What do you think of Artificial plants ?

[Gunznroses]

After 1 yr of carefully tendering 6 medium size indoor plants, 2 rather exotic! Two of them have now died. I'm fed up and don't want to start all over again, i've always thought artificial flowers and the like tacky, however recently i went for a conference and in their lobby area had the most gorgeous life size plants, until i discovered they were artificial .

I'm now thinking this might look quite nice at home, not to talk of no watering, pruning, watering etc bliss! So should I ?

I used to work in a place many years ago with artificial plants, they look nice, for a short while but they accumulate copius amounts dust! Then they don't look so good. I remember painstakingly wiping down each individual leaf with a damp cloth every few days.

They do collect dust after a while.

I take the few I have and periodically give them a gentle rinse with the hand held shower attachment. Shake off excess water (into bathtub), and let air dry. Put them back into the containers, and they look lovely/fresh again.

Im thinking of large potted ones, so i won't be taking them out to rinse iyswim, will have to consider the dust.

I have a BIG arrangement in our chimnety breast (we avoid real flowers for health reasons)

Every so often I wash the flowers by hand on a sunny day and leave them to dry outside. (I've done this for the last 3 years at least with no problems).

I don't see why you couldn't rinse a potted one.

Can anyone recommend good ones, at prices that won't break the bank?

Are you near a Costco? They have some lovely indoor and outdoor planters that look really nice. I have my eyes on a couple of the outside ones for the summer.

Good idea, will def have a look there, thanks!