We decided to buy artificial trees for the urns on either side of our outside entry after several years of struggling to keep real plants and topiaries alive during the dry ,hot Oklahoma summers. These trees look amazing and so real, even touching them does not give them away! What I love most is that they will still look like they do now in September without all the constant care of past years! I would recommend them to anyone who like myself, only want "artificial" if you can't tell it's artificial!