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Short answers to the questions readers send Une Plante Artificielle most often, plus where to write if yours is not covered here.
Not in a room where nothing will grow. In a bright room with someone willing to water, a living plant is usually cheaper and looks better. We say which situation you are in rather than pretending faux wins everywhere.
Indoors and away from direct sun, eight to ten years is reasonable for a well made piece. In a sunny window without UV protection, colour can shift noticeably inside two summers.
Three things, in this order. A shiny finish that catches light like plastic, leaves that are all one flat green, and a visible moulded base sitting in a pot that is too small.
Only if they are genuinely UV stabilised, and the label alone is not proof. Ordinary indoor pieces put on a balcony usually pale within one season.
Dry dusting first, always. Water and soap should be a last resort on sealed leaves only, because on some finishes it lifts the colour coat and leaves a dull patch.
No. We buy what we write about, which is slower and keeps us free to say a piece was not worth the money.
Une plante artificielle simply means an artificial plant. The name stuck from a note on the first spreadsheet and we kept it. The writing is in English.
Write to info@uneplanteartificielle.com and ask. Questions that arrive more than once usually end up as an article, and the ones that arrive often end up on this page.
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