. Gotta love that.

Not so much on the artificial flowers trying to fake out real - but I do like dried arrangements with a few flowers stuck in for color. Or mostly leaves or ferns with flowers.

i don't mind artificial if they are the best of the best. but i hate it when they aren't kept clean and are covered with dust!
those pictured look lovely.

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I like this new Message Board. This is fun. I suffer from alergies, so I use faux flowers and plants, instead of real ones. The trick is to buy the ones that look very real, then put them in real looking planters. I keep mine very clean, because of my alergies.

I do not think high quality silk or faux florals and plants are tacky. The low end are.

They are not only for allergic people but are a good alternative if one doesn't want to be bothered with plants or real cut flowers.

I totally agree with Joyluck. Expensive silk flowers look wonderful if you keep them clean. There are fake orchids out there that look better than the real ones.

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I agree with Joyluck. Faux is fine if they're good quality and not overdone. I have a mix of real plants and flowers, dried flowers, grass and branches (curly willow) and one small silk bouquet.

yes, my friend has a fake orchid that really had me fooled. i kept admiring it and she didn't tell me it wasn't real until i was getting ready to leave.

I like sticks, twigs, pine cones, bamboo,and dried flowers.I fill a big vase full of lemons or apples for the kitchen.

For me, it is either artificial plants or dead plants.

With that the only choices, I go for artificial. Yea, as mentioned, I go for the best quality I can find. Usually "silk" leaves and flowers, and not simply cheap molded plastic.

I hope that no one believes that dead plants, with brown leaves on the floor around them, are good decorations.

OldManWalt that is too funny. I have killed more plants than I want to admit.

I think they can look great if you spend the money to get good ones. Some really good ones I have seen (that cost **) looked very realistic. I think they can collect a lot of dust so I would not use any in a place I could not get to them easily to clean them (ie., tops of wall-mounted kitchen cabinets, very tall armoires, etc. Nothing is uglier than dusty artificial ivy! I love the fact there is no watering, no bugs, no cats (mine) digging in dirt and/or eating of the plants. They just hav to be squeaky clean or I go nuts.

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I'm with everyone - the good quality silk plants and flowers are beautiful in the right quantity and right arrangements.

For me though, it will probably always be real or nothing. I HATE to dust - particularly little fiddly bits. IMHO even very high quality silk plants just don't look good if they're dusty. If a plants can't survive a nice shower from time to time, they won't make it in my house.

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Originally posted by Too Much Stuph:
...even very high quality silk plants just don't look good if they're dusty. If a plants can't survive a nice shower from time to time, they won't make it in my house.

All the silk florals or plants I've had have survived a quick shower. Easy way to clean them. I use a swiffer to dust them in between.

While very few real plants have ever lived that long while in my care, their leaves get dusty too. I faintly remember having to wipe those real leaves off, every once in a while.

Depends on the display.. i've seen some nice ones at several hundred dollars for artificial flowers!
strands of plastic ivy off the kitchen cabs is pretty cheezy though.
I do like dried eucalyptus, love the smell they bring.