50+ Most Realistic Faux Plants for Front Porch (2025)
I’m so excited to share my decorated front porch! Each year, I combine both real and faux plants for the best of both worlds. I rounded up 50+ of the most realistic faux outdoor plants for every season. These options will save time and money.
With these best faux plants for your front porch, you’ll enjoy no more wilting and watering! Invest once and they last for years to come.
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50+ Faux Plants for Front Porch By Category
Over the years I’ve slowly let go of the “do it all” mentality.
Because, turns out, I really can’t do it all.
So rather than throw in the towel on potted outdoor plants for my front porch altogether, I decided to mix faux plants in with real plants. This cuts down on my watering and maintenance time.
Plus, it lets me use the same faux plants year after year, which saves on the budget long term.
When we had our lake cottage, I used faux plants for my window boxes as well! Since we weren’t there regularly, I needed something that would look beautiful without my attention.
Plus, faux topiaries are the absolute easiest way to flank a front door! I use evergreens to maintain green year round. Boxwood in the spring and summer and cedar in the fall and winter.
Here are the best faux plants for a front porch, broken down by category, and then by season.
Best Faux Topiaries and Evergreen Trees
- 7.5″ Cedar Decorative Sphere (14″ shown on my winter front porch)
- Set of 2 4 Foot Cedar Trees
- Set of 2 Cedar Trees
- 32″ Cedar Tree
- 20″ Cedar Ball Topiaries
- Set of 2 Boxwood Topiaries
- Lavender Topiaries
- 27″ Boxwood Triangle Topiary
- 45″ 5 Ball Boxwood
- Fall Yellow Sphere
- Set of 2 Spiral Topiaries
- Boxwood Sphere (shown by my front door)
- Set of 2 24″ Topiaries
- Set of 2 Jasmine Topiaries
- Set of 2 Vertical Topiaries
- Set of 2 3′ Double Ball Topiaries
- 46″ Boxwood Topiary Tree
- 58″ Topiary Tree
Boxwood and cedar spheres are my favorite faux plants for a front porch.
Best Faux Outdoor Greenery
Best Outdoor Faux Flowers
- Camellia Tree
- 24 pc Lavender
- 20 pc Satefello
- 20 pc Lavender Monkey Grass
- 8 pc Fushia
- White Lavender
- 12 Pack Eucalyptus (shown in my window boxes, multiple colors)
- Silk Blooms
Best Potted Faux Plants for Front Porch
- Feeling Fine Urn Filler
- Maiden Hair Fern
- Blue Hydrangea
- Topiary Ball in Grey Pot (as shown in front of my cottage)
- White Hydrangea
- Snake Plant
Best Wreaths
- Fern wreath (as shown on my red door)
- Boxwood wreath
- Peony Wreath
- Hydrangea Wreath
- Tulip Wreath
- Cherry Blossom Wreath
Best Outdoor Stems
Faux Porch Plants by Season
I always find it so fun to pull together a mood board for front porch decor for each season.
While I still try to mix in some real plants when the season allows, faux plants are a standard year round. Below are my favorites, which you can also shop in one easy access list on my Storefront.
Winter Porch
For winter, the best faux outdoor plants are ones that will span the Christmas and winter season. I like to go with evergreens that warm up the porch alongside simple solar lanterns.
- Pine cone evergreen wreath
- Evergreen wreath
- Potted Boxwood Topiary Set
- Lantern Set
- Decorative Cedar Sphere
- Norfolk Pine Garland
- Cedar Tree Set of 2
Spring Porch
A spring front porch should be simple, in my opinion. A flush of color with simple topiaries flanking the front door is just enough to usher in the season. You don’t want to be unrealistic by going full bore on plants that wouldn’t naturally be ready to endure the changing season. Pair with one of the wreaths from above.
Summer Porch
For summer, I let vibrant green shine as the focal point. This is easy to do with boxwood topiaries and faux ferns. Add in a few pops of color with blues or pinks.
Summer is when I really mix in real plants alongside my faux porch plants. Annuals, ferns and even perennials that I can transplant in the fall are great compliments to fake greenery you don’t have to worry about.
- Solar string lights
- Boxwood Topiary Set
- Boxwood Sphere
- Eucalyptus Wreath
- Fern Wreath
- Hanging Fern Set
- Hydrangea Urn Filler
Fall Porch
Fall is known for mums, pumpkins and evergreens. However, a couple of years ago I stopped buying real mums that couldn’t withstand a bought of heat or missed watering sessions. Instead, I purchased these extremely realistic faux mums.
They come in 7 colors, mine are in the color merlot. I’ve left them out for an entire year, fully exposed to rain, sun and snow, and they still look as perfect as the day they arrived.
They’ve transformed how my front porch looks for fall from sad and droopy to vibrant and healthy. I mix them in with faux cedar topiaries for a fall front porch I don’t have to maintain at all as the weather turns colder.
- Mum pot filler
- Japanese Maple
- Cedar evergreen sphere
- Fall eucalyptus wreath
- Autumn leaf wreath
- Shop my favorite autumn decor accents here
Large Outdoor Planters Under $50
If you’re looking for some beautiful outdoor planters to put your new faux plants in, these ones are beautiful options under $50!
Floral foam will also be your best friend for arranging your bushes and stems inside the pots.
More Realistic Indoor Faux Florals
While this article focused on faux plants for a front porch, make sure to also check out my favorite faux florals for decorating indoors.
Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! I hope that seeing the 50 best faux outdoor plants has been helpful.
If you are looking for more warm seasonal decorating ideas, make sure to check out these articles next!
And see how I decorate my front porch year round with these easy porch decorating ideas.
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~Sarah
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“So many brilliant, low-maintenance ideas! The seasonal faux plant selections are both beautiful and budget-wise.”
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A house with many decorations and plants always makes us love it more. Love how you decorate the living space. Thanks.
these faux plants look so real! I never thought about using artificial plants for the porch
These faux options look so real, I might actually try some! Thanks for the inspo!
Wow, this is super helpful! I’ve been wanting to add some greenery to my porch but I’m terrible at keeping plants alive.
Faux plants on the front porch? Genius move—zero maintenance, year-round beauty, and budget-friendly. Love the mix of topiaries and seasonal styles!
A house with many decorations and plants always makes us love it more. Love how you decorate the living space. Thanks.
You have some of the best ideas and decor. You are so inspiring and helpful, Thank you so much for allowing me into your world. Blessings to you and the family.
Really well researched recommendations. Your faux greenery and florals look stunning.
I don’t think it’s nearly as controversial as it was 10-15 years ago. We all got wiser. Let’s face it. Sometimes it is a design must. And your choices are perfect.
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