Are plastic flowers in the front yard a new..

[OK!]

I think you should add some fake palm trees and a few pink plastic flamingos to your yard. I mean, if the neighborhood is moving into the plastic look, you want to be ahead of the game, right?

On that note, how about some faux deer "grazing" on the artificial landscaping? I think that might add the touch of realism you're looking for.

 

[Hixski]

On our back patio I have a palm tree very similar to this one. I have had it for a couple of years now and it still looks as good as when I bought it. It has a bit of a plastic feel but unless you touch it you can't tell. I put it in our shed in the winter though. Since I live in St. Louis I need to still have my palm tree somehow.

 

[poohandwendy]

I have always known elderly women to do this, because they wanted the color but couldn't physically garden. I guess that is always who I assumed did that?

Doesn't really bother me one way or the other. I would prefer that over the really weird lawn statuary...like the dude a few miles away that has a ginormous concrete stegosaurus in his front yard.

Or the leopards, lions, zebras, dolphins and other unlikely-to-be-found-in-western-PA concrete animals I have seen in peoples yards. So, plastic flowers? I barely would notice them.

 

[Aidensmom]

I live in a working class neighborhood, i.e. what most of the DIS (or at least their personas) would consider poor and too scary to drive through at night from posts I have read over time. I have never seen plastic flowers in anyone's yard, though some have silk wreaths (including myself) on their doors. Our neighborhood is either landscaping I envy or none at all. But all of the landscaping is real.

 

[IwasatWDWforamonth]

we have the mickey and minnie fake topiary

there was a guy in our yard feeling minnie I was like "CAN I HELP YOU SIR"

 

[IwasatWDWforamonth]

On our back patio I have a palm tree very similar to this one. I have had it for a couple of years now and it still looks as good as when I bought it. It has a bit of a plastic feel but unless you touch it you can't tell. I put it in our shed in the winter though. Since I live in St. Louis I need to still have my palm tree somehow.

my mom had one of those out by the pool until it fell apart

 

[Chattyaholic]

Last year I decided to go with silk flowers for my outdoor flower containers. I decided I was tired of the daily watering with real flowers, and when we go on vacation/camping having to ask someone to do it so thought silk ones would be good. In theory they were. But the red geraniums faded terribly and looked pale pink. The green ivy stuff turned aqua from being in the sun. Looked really bad. All white flowers might be okay, but I decided to go back to the "real deal" this year.

I didn't leave mine out in the winter though. I plucked them all up in late fall.

 

[Master Gracy]

what lack of taste
my advice is to move to a new area

 

[DawnCt1]

One of my neighbors down from me had plastic flowers. I never noticed them because I don't usually go down to that end of the cul de sac. Apparently one of my other neighbor's noticed them however and ask the plastic flower person if she would remove them. They did.

 

[Ladybison]

Obviously it has nothing to do with living in a half million plus neighborhood. It has to do with your taste. And apparently some people prefer plastic. My aunt did this to her yard two years ago. I think it looks tacky but hey- it's not my yard.