If your lifestyle or lack of memory skills prevent you from being able to maintain hanging plants or other foliage which depend on you for life, these plants are for you.  The basket is not skimpy; it is sizeable and the fake plants fill it out completely.  I ordered two of them and will likely order another one to fill in my whole porch.  I have gotten compliments on them since I got them, and people can't tell that they are fake until they are close.