Let's be real. Artificial plants are better than real plants. Real plants are dirty, they're maddeningly dependent, and they're always intruding into our lives, with their perpetually growing limbs and the higher water bill they entail. Artificial plants provide all the scenic beauty of real plants, without you having to pamper them every minute until the day they die. In fact, they don't die at all, so you won't have to worry about the inevitable heartbreak that comes as a package deal with any real plant out there. If artificial plants sound too good to be real, it's because they are.