Houseplants That Look So Good... They Look Fake

[@AbbiZika]

You're so cute! You crack me up, "as if I would waste my precious surface space in my home!" I FELT THAT.

[@aksonybag]

My husband was shocked when he saw me watering my perfect looking aglaonema. He thought it was a fake plant for more than 2 months lol

[@BalbysHome]

😃 I can image and relate

[@xo_kylem6735]

The nerve of some people to assume a plant is fake when literally your home is filled with real plants.... like, what?

[@brandonpollard8928]

You know what's crazy, I have fake plants in the hallway corners in my townhouse so you know it gets dark so I have too and people ask about them more then all 160 plus real plants sigh* normal people(not plant people) suck

[@aksonybag]

I put some fake plants in the room with bad lighting and air flow. And because i have sooo many real plants, they thought my fake plants are real too lol

[@fambi1271]

The only fake "Plants" i have are flower arrangments bc im horrible w any flower thats not an orchid but then im like yes the blue flower is real but the green leaves are fake

[@ealston0826]

@@fambi1271 lmao!

[@joannajoe9308]

Him: This plant is impossible to kill. Me: challenge accepted 😂

[@linhh620]

My Stromanthe Triostar is so beautiful it looks like someone hand painted the leaves. I look at her everyday and like "wow Nature did THAT"

[@Mspoor70]

Same!

[@cherylanne6549]

And mine looks like any day it will just fall over dead. I don't know why because I think I'm doing everything right!

[@5701mari]

Cheryl Anne usually spider mites. It’s always spider mites with the trio star 🙄

[@cherylanne6549]

@@5701mari omg I hope not! I have so many plants together in that room! But I'll look out for them and thanks for the heads up!

[@alohawhy]

God is an amazing Artist

[@majaf.8076]

Last year I moved to another city and carried a laundry basket full of my plants. Loads of people in the train asked me if they were real and asked me for care tips! It's a compliment. :)

[@dontevenask4113]

I wish my husband would look at me the way Nick looks at his sansevieria. :)

[@RamaNasikkar]

I blame you for my plant addiction

[@hjg1792]

Honestly I can say the same

[@brandonpollard8928]

I swear him, Summer Rayne & Jeff from Tropical plant party started mine, im in deep lol

[@trewti]

Ditto...and I love the botanical names. Planterina, Summer Rayne Oakes and The Crazy Plant Guy contributed to my "obsession" with plants. I don't bother with the unattainable ones though! If it's not in a big box store, and I really want it, I'll buy a cutting from Etsy, but I refuse to pay more than $30 for a plant. I can wait until the price goes down.💚🌱Either way, the plant struggle is real💚🌱

[@SuperJojotaylor]

Me too, I need help

[@wandashaw3551]

I get the same reactions from people, especially when they see my orchids in bloom. Then of course, they want to TOUCH them....ahhh NO TOUCHING. LOL. Also, I am LOVIN the pot and saucer your Agleonema is in. So Beautiful.

[@TheTimeForChange44]

I love the gallery of 'fake-looking' plants, with especially, your presentation, Nick! Darling!

[@fambi1271]

Everyone who enters my home almost immediately touches my calathea and goes "Oh thats real!" My favorite reaction

[@taraldstein7165]

Alocasias! Especially polly and cuprea. I love them, but they do look like they are made of plastic.

[@tiffanyi5645]

I'm obsessed with Aglaos and Dieffenbachias! They're the plants that are always in the background of TV, movies, cartoons and magazines!!! lol

[@plantlifewithconnie]

Definitely Calathea Zebrina. Everyone always has the same reaction when they see mine. "Wait, that's real?"

[@michaela_fk]

Some of the dieffenbachias like the ‘Snow’ get me soooo good. Every time I just question it

[@v5d9k1]

I've had people squish the leaves of my Baby Sunrose because they thought it was plastic. 😔

[@bigpolyenergy]

I cringe when people touch my plants! 😬🤨😒😂

[@theresafleetwood4962]

@@lynnsteiner1580 me too I literally moan at the person on the video saying don't touch the leaves. Does my head in. 👍🕊🇬🇧

[@brandonpollard8928]

I've had a Pitcher plant tops ripped off, Adansonii stepped on, philodendron leaf straight stepped on until it ripped off, i treat my house like a museum now and everyone better watch out!

