I love plants but I admittedly have a brown thumb.  For me,  this is the next best thing to a real plant.  You definitely need to fluff it up after taking it out of the box.  Also, the pot that it comes in is disproportionately small and cheap looking.  But after "planting" it in larger, nicer pots with actual dirt, I think the pair that I bought look quite nice and surprisingly realistic on my front porch.  The only giveaways that they're fake are if you get up close and touch it (and the fact that they're so green in the middle of a Denver winter! ).