Question

What's people's views on artificial garden flowers? Are they actually any good?  

Answer 1

I love real plants and have a watering system but have silk flowers here cos when on holiday these wouldn’t get watered from the watering system and look pretty all the year.  

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Answer 2

They all fade, regardless of sales promises.  

Answer 3

No way would have artificial plants in my garden.  

Answer 4

I have them in doors as I suffer with hayfever x

Answer 5

Why? Last year everyone went mad over fake grass now plants. I just can’t comprehend  just don’t understand one bit, it’s a garden right?  

Answer 6

As the songs goes . ain't nothing like the real thing baby  

Answer 7

You pay for what you get!  

Answer 8

I'm too lazy to do topiary , I do have one of those in the garden and I have a fake tree too amongst 100s of plants bulbs n flowers each to their own i have places in my garden where things won't grow so ideal for me

Answer 9

Now I’ve always loved gardening from seed but I’m not above putting silk flowers amongst them, I love visitors having to feel to make sure what’s real or notI bring in for winter and ‘replant’ for instant colour in appropriate month

Answer 10

It's a personal thing, but for me all that plastic and man made fibers are bad for the environment.  

Answer 11

If you buy good quality there really nice.  

Answer 12

A wreath I’ve made for my gate.  

Answer 13

I think there has been enough damage done to the environment without adding to it. A garden as defined in the English dictionary is a piece of land adjoining a house or building allocated for growing grass, plants or vegetables. Where are the butterflies & bugs, birds & in particular bees and eventually US going to go when all the gardens become fake?  

Answer 14

I got some just in two pots I do use real rest of garden

Answer 15

It wouldn't really be a garden if the plants weren't real and living. Just call it another room, albeit outside, and I'm sure they would be fine. But for a garden, no way.  

Answer 16

I've got really bad eyesight & I can usually tell from quite a distance, also they fade because of the sunlight & don't look to good pretty quickly. Real multiply by themselves, change the look of the garden throughout the seasons, produce scent, attract pollinators & other wildlife, reduce CO2 , lock in carbon, can be given as gifts, brought inside to add colour & scent, gardening is also good for mental health & gentle physical exercise (if you don't let small jobs turn into big jobs) & you can also grow your own organic food too.  

Answer 17

Absolutely not. My personal opinion, but artificial flowers make me think of graves. Gardens aren't meant to be "pretty" all year round.  

Answer 18

I love real garden plants but my garden floods with the slightest rain and if that doesnt kill them somehow i do so have some artificial ones.  

Answer 19

Personally I'd have low maintenance plants rather than plastic outdoors as no matter how much you pay they fade with time and unfortunately will never look like the real thing, especially when out of season. When my children were small had a large garden and planted shrubs that needed hardly any maintenance and had a few pots and hanging baskets for added colour in the summer. My children had their own area where they planted sunflowers and runner beans.  

Answer 20

Real one are so much - realer !  

Answer 21

I bought some beautiful pots of fake flowers for my patio at my previous address. It was a covered space, plus fairly enclosed so they did well, although there was some fading in the sun. None of them were plastic. When I moved I sold them all as I have a real garden now  

Answer 22

Not very good for wildlife. Get the real thing

Answer 23

Never  

Answer 24

It's a no from me.  

Answer 25

No no nothing like the real thing .  

Answer 26

Horses for courses.?  

Answer 27

Sorry but it’s a big No from me

Answer 28

Personally no. I live gardening and I wouldn't have anything to do . They also fade in the sun and I don't think look nice after a while x

Answer 29

And cue the “Plastic in the garden is evil” brigade

Answer 30

I go it put in last year best thing i done easy to manage and looks good I say YES if you like it go for it.  

Answer 31

No good for the local wildlife.  

Answer 32

No no no

Answer 33

I have used on floral arrangements indoors mixed with real flowers I prefer real but it’s your garden your choice and if you like them u go for it xx

Answer 34

Yes for certain areas. Hanging baskets and trees for pots. Lasted me about 5yrs. I take them in in winter. But still have plants and trees. Its just an instant look.  

Answer 35

I like them even though I love gardening. I can never look after hanging baskets so I have a couple of faux baskets, they do tend to fade though but are great for instant impact  

Answer 36

I have a couple in pots (because everything I grow dies) I've had 2 permanently pretty flower pots for 2years now  

Answer 37

The faded ones look awful x