I love these 48" arborvitae plants. I have only had them for a few days but they really due look like the real thing. I am using them under my front porch which has a covered roof. They are on the small scale and like many reviewers I purchased tall/bigger planters filled 3/4 of the new pots with sand then placed the shrubs still in the pots they came in on top of the sand, then topped off with tiny gravel, looks awesome!! This made them 62" tall instead of 48" I left mine mostly closed up instead of widening the branches out because of the smallness of my porch. Love the look. The pots I got are taller then they are wide, like 15" across top and 20.5" tall fits the width of the arborvitae shrubs branches very well. They arrived in excellent condition and quick. Wayfair is treating us well on this product.