Artificial flowers in gardens

polomint

Of course they fade, but annuals die off. If they serve a purpose at the time that can only be good

A fair point

MissAdventure

I've got an outdoor rug on my back doorstep too!
I really am beyond the pale.

You are a maverick indeed!

I just don’t know how I feel? I have a mix of “real” and “artificial” plants indoors, the fake ones are not plastic, they are silk and cloth.

Outdoor rugs and artificial plants outside? Well why not and some of the small artificial trees are amazingly realistic and no work, a mix would be great, we get very little wild life or birds, tiny garden, 4 wee dogs! (3 not mine!)

Don’t really like them but then I’m a coffee snob too! 😂

I am not a fan of artificial

Saying that one of the AS’s has the children’s play section of his garden turfed with artificial grass which means it can be used all year round and doesn’t get water logged. He is adamant that it will be dug up and seeded once they are older.

I do like an outdoor rug in outdoor seating areas, I think that look good and feel nice under bare feet.

Not for me, outdoors or in, I prefer real plants/trees.
I probably won’t plant my window troughs or tubs this year as I’ve had a troublesome hip break, they may well stay empty, so be it.

We have a wall basket in our front garden that used to have real plants in it, but the sun is way too hot and kept killing them. We now put realistic artificial plants in it instead. Cheating? Yes. I feel a bit shamefaced, especially if people comment on how lovely they look! The rest of the garden is very real!

Hideous.

Whitewavemark2

The Japanese say that the gaps are more important than the plants.

Well, they’re welcome to their opinion. I would beg to differ!

I cant tell the difference[I am not a gardener!].

I once "resuced" some plants, as I thought a lady's young child was "drowning" them.

Was later told they were fake flowers!

Do the slugs leave artificial flowers alone? If so, I could be tempted…

I liked the idea of outdoor rugs (sorry) but was put off them when a friend got one. She moved it later on in the summer and it was heaving with earwigs! 😱😱😱

What I really really hate is the artificial flowers left on the compost heap in the churchyard.
If God had managed to find a way of composting the non biodegradable he’d have done a wonderful thing!

I’m not a fan of fake flowers or grass . I like watching things grow and attracting bees and butterflies and I love the smell of cut grass .

No,no,no. Never!

Not a fan of fake flowers in the garden
But -
my neighbour's four cats have made holes in the trellis and I bought some very cheap squares of fake foliage to cover up the gaps.

Next door has an artificial flower door wreath. Two artificial laurel bushes each side of the front door, plus four hanging baskets filled with plastic flowers. They are colourful, definitely artificial and very bad taste. Heaps of plastic,.

That reminds me , I must get my artificial hanging basket !

Perhaps your neighbours could have artificial cats, Esmay!

Not for me, I prefer to watch plants change with the seasons.

I paid quite a lot for an artificial bay tree to go in a very shady corner by my front door where everything I’ve planted has died, and I must say I’m delighted with it.
It looks very realistic at the moment and as it won’t see the sun I hope it stays that way!

There is a house not far away with two bay standards, each side of the front door.

They have now faded to a rather fetching turquoise😄😄😄.

Oh nannynoodles I didn’t mean to be rude, I posted before I saw your post.

I must say when the bays were first put in place they looked very good. But too much sun has faded them.

That’s the thing with plastic, it fades and then looks tacky. And hard to dispose of too.

Terrible for the environment, tacky and cheap. Plastic grass should be banned too.

They might look alright initially but strong light and weather does fade them making them look tacky.
There’s a house near me with a couple of hanging ‘box hedge’ plastic balls……..faded, grubby and dreadful!