Both. I have two large, live fiddle leaf figs, a small live terrarium with succulents and some faux orchids, lilies and cyclamen.

the silks started years ago when i was a "cat" person and afraid they might eat something they shouldn't....and with less inclination to clean, lol, it's down to 2 bunches on the stairs which I change with the seasons...we've as some luck with outside plants but dh is the only one caring for them...we have a vacant lot next to us and it's a hot bed of poison ivy, and I can get "it"...too quickly...something inherited from my mother....thank goodness the silks I have are easy to clean in the shower....

Real only, and not as many as I used to. For all the expanse of windows in this house, the deep overhang outside doesn't lend itself to growing things indoors as did my large skylights at my former home. Love the house, but plants aren't as happy here inside. I have two coffee trees, the largest isn't making the transition as well as the 3 footer in my office. Neither has bloomed since I moved them here. 4 prayer plants, 2 cast iron plants/aspidistra, one violet (gift many years ago on Easter so I keep it, they aren't my fav), a handful of small chirita. The chirita was also a gift, or rather a trade and it self sowed into its pot so I divided and have a little colony now.

I have mostly real plants. Some I winter over and then they go out again in the spring/summer/fall. I do have a fake paper whites in an oriental bowl that belonged to my sister who has passed away. I like having that out where I can see it. :)

I have mostly live plants and one dried flower/grass arrangement. I have a lot of silk flowers in my crafting box, but haven't used them yet.
Right now, my tropicals are overwintering inside like Murraysmom. Hopefully they can go back out in a couple of weeks.

I suck with the care taking of real plants indoors! But I don't have fake either. Since I have quite a few breathing issues, and thus, have problems with dust, I really don't want anything like fake plants, or cloth curtains...

Moni

PS, I love to garden, and have a nice garden retreat for myself.

I have one live plant, it's an aloe vera that started out as a tiny one section plant I got at the grocery store for $4. Then last year I brought it inside in a 8 inch pot and now it's almost too large for me to carry! HA! I bring it inside during the winter. I have one fake ficus tree with lights inside. I used to have my house filled with real plants but I don't have any place for them now. I hardly even have a spot of the aloe.

Party, all you have to do now is have the photo on your desktop and then choose Photo below and it will find it and that's it! Much easier now. No links required. I hope you see this and post your picture. I would love to see all the flowers you have going right now. I have a cactus with a couple of little yellow flowers. My spath and AVs are now flowering right now.

I have an antique wooden bread bowl on my kitchen table. In it is a 'nest' of silk greens. I add a sequence of potted blooming 'whatevers' from the grocery store in the middle of the greenery. (Violets, kalanchoe, cyclamen, etc.)

None of either. The silk ones are dust catchers and I don't want to dust them. The allergist told me absolutely no live plants. I think I'm allergic to everything that grows. I am in the minority of people that is NOT looking forward to spring......

Real only. Some are cacti that I've had for 25 years, others are vines that I hang on the front porch in warm weather. And I have one overgrown Dracaena that has twists and turns in the trunk--from growing toward the light, because I forget to rotate it

I do have several vine-type garlands of silk autumn leaves, which I use on the dining tables for the fall months.

Hi mm. Putting photos on my desktop isn't what I want to do and adds more steps. I just want the ability to embed an image tag in a post and houzz appears unwilling to allow that. I don't like that houzz is taking a copy of the image and resizing it and storing it on their site. I just won't be posting photos here anymore.

On a bright note, I walked around the house and also noticed my chirita tamiana, tiger eye begonia, and tall sansevieria all blooming too. :)

Indoor live plants cry when I just even walk by them at the greenhouse. I can grow anything outside, but move it in the house and they die on me. One silk plant, only, and if DH would let me, I would chuck it. I hate dusting the damn thing.

I too have lots of live plants in every window, always have. Couldn't get along without them. One I cherish was given to us as a wedding gift 47 years ago. I have repotted it and given parts of it away more times than I can count. Another my dtr started from a single jade leaf when she was 7 or 8. She is 30 now, and the Jade is BIG! I love that my plants are budding and beginning to flower again. I'm thrilled every time I look at them.

Sheesh

Only real plants. I also don't have any flowering plants. I had an orchid which I showed proudly here numerous times because it was Freecycled to me as 2 bare sticks. I got it to re-bloom several times. It finally gave up the ghost.

Hubby wants to get another one though, as he liked it a lot.

I bought a little Norfolk Island Pine which we decorated as our Christmas tree. It sat on the table in front of the living room windows. It's really growing. I was afraid it might be hard to grow, but apparently not.

I also have a Schefflera which is also very nice. The leaves are so glossy, people ask me if it's fake.

2 avocados which I grew from the pits which are also growing nicely. Also the top of a pineapple.

I have to be careful of the kinds of plants I buy because Bud, one of our cats is a c hewer. Much as I love Dracaenas, Palms etc, the slim leaves are a magnet for him.

