I was 100% pleased with the realistic look and feel of this silk plant. However, my purpose for buying this silk plant was to replace a live but now "dead as a door nail" plant. I got tired of replacing a *** .+ Aborea live tree every other year; the maintenance is very tricky. So the plan, which was successfully carried out, was to keep the 5'9" trunk of the live tree and replace the dead leaves with the silk leaves, making it 7' (the height of the previous live tree) when we were finished. See the below pictures.