Artificial plants are a great way to make an outside area look more inviting, as well as, the fact it's low maintenance...I am all about low maintenance !! I was having guests for Easter and wanted to dress up my patio so I added artificial geraniums in my pots...It was cold and even snowed a little...However, it looks like a warm summer day out in my back yard...I'm actually going to add artificial vines to a wrought iron fence and a flowering vine to a trellis in the garden....Just think of all the possibilities....
These are artificial bulb type flowers mixed in with little roses to dress up window boxes.....The roses I've had in those flower boxes for three years and they still look good !! I just added the yellow flowers to freshen up the roses...
When I was adding the flowers to the front of the house, my neighbor was passing by and asked what kind of flowers they are because they were so pretty... My response, "fake."....
Adding the vines that flow over the rim of the pots help to make the artificial plants look more real. The pots are light weight. I guess those are considered artificial cast iron urns.... The ferns in the back are artificial too.
The flowers in the ground are real...I'm not that lazy....I still add real plants to my flowerbeds...
I actually love gardening with real flowers....I have been gardening for many years....I usually plant whatever looks great at the store and when I plant the flowers they usually grow to sizes I wasn't planning on or they die because I had no clues where to plant them...in the shade or in full sun. I came up with the artificial plants because "what you see is what you get" and the beauty of it all is the fact there is no watering involved !! You can go out of town and not worry that the neighbor kid that you are paying $50 bucks to water your plants doesn't forget....They cost about the same as living plants. It has taken the frustration out of gardening for me.
I get most of the plants from Michael's Crafts.
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