[@brandonpollard8928]

@@lynnsteiner1580 huh I've never heard that: on tours I think Its cool to touch plants you LITERALLY learn so much from on how a healthy plant should and shouldn't feel like further more most plant people doing tours have plant people HANDS 'we know how to touch'. Your debunked lol

[@brandonpollard8928]

@@lynnsteiner1580 liked and exposed plant weirdo

[@fiemy6888]

Wait why? Is it bad to touch your plants? I often look under the leaves and thus touching them, and holding the foliage while watering to better water only the soil

[@W0lfm0ther]

Nick what is your skin care routine??! You’ve just been looking A1 recently! Love the facial hair too

[@LeTigre83]

LOVE this! My top fake looking plant is Alocasia Polly. Love love ficus elastica 💜 just waiting for the right moment. The right, not overpriced moment 😂

[@christieo2739]

Wow, I’ve never seen that type of Sansaveria before. It’s gorgeous!!!

[@marthanewsome6375]

Nick, for your staghorn, place a piece of natural fiber rope in the back center of the plant where it touches the wood and then place a jar at the bottom and put the other end of the rope in the jar and water them from there using the wicking method. If you tie a knot in the rope before you place it behind the plant it will hold better. That way you will see the jar dry up of water and all you have to do is put some more water in the jar. I used wire to attach an old fashion big pickle jar to mine and the amount of watering I do has dropped to once every two weeks. Also make sure the rope touches the bottom of the jar to get every drop of water for the plant.

[@d3r4g45]

im so in love with all the ficuses. looks, character, upkeep all love it

[@BalbysHome]

yes, agree! but sometimes they are finicky, too 😔

[@PlainJanePlants]

Love the sassy intro! As if I would waste surface space LMAO

[@mg9353]

I have a calathea makoyana! I'm new to indoor gardening and grabbed it completely based on looks from the store, with no idea what it was or how to care for it. Plopped it on my table and gave it tap water. Somehow- it's never given me issues! It still looks perfect (fake almost!) and just keeps pushing out beautiful new leaves. Imagine my terror when I finally ID'd it through videos like this, giving me firm warnings that calatheas are fickle and easy to kill LMAO I'm scared it's going to smell my new fear and suddenly die out of nowhere now! Maybe that's the trick- like a celebrity in the wild, you have to approach them calmly and treat them just like anyone else lmao. Picturing mine now with sunglasses and a baseball cap on trying to trick me into thinking it's Nothing Special

[@nicoledaniel5505]

Get you a man that looks at you like Nick looks at his snake plant. 😂

[@hodayadostri7411]

I was just about to comment that it's real goals

[@derp195]

8:21

[@VickyHafler]

Nick, I loved it. Thanks for taking the time. No one would question if my plants are alive 😜 no perfect looking plants here.

[@florbelaribeiro3992]

In my opinion, most of those statement type of plants, we kind of love at first sight, but as time goes by, we realize that they are not our favorites. The "basic" ones, just with simple green leafs, are the ones I always keep preferring. Just like with clothes and even people. If you only could keep 5 to 10 plants, which ones would you choose?? 😊😊

[@jiminsmorningcoffee3952]

True. Everytime I see a philodendron Spiritus Sancti, I always silently pray to have one but I'm scared I'd get over the feeling once I actually get it. Because it happened with some other plants I won't mention.😅 My actual favorites, I propagate like crazy because I want one in every corner of my house if the light conditions permit. I want to see them all the time. Now, I have almost 200 species in my house but if I have to choose just a few, I'd choose: 1. philodendron gloriosum 2. alocasia Black Velvet 3. syngonium Bold Allusion 4. maranta leuconeura 5. aglaonema rotundum 6. homalomena wallisii 7. dieffenbachia Memoria Corsii 8. var. wax ivy 9. var. string of hearts 10. var. ficus triangularis They're all very basic and relatively easy to care for and they're all really pretty specially when they're thick and happy.

