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Artificial Plants

Green large artificial fern frond, sixty centimetres from base to tip, arranged in a vase

Artificial Plants

Green large artificial fern frond, sixty centimetres from base to tip, arranged in a vase

Artificial Plants

Green large artificial fern frond, sixty centimetres from base to tip, arranged in a vase
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Working with faux plants

Four things worth knowing before you buy a plant.

How do you make an artificial plant look real?

It is almost always the pot, not the plant. What gives a faux plant away is the base — a bare plastic liner, or a disc of foam left on show. Sit it in a real ceramic or terracotta pot, wedge it with foam or gravel so it cannot spin, then cover the top with moss, bark or coarse grit right up to the rim. Once the base reads as soil, very few people look closer.

Does an artificial plant need shaping when it arrives?

Yes — every plant ships compressed, and out of the box it will look flat and one-sided. Work from the bottom up: pull each branch away from the main stem, bend the wire so no two sit at the same angle, then twist individual leaves so some face up and some tilt away. Ten minutes on a fern is the difference between obviously fake and having to touch it.

Do artificial plants fade in sunlight?

Yes, all of them, and nothing sold as UV-proof is genuinely permanent indoors. Cheap surface dyes go badly within one season in a south-facing window. Away from direct sun you should expect years rather than months — and once colour has gone, there is no bringing it back, so this one is worth getting right when you choose where it stands.

How do you clean them?

Broad leaves show dust in a way flowers never do. Wipe each leaf along its length with a barely damp microfibre cloth, supporting it from underneath so the stem does not bend. For ferns and fine foliage, use a hairdryer on cold from about thirty centimetres instead; moss and preserved landscape pieces stay dry — dust those only.

The range

Pick by where it goes

Plants are chosen by the space they have to fill, not by the plant. Start with the spot and the category picks itself.

  • Large Plants & TreesFloor-standing pieces for a corner that has stayed empty because nothing fits. These change a room rather than decorate it, so the trunk and the pot matter as much as the leaves.
  • Small & Desk PlantsAlready potted, low, and stable. For shelves, windowsills and desks where a vase would take up room you do not have.
  • Foliage & Leaf StemsGreen with no flowers in it. Add a few to a bouquet that has come out too floral, or use them on their own where colour would be too much.
  • Moss & Landscape PiecesThe base layer. Covers the mechanics at the top of a pot, fills a bowl, and sits under a small display so it reads as planted rather than placed.
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