I have 2 small spider plants hanging in the kitchen window......so far so good with being out of his reach.

Neither unless you count the artificial tree we put up at Xmas. We do keep fresh flowers on the entry table.

I have lots of real plants.

I am, typically, grossed out by plastic imitations.

I have gotten my wife some silk roses on occasion .... and some of the silk Moth Orchid (which I can't seem to grow) offerings are tempting.

Murraysmom......that's a good way to fill up your hard drive. I don't like not being able to post a link either.....

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I have lots of real plants. My fiddle leaf fig is 31 years old! Real orchids that rebloom....and 1 vase of silk flowers in the guest bedroom.

Sheesh, what is that plant that you got 47 years ago? I bought a rubber plant decades ago for 39 cents at the grocery. Now it's in a large pot on the north side of the house, and if I didn't whack it back periodically, it would be as tall as the house. I'm sure it's rooted to the ground and immovable.

I have an anthurium, peace lily, palm, pothos and the one that is trying to die, zebra plant. Oh, of course, the shamrock plant I just picked up for St. P Day. I'll plant it outside eventually, though they are fairly invasive. Quite a few houseplants can survive outside here.

I enjoy houseplants; have always had some. They add so much to a home.

Also have a few silks just put out for spring, not many, 2-3.

Socks, its a nepthytis (I think) all green. I let it trail and vine in one pot, but keep it bushy in others. Versatile.

I have another ordinary, very bushy and viney philodendron, also all green, but every once in a while it produces a gorgeous ivory streaked leaf or two. I sure would love to maximize that!

Real plants only but most don't come in the house except in very cold weather.

Thank all of you for the comments on your plants.

Sheesh, I've seen those in the nurseries but have never owned one. Nice.

I am often told my house looks like a jungle, I LOVE my plants! I do have 2 fakes that look real. In fact, I had a friend over this past weekend that was stunned when I told her it was fake, not sure what it is suppose to be but looks like a small willow tree & my other is Rosemary.

I bought some nice silk plants some months ago and then bought a number of real plants. Initially, I went with the silk because I don't have a lot of light because of trees near my home. However, with low light plants and using tiebacks on my curtains, the real plants I have are thriving.

The real plants need more care but they grow and are appealing. I think both kinds, real and silk, can have their own niches, it isn't an 'either/or' equation.

At work, I have three live plants. Nothing at home. They're at work because my fluffy one decided she'd eat the two spider plants my son got (just one start) from his 2nd and 3rd grade teachers. I saved them and one grew wildly, while the other eventually faded away :( Cats! How they can be so dang irritating sometimes, but make me so happy? It's a conundrum.

Real only in this house. I would have to dust fake ones. Just like the furniture and I don't do that often enough. My husband has the green thumb in this house. We have them inside and outside the house. He just saved several plants for out daughter in law who left them in the moving van. This was 2 weeks ago and they are thriving now. Peace lily, I think its a called a phothos, green leaves, and a couple of geraniums. Plus many other plants.

Apparently I have both and didn't even know it. My office has a sky light and one wall is entirely glass with a view of a patio. Too much sunlight for me, as it puts quite a glare on my computer screen. So I have been adding plants to the counter tho give me some shade and others bring their plants to me because their offices don't get enough light. One gal brought in a cute little cactus with orange flowers on it. I have been faithfully watering it when necessary and everyone is amazed at how long those flowers have lasted. Well, about a month ago I looked at it very closely and guess what I found? The flowers are real enough (straw flowers), but they are GLUED to the cactus. How deceptive!

I was thinking what you finally said Donna. It's actually a common practice. Dang them.

" I would have to dust fake ones."

Depending on the size of the leaf, or whether you can just put the pot out in the rain or in the shower, sometimes one has to dust real plants also.

Yeah, I have to sometimes dust my real plants, but I just wash the leaves with a wet rag. They like it. Plant massage. :) I don't have a lot of house plants (year round garden outside, right now choking with roses). Although I own a fake cactus, it was part of an art project. I have an antherium on my bathtub ledge that is currently blooming. It usually gives me one bloom in July. It might be happier elsewhere, but it's been fine there for 14 years. :) It was a present from she who was the lady next door when I was a child. There's a garden window in my kitchen where I had a lot of plants before they got ants. They went outside. Now it has several phalaenopsis that were given to me in December. One may be beyond help, but two have spikes. There's also a little plant with red brachts and white flowers which perks up in the sun and droops at night, and a little red leafed plant I grew from seed, but doesn't seem so happy now that it's in a real pot. And one low light plant in the powder room, which I may need to move to more light. Plants die in the powder room, but they make it nicer, so I try to catch them before they die....

I have 3 fakes and several real ones. I occasionally take the fake ones (orchids) outside and gently wash with a hose spray. I like the blooming orchid fakes for the bathroom.