There is a very cool condo in Adams Morgan that I've shown for the second time.  It is staged within an inch of its life and looks pretty good.

It's loft style place.  The living-dining-kitchen is all open.  The wood floors shine when the sun shines in through the huge windowns.  You can just imagine how the fireplace is in the winter.  The baths are even state of the art.

Then there's this industrial strength staircase leading up to a loft with big windows leading to a huge terrace.

And on that terrace, there were some chairs, a little fire pit, and a buch of mums - about eight of them. 

Well, they used to be mums. 

Now they are just dried out shells of former mums.  Here are two of them.

So, bottom line.  If you are going to use live plants in staging, you have to monitor their health and well being. 

Dead plants are a complete turn-off.