[@patricialisowski1080]

Ahhhh! You are the light of the plant world!! Thanks for all the hints😀😀

[@jiminsmorningcoffee3952]

Yes, Aglaonemas and prayer plants have unique intricate patterns on their leaves, they're unbelievable. But besides my Ags and my prayer plants, the plants I have that always get that "Is that real?" reactions are my Homalomena wallisii, Dieffenbachia Tropic Mariane and variegated wax ivy. These three have been loving their spot in my home that they all look lush and almost unreal. Love your videos. I always seem to find a new plant to fall in love with every time I watch one of your videos. I stayed away from tilandsias because I always felt that I had to DIY holders first before I get them. Now I realize I shouldn't have put off buying them for so long. Looking forward to more videos like this. 😊

[@WeaMazeika]

When I first saw my philodendron red emerald from afar in the store, I thought that it was fake that I had to go back the next day to recheck (if it was real, I told myself to buy it right away) 😆😆

[@therealkingdomhousewife3412]

You give me such life with your videos! I could leave your channel on all day long! Your knowledge of the plant world is so exciting and quite impressive! By far one of my favorite KZbin Channels!!! I have some of the plants that you featured in this video and I was tickled to hear you speak about them! Thanks for all you do to help us all on our plant journeys and with our plant families!💚🌿🌱🤗

[@Peony25001]

Thanks Nick, this was exactly what I was looking for. My son is moving into a new apartment and asked what plants I could recommend. All I had to do was share this with him! Awesome as always 😊

[@hannahm5278]

I had never heard of hoya wayetti before this video and it literally took my breath away. I've since managed to get my hands on a little plug (they're hard to find in my region) and I am so very excited for it to grow out over the rest of its life. Thanks for introducing me to that one, I love it so much.

[@fancypanda1993]

Something interesting happened when you looked at the Sanseveria close up like that. There is an American Movement of art with lines of color that go straight up and down and side by side of different sizes. They can cover an entire wall. The way to experience it is to walk as closely up to the art piece as possible, the lines of color cover your entire peripheral vision and you just stand there and take it in. You can get a sense of feeling of the artist while he is painting it. You are just a natural ;)

[@summerrose1520]

Love your channel Nick ! You're energetic . sense of humor and to the point . Please keep up the great work :)

[@TrishsOrchidLife]

Oooo I HATE fake plastic plants! Great advice on the light!

[@brittanyjones4995]

Omg, I laughed out loud at the end "What's wrong with me?". #relatable

[@karlyharris2941]

Hoya Wayetii is one of my absolute favorites 🌿💖

[@khalifdar4577]

I’ve been watching you for a few months and I’m new to the plant world. After watching you I’m obsessed with plants now! Btw I’m from philly too

[@wfm5121954]

I saw a Chinese Evergreen in a greenhouse yesterday. It was perfect. Every leaf. Exquisitely perfect. The only plant in the greenhouse that I liked. It would have gone home with me had I not used most of my resources this month on fertilizers and two sphagnum moss blocks. I’m happy. My plants are looking better already. I will always want more plants. I am trying to stay focused and making what I have look like perfection.

[@sarakaiser3324]

If only everybody looked at their significant other the way Nick looks at his Bantel's sensation! Lol so cute

[@SamGreenslyfox]

I haven’t been here in a while but god damn look at your channel go, Nick!!!! You’ve done so well and your plants, as always, look amazing. Xo glad to see you doing just as well.

[@sandyg8794]

Hi Nick! Those are some beautiful plants, and I agree with you that they are perfect enough to look "fake". The Sansevieria Bantel Sensation is at the top of my wish list. I have 2 Staghorn Ferns, in soil, that are pretty perfect, too. They are smaller than yours and I still need to try and get them mounted. I would say my Sansevieras, ZZ and ZZ Raven plants look "fake" worthy. Two Dracaena Warneckii and Janet Craig are, too. This was fun and love your sense of humor! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@Mikirono23]

I always steered away from air plants because of the reason you mentioned I thought they were hard to take care of but now I know they're easy. I have a feeling that I'll be buying alot of air plants and think of beautiful displays

[@madisson9775]

nick! as a plant sci major you teach me so much more than online learning right now!! thanks so much : )

[@karomariee]

I'm excited to add more agleonema to my collection!

[@kyrad6543]

I bought my Bantel's Sensation thanks to a previous video of yours. Mine is much smaller but it's so pretty and it is growing quickly and making pups. It's so beautiful.

[@Kris-ej4ik]

I love this channel because the video ideas are super unique! You go dude. You know how to make plant content well.

[@weareorigin]

"Is that one fak...." *gets slapped*

[@GEOMETRICINK]

My snake plant is flowering...I didn’t even know they did that.

[@jomassey5842]

Loved this video. Inspired me to try and care for air plants. So pretty and love the way you hang them on drift wood.

