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Artificial tree buying guide

Updated: 18 October 2026

You have a corner or a hallway in mind, and three amazon.co.uk tabs open on trees that all claim to be about six feet. This artificial tree buying guide settles the height, the pot, and the specification table. It covers decorative faux floor trees: olive, palm, fig, eucalyptus, a bushy ficus, and short topiary pairs. Christmas-tree advice answers a seasonal fir, which is a different product. The twelve listings sit in the [artificial tree comparison](/hub/trees-and-palms/artificial-tree). Prices there run from about £33.99 to about £99.99. This page does not rank them. The Products Compared editorial team updated it on 16 October 2026. A qualifying purchase can earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

You have a corner or a hallway in mind, and three amazon.co.uk tabs open on trees that all claim to be about six feet. This artificial tree buying guide settles the height, the pot, and the specification table.

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Alupssuc Alupssuc 6 ft olive tree

Best overall

Alupssuc Alupssuc 6 ft olive tree
7.3/10about £43.22
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Alupssuc Alupssuc 5 ft olive tree

Rank 2

Alupssuc Alupssuc 5 ft olive tree
6.9/10about £42.49
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FEELEAD FEELEAD 210 cm olive tree

Rank 3

FEELEAD FEELEAD 210 cm olive tree
6.0/10about £80.59
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On this page
  1. 1.What you are buying
  2. 2.Height and spread
  3. 3.Pot and weight
  4. 4.Material, wire, and light
  5. 5.A checklist before you pay

What you are buying

A faux tree here is a trunk and a canopy you stand in a room so you do not have to water it. The look is the first split. An olive is a narrow grey-green column, often with fake fruit. An areca-style palm is slim stems and arching fronds. A fiddle-leaf fig and a eucalyptus are broader indoor shapes. A 90 cm ficus and a pair of 70 cm boxwoods or cedars are doorway and shelf jobs. They do not stand in for a 180 cm floor tree. If you already want fruit and a narrow footprint, the artificial olive tree or palm page takes that fork. If the title says the tree can live outside, read artificial tree indoor or outdoor before you plan a patio. Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 11, makes the description part of the contract. Height, species, and indoor and outdoor are words you can hold the seller to. A lifestyle photo of a basket is not, by itself, the basket in the box.

Height and spread

A title that says 6 ft and a bullet that says 180 cm are one claim. A title that says 70 cm, a bullet that also says 28H, and a table that says 10 × 10 × 10 mm are not. Use the title on those THKFUL pairs and ignore the millimetre row. FEELEAD is the opposite case: 210 cm in the title and a table of 55 × 55 × 210 cm, a footprint you can picture. Width fails even when the height looks honest. The Alupssuc 6 ft table is 90 × 19 × 180 cm, and nineteen centimetres is not a canopy. The Alupssuc 5 ft and Aptliton tables are pot-scale, about 13 cm and 15 × 18 cm. If the listing never says whether the pot is inside the height, treat the headline as the whole object.
Alupssuc Alupssuc 6 ft olive tree

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Alupssuc Alupssuc 6 ft olive tree
7.3/10about £43.22
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Pot and weight

The pot in the photograph is often a styling prop. Blooming Artificial tells its own buyers to leave the starter pot in place and to use a decorative planter at least about 30 cm wide for a large tree. That matches what UK reviewers say about this set. A cement-filled base is a claim. It has not stopped reviews that describe a tree falling over. FEELEAD states a weighted nursery pot and states that the basket is not included. The Leaf 90 cm ficus arrives in a plain black plastic pot, and the listing says ceramic planters in the photos are illustration only. Alupssuc titles mention a white pot, and UK reviews on both the 5 ft and the 6 ft say that pot is too small. CROSOFMI claims cement in a pot about 15 cm across. Keeplush's 180 cm palm is described with a pot of about 6 inches, and UK reviews say it tips. THKFUL's doorway pairs need pebbles because the supplied pots blow over. Plan the outer planter as part of the purchase.

Material, wire, and light

Silk or fabric leaves are an indoor dust-and-wipe job. Plastic or PE plus an explicit UV line is the outdoor candidate UK plant shops describe, and that line is still not a weathering test. Most tall listings claim wired or adjustable branches. The Leaf ficus says the stems are wired. Aptliton claims adjustable branches, and UK reviews say the main stems will not bend to widen the tree. Read that disagreement before you assume every adjustable bullet behaves the same way. Built-in light is absent where the field is filled, so none of these trees is a lamp. The Keeplush eucalyptus claims silk leaves while the material field says plastic. Treat a conflict as a reason to read the reviews.

A checklist before you pay

Confirm the height in centimetres and leave headroom. A 150 cm tree and a 210 cm tree are different rooms. Confirm the species: a narrow olive for a hallway, a palm only if the fronds have width, a 70 cm pair for a door, a 90 cm ficus when you never wanted six feet. Confirm the pot in the box, and budget a wider planter when the published base is about 15 cm or UK reviews already say it tips. Confirm whether branches are wired, and whether outdoor use is actually stated. If the word UV never appears, keep the tree indoors. The best-page write-up names one tall fit and one skip. It will not repair a table that cannot describe the canopy.

Common questions

Does the height include the pot?
Often the listing never says. Leaf and