How to Make Fake Plants Look Real
But you have to be creative and savvy when using fake plants. Here's how to make them work in your space.
Buy fake plants that look real. These days there are shops devoted to selling artificial plants and they do look alive. There is some real ivy that looks artificial anyway, so why not buy the fake thing? Find fake plants that are potted in a material that looks like dirt. Forget those straw fillers that are usually scream, "fake!"
Put several fake plants together in one space; this makes them appear more real because no one would believe you would go out and buy a bunch of fake plants and put them together. Frankly, one isolated fake plant is more suspect than several fakers sitting together.
Place your fake plant in an appropriate place that regular plants grow--such as in a window sill. When you see a flowering plant in a dark bathroom or basement, the intelligent person will think, "That must be fake." Even someone not so swift is liable to think that.
Buy fake plants that are appropriate to your climate. A banana tree on a deck in New Hampshire is a dead giveaway that your plant is, well......dead.
This is a really good one: Mix in fake plants with live plants in the same area. The fake ones can be used behind or next to the real ones to fill out the space, and many of them will blend in very well with the real ones.
Mess up the fake plants a little. Many of them come very full and even and perfectly arranged. Real plants don't look like that--except in the plant store. Real plants grow toward the sun. So take your fake plant and bend some of the stems (most of the stems are somewhat flexible) toward the sun. That will really make your fake plant take on some reality.
Take some dead leaves from your real plants and place a couple near your fake ones-either in or around the pot. That can be a good fooler.
And when you do all this and people admire your plants, don't tell them they're fake! You wouldn't do that about your fake eyelashes, would you?
Published by Ilene Springer - Featured Contributor in Travel
EXPAT: I am an independent writer and EFL teacher who moved from the US to Malta in October, 2008. I specialize in writing about travel; health and wellness; pet health; teaching EFL; and lifestyle subjects... View profile
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5 Comments
Post a CommentGreat article, Ilene! :)
These are good suggestions, Ilene. I like fake plants to look real.
Sophie
This was a very fun, and wonderful read, great info here, thanks and wonderful ideas neat!!!!!!!!!
Very helpful article. I have the perennial brown thumb. So I recently decided I'll try getting a bunch of fake plants (big ones) and just going with it. No need in wasting my time or subjecting innocent plants to a couple years or days of suffering. :) So thanks again for the really good tips. I've not read some of these anywhere else. Great job!
I like the dead leaf idea! Good points here.