[@lynnsteiner1580]

I appreciate your videos Nick. My Dieffenbachia Compacta looks fake, it’s never had a yellow or brown tip in the three years I’ve had it. She’s large and in charge in my breakfast nook bay window which is east facing. I water her about every ten days or so.

[@lunamaxwell6190]

Thanks for sharing your not-so-fake-plants!!! I love air plants too. "Give it more light" so true!!! I have a Golden Pothos that wasn't doing anything for me for an entire year... so I took it outside and set it under a huge maple tree where is getting filtered sunlight, guess what? Now I have 4 new leaves in less than 3 weeks!!! :)

[@Pathrissia]

That silver snake plant is gorgeous!

[@jaaustin500]

I have a whole bunch of air plants--love these! they go pretty much anywhere and I do end up soaking them all at once just once a week while feeding them as well and that works fine---as well I can move them around and put them with different furniture so that people always look twice when there's a plant on top picture frames or the TV! :-)

[@jasminewaldo7045]

I love that a rubber tree plant made the list! My ficus elastica black prince looks the fakest of all my plants, because the color is so dark, and al the leaves are so shiny and healthy 😍

[@lleo9703]

THis was a very interesting video, Nick! I agree that staghorn’s are easy ferns. Can’t keep others alive at all! (Except for Asparagus Fern which isn’t a fern, anyway). My Ag “Wintery Winehouse” which looks similar to your ag is the fakest looking plant in my house. I also have the wayetii. (Slow grower....Very!)My calathias are looking more fake now that I’ve switched to distilled water and there are no browned leaves. Other two fake looking ones are peperomia graveolens and andromishus calico hearts.

[@ceciliareyes432]

Since the pink princess is so expensive, I am looking for a fake one. It will never die. Love your videos! I live in Campeche, Mex.

[@victoriaberngard588]

yeah plants with imperfections feel the most real :)

[@anndriggers6660]

That green pot is TO DIE FOR!

[@GardeningkiDuniyaYT]

These all plants are amazing and very beautiful

[@msagvik]

Loving the slight sassiness 🥰

[@sheylamejia1626]

Great, video! I agree and many houseplants look fake. I think some cactus and succulents look unreal to the sight. For instance the Coral Cactus or string of hearts, especially when they are bushy at the top.

[@TheLucille7]

Started collecting Aglaonemas after you talked about them a few videos back. They’re absolutely beautiful

[@ja-uh9gz]

I love all of those plants. I have the first one, the agleonema..and it looks good, like you said. That ficus is beautiful and want to get one. My problem is that I don't have a lot of windows...just eastern and western exposures (live in a townhouse with attached homes on both sides). If I had more light, I would have more plants. I do use grow lights, which helps a little. Thanks Nick!

[@susanzielbauer9256]

I just love your vids I watch every one! Love your down to earth approach!!👩‍🌾💚

[@jessalinnguyen1504]

i love that you call them vegan antlers! I've seen them but got scared because they were ferns, but I think I'll give them a try now!

[@AkkunPakkun]

I've heard people say that flowering anthurium looks fake. Mostly because the flowers are so shiny and waxy and last for so long it gives the plant a fake appearance. I have a flowering anthurium and I agree. 😂

[@aspiringpirate]

I nominate the alocasia dragon scale, it just looks like its straight out of a fantasy game, not real life

[@shaliniverma7020]

He loves this snake plant for real... I have seen in many of his videos ❤️🤣🤣🤣

[@memmooo90]

nick: this is my fakest looking plant nick 2 minutes later: no i think this is my fakest looking plant love your vids, xx

[@everlasting7thheaven]

In my home I feel like bird of paradise plant and clusia rosea princess look fake - green, hard leaves, no browning or wilting, slow growth. Also, my diffenbachia compacta is so beautifully painted looks almost fake ;) I also have ficus tineke and it is too good to be true

[@shirenaoutlaw5900]

I have a number of the plants in this video but I would say my fakest looking plant is definitely my alocasia maharani. It looks and feels absolutely fake, and I love it!

[@TheNIJUAL]

Really nice love the Chinese evergreen keep growing

[@Nonotme888]

Love your shirt! Lol! You got me cracking the first minute.

