To get plastic plants for my garden?

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I am where plants come to die. WIBU to put plastic ones in the planters around my patio? On one hand it feels like cheating and I feel sad for the planet/insects…but on the other hand I will 💯 kill more real plants if I buy them…and dead plants don’t look very nice.

Plant them in the ground instead of planters. Then they have a chance of finding their own water etc.

Plastic plants outside is ridiculous.

What have you tried planting? The right plants in the right conditions will survive.

It would look worse than dead plants

Yabu. If you get the right plants you don't need to do a thing to them.
Check your soil, how much sun / shade you get before you buy.

Learn to care for them - it’s really not hard if you don’t buy risky plants.

There is nothing good about fake plants outside. I sometimes see them on naff instagram accounts and they are vile. Especially these awful wall art/plants that the sheeple IG accounts seem to love.

lavender, thyme, pelargoniums.. chuck some water at them once a week, it’s really not that hard.

No plants are better than awful, shitty, plastic plants……..

Pots are hard work. Can you lift some of the patio stones round the edge and find soil? Plants in beds are SO much less likely to die especially if you choose low maintenance plants which are right for your garden (eg shade loving vs sun loving, happy in wet vs dry soil)

If you can’t keep plants alive, no judgement from me. But it makes much more sense environmentally — and will also look much, much less shit — to use something other than plastic plants as an adornment for your space.

I had brown fingers.

Now I don't. It's not that hard. Just buy the right plants to begin with.

Whereabouts are your pots? In sun or shade?
Some plants are easier than others but they all grow best if the conditions are right for them.
Our neighbour has plastic plants that have faded. They look terrible!

Ok that’s pretty unanimous 🤣 no plastic plants for me. Planters are the only option, it’s a small back yard which is just a patio, no soil at all on the ground. Pretty shady a lot of the day, but does get sun for a few hours.

Get the biggest pots you can. Put in ferns because they like shade. And some ivy if you have space for it to group a wall. Water once a week with a lot of water. Feed the plants with long lasting pellets once or twice a year.

YABVU

they look bad.

If you can't keep a plant outside OUTDOORS then I don't even know what to say

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Please don't. There are so many plants that thrive on little water or care.And it's so easy to look up which is the right plant for the right place ie sun or shade.And if it is sunny and dry plants like lavender or those with silvery,aromatic leaves attract bees and other pollinators.I wish plastic grass and plants were not becoming so prevalent. It's depressing.

If you want colour, busy lizzies and begonia semperflorens are colourful, cheerful and indestructible provided you water them. You can edge your pots with trailing lobelia, or use variegated ivies which are perennial. In the autumn dig up the plants, except the ivy, put them on the compost heap and plant winter flowering pansies or cyclamen, you could add a few spring bulbs too.
You've probably been planting sun loving plants like geraniums which are always disappointing in a shady garden.

A pot with ferns in it or hostas will thrive in shade ( check no slugs for hostas ) but they are very attractive and thrive in the shade. Ivy yes - A garden does not have to be multicoloured - Some euphorbia are very pretty especially in the spring with bright green bracts. A very shady green garden is lovely.

But yes I agree with other posters - don't plant plants who don't like the conditions - won't work. Otherwise you could get some pots which you can put on a wheeled base and put some annuals in where you can move them into the sunny bit periodically

The other thing is you could put some hanging pots on the walls in the sunnier parts with some annuals which will thrive there .

I do wish you luck.