About Une Plante Artificielle

The short version

Une Plante Artificielle is a blog, and the line under the logo, Faux greenery, judged honestly, is the whole editorial brief. New articles go up when they are ready, and everything we have published stays available in the blog archive.

Most of what is written about artificial plants is written by people who have never had to live with the results. Une Plante Artificielle is the opposite arrangement, and that is the whole idea behind it.

What we publish

• Buying Guides. How to judge an artificial plant before you pay, and what the price is actually buying you.
• Materials. Silk, polyester, latex and plastic, how each one ages, and which claims on the label mean nothing.
• Room by Room. Placing greenery in the corners where nothing living will grow, from windowless offices to steam filled bathrooms.
• Care and Cleaning. Dust, fading and bent stems. The small routines that decide whether a faux plant lasts two years or ten.
• Styling. Pots, scale and arrangement, and why the right plant in the wrong container still looks wrong.
• Real vs Faux. Honest comparisons, including the cases where a living plant is cheaper, easier and simply better.
• Games. Video games and gaming, from what we play to how games connect to the rest of life.

Articles are filed under one topic each, so an archive page reads as a list rather than a pile. Most of the traffic here lands on buying guides, materials and room by room.

Where we stop

There are questions we routinely decline. Anything that depends on facts only you can see, and anything where being wrong would cost you real money on our say so.

Who is responsible for this

You can see who wrote what, and you can see everything else they wrote. That is deliberate, because it makes a bad article expensive for the person who wrote it.

Camille Rousseau, Founder and buyer. Camille started buying artificial plants for a flat with one north facing window and kept a spreadsheet of what survived the years and what turned grey. That spreadsheet became this site. She still does most of the buying, and she pays for it herself.

Owen Bradshaw, Materials and durability. Owen spent years around plastics and coatings before he wrote a word about decor, which is why he is difficult about the phrase UV rated. He runs the fade tests here and reports the ones that go badly as well as the ones that do not.

Priya Raman, Styling and rooms. Priya has decorated rented flats for over a decade, most of them with bad light and rules against drilling. She thinks about scale and placement first and shopping second, which is usually the cheaper order to think in.

The method

Nothing here is written from a search results page. If we have not handled it ourselves or spoken to somebody who has, we leave the topic alone until we have.

We are not neutral about quality, but we are honest about incentives. Where money is involved, the page says so.

How claims get checked and how money is disclosed is written down separately, on the editorial policy page.

Telling us we are wrong

Tell us which line is wrong and why, at info@uneplanteartificielle.com or through the contact page. Small errors are corrected the same week. Anything that changes the advice gets a dated note at the bottom of the article.