[@krspurrier]

Love your vids so much! How do you water the stag horn fern? Do you have that board on a wall or on a table? Do you list it or soak it? Thanks so much for your service to all of us. You are making the world a better and more loving place. I’ll see you in your shop when I visit Philly. I hope you will be there. 😘 Kurt

[@musicalmarion]

Hoya Wayetii, or sugar snap peas?! My one, might as well be fake, it never does a thing and grew a one inch stalk in 6 months then went to sleep again. I think I should consider a fake one haha! Great video Nick thank you

[@jt6563]

Great video. How do you keep the sphagnum moss from falling and making a mess?

[@Chariots1981]

What about a ZZ plant? When I first saw it, I couldn't believe how shiny the leaves are and how uniform in shape the leaves are.

[@christmassnow3465]

The prayer plants are often depicted as being painted with water-based colors. Definitely, the wavy and shiny surface of the leaves appear similar to the warping of a papery surface when the colors are applied onto it.

[@valeriehowden471]

Recent plant collector. Bought a calathea lancifolia 2 months ago. I just stare at it everyday cause there is no browning on the leaves and it keeps on putting out new leaves. Winter will pose a problem with low humidity however I may hide it behind a few sanseviera. Love your videos... Recent sub.

[@soniadomaradzka3120]

For me the plants that look absolutely fake are Scindapsus pictus. The silver on the leaves is unreal!

[@deaconsmom2000]

You let people touch your plants? I'd smack their fingers. No touchy unless it's a rare occasion and I allow a person to pet my K.tomentosa collection under my eagle eye. My plant collection is also mostly cacti, so there's that, too. People think many of my plants are fake. As if. I cite the D. Trifasciata 'Whitney'. I often can't believe it's real either. Gorgeous, gorgeous plant.

[@luci_datum]

Ferns do this for me, they look so... delicate, like how could THIS survive in any condition??? Turns out, they don't!

[@Paxton19681]

Love the Video! Also Nick! You be looking like a snack, looks like you got some sun!

[@ohboyitstara]

Damn nature you impressive!

[@ituzem8223]

Hi, Nick, thank you for the video) At 10:01 when you talk about air plants you show an interesting triangle (or a pyramid?) Is it yours? If yes - did you buy it or did you make it? Looks great)

[@InsubordinationFreak]

Original idea for a video and I loved the plants. I don't have an air plant yet. Looking around my collection and the majority look real. However, the following look so good that they may be fake. Sanseveria moonshine, ZZ plant, some kind of parallel peperomia, perfect neon pothos, painted princess aglaonema, aglaonema Maria, pilea spruceana (the colour can't be real!), peperomia graveolins, peperomia napoli nights, ctenanthe burle marx and some kind of rhipsalis that is outrageously fake looking. Could be plastic!

[@mr.spirofucci1493]

Great idea for a video. For a live plant to look fake it has to be near perfect....I don't have any of those 😧

[@neonux92]

Calathea triostar for sure. First time my mom saw it she thought i used something to color the leaves like chemicals :D

[@StefanNaydenov]

Sometimes we just need more light when struggling...

[@nityarao672]

Absolutely 💯

[@kimsmith1224]

That gorgeous green pot makes your Anglonema look even more fake Nick. You're correct all my healthy Calatheas look very fake.

[@arwyeyen]

Hi Nick, I have both of the tineke and ruby, not as big as yours, i wonder if it’s a good idea to pot them together since I assumed the care for them should be the same?

[@kateshelton7923]

Love your shirt! Can’t wait for my baby bantel to look like yours! 💕

[@nannybannany]

Aglaonemas are hands down mt favorite plant type I own. I might want to get that one because it looks a lot like the Diffenbachia Camille I keep looking at, haha.

[@cintilancia]

Hi Nick, love your videos! Are you familiar with Gynura aurantiaca? I have two and people always ask me if it's fake! Do you have any care tips?

[@sweetteawhimsy3998]

Awesome video. How do you water the stag horn fern?

[@twistysunshine]

Yeah I think the calathea thing is totally accurate. I've shown pics to my bf before and he was like "no. That can't be real."

[@jaquelinexsilva]

I was watering my friends plants and she had a ficus tineke and it’s big like 2-3 feet tall, looks so fake that after touching it I had to message my friend and ask if that plant was real, lol . Yes it was so real and healthy that looks fake. Now I’m obsessed with ficus, beautiful plants 🪴

[@devinmickey9855]

I have a dumb cane variety that has been questioned multiple times. It is a fun plant