Materials
Silk, Polyester or Latex: What Fades First
Material names on artificial plant listings are close to meaningless. Silk almost never means silk.
I have bought somewhere near two hundred artificial plants over eleven years, most of them for a flat whose only window faces north. A fair number were a waste of money.
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Materials
Material names on artificial plant listings are close to meaningless. Silk almost never means silk.
Room by Room
Every flat I have rented in the last decade had one room that defeated living plants.
Real vs Faux
This site is about artificial plants and I have a spreadsheet of two hundred of them.
Care and Cleaning
The most common way people ruin an artificial plant is not sunlight or moving house.
Styling
Most artificial plants that look wrong in a room are not bad plants.
Room by Room
A reader sent me photographs of his garage last spring and asked whether anything could be done with it.
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Archive
Three people who buy artificial plants with their own money, keep them for years, and write down what happened. Every article carries a byline, and every byline links to everything else that person has written here.