Where to Buy the Best Fake Plants — Plus, Our Fave Places to Shop

For that real look, but with an extremely low maintenance vibe, try Afloral's Real Touch Hydrangea. The 18-inch flower has a nearly seven inch bloom and the wire stem can easily be bent or cut. Add one of these to an existing floral arrangement or purchase a few for a bouquet centerpiece on your dining room table or bedroom. Afloral is a female-owned business that prides itself on helping you create a year-round botanical home, providing sustainability through reusable products, faux plants that are forever in bloom, and a largely plastic-free shipping process.

Nearly Natural is a multi-generational plant-loving brand whose family tree has roots dating back 75 years to Grandpa Henry Friedmen, a horticulturist himself. Today, Robbie Singer leads a team of designers who travel the globe in search of “nearly natural” artificial trees, plants, and flowers that come as close in color and texture as possible to the real thing. Just look at this 6-foot-tall Bird of Paradise plant. It’s tropical, colored with rich green leaves and bright yellow-and-purple blooms, and sits in its black planter as if it was freshly plucked from a nursery.

The Sill believes that plants make people happier. And so Eliza Blank, its founder and CEO, built an entire brand based on them — informed by her memories of growing up around houseplants and the benefits taking care of plants can have on our mood and health. While The Sill offers an array of living plants, including a monthly subscription box, it also has a hefty selection of faux and preserved plants that don’t need sunlight or the same level of maintenance as real plants. A braided money tree is said to bring good luck, and this 4.75-foot-tall faux one from The Sill bestows all the abundance with none of the hassle.

For plant-lovers who lack time or the right weather conditions, this faux cacti is even more low-maintenance than the real thing. West Elm has been expanding beyond furniture, rugs, and linens with great outdoor and gardening pieces, including faux plants. This one is offered in two heights, and both look great styled solo or together. Best of all, they won’t hurt if you accidentally brush up against them!

It should come as no surprise that Amazon has a huge selection of faux plants and even single branches, many of which look much more expensive than their cheap price tags. If you’re looking to bring a little piece of the Mediterranean into your home, look no further than this faux olive tree from Nearly Natural, towering at more than 6 feet tall with silvery leaves that transport you to the Italian countryside. This one comes in a grower pot that you can drop into your favorite planter for a more realistic and custom look.

There aren’t many scenarios I can think of where a eucalyptus plant isn’t the right look. And the way this one cascades over its ceramic pot makes it the perfect styling object. It joins CB2’s selection of live, faux, dried, and preserved plants, trees, and grassy stems.

Target’s Threshold collab with Studio McGee has tons of affordable faux greenery, like this lush fern in a decorative cement pot. Happy customers love the hefty pot and wayward stems that look much more realistic than they’d expected.

Terrain is a nature-minded, impact-driven brand that celebrates fresh plants, flowers, fruiting trees, and even seeds, soil, and planting kits so you can grow your own gardens. But don't worry — they also offer faux flowers and houseplants if you don’t have a green thumb. Meant for indoor use only, the faux fiddle leaf fig tree is a modest 2.5 feet tall if you’re looking to cheer up a drab corner of your home.

This 5.5-foot-tall tropical monstera plant looks real enough to let you live that plant life. But it’s ArtiPlanto’s commitment with each purchase to One Tree Planted — a nonprofit dedicated to global reforestation — that really seals the deal. Based in New York City and Montreal, ArtiPlanto’s team uses ethically sourced materials to design realistic and artistic artificial plants suitable for indoors and the outdoors, accompanied by a collection of planters, rugs, and accessories intended for the modern minimalist home. (Oh, and the monstera plant is also available in 6.5- and 8-foot-tall heights.)

With a showroom in the Dallas Design District, LDF Silk has elevated the art of permanent florals and plants with designer-worthy foliage and blooms that never die. Established in 1983 under the name L’Amour Des Fleurs, meaning Love of Flowers, LDF Silk still has a team of artisans handcrafting its life-like arrangements, trees, and sculpture that can stay indoors worry-free. But if you want your low-maintenance faux plants to extend outside, too, the showroom also carries a selection of UV-protected options, like this polyblend agave plant complete with a grower’s pot. That means it will “survive” weather conditions and not fade in the sunlight. So you can have virtually any landscape you want regardless of the climate you live in.