For many years now, I have tried to keep plants alive in these pots on my front porch, with no success. Summers here get quite hot and our house faces west, so we get A LOT of sun. No plants have been able to make it through the hot summers, also I am not the best gardener, so I decided to put some faux trees in the pots!

I ended up going with these 4 inch cedar silk trees and was able to get 25% off of them. If you sign up as a new customer, you can too! I was overall, really impressed with the quality and how real they looked! They came packaged nicely and I received them within a week.

Another reason I was ready to be done with real plants, is my planters have small drainage holes in the bottom of them. I had tried EVERYTHING to plug up these holes (I put rocks in the bottom of them to help the water drain), but water still slowly seeped out. And I didn’t want to have a plastic liner on the bottom. On a painted porch, water that seeps out creates this. Gross-ness.

I LOVE my painted porch and have no regrets of painting it. None at all! To see how I painted it you can go to this post.

This is what it looked like before.

After

Of course, up close you can tell these trees are faux, but a few feet back, if you didn’t know they were fake…. I don’t think anyone would be the wiser!

A little bit of paint helped cover those up those gross brown spots.

I used real dirt to help the plants look more real, that would be my biggest piece of advice!

I could probably fluff these out even a little more than what I did.

These will look great during Christmas with lights strung around them! And I think they will still look good during the other seasons as well.

Would you ever use a faux plant outside?!

I am so pumped I don’t have to worry about keeping these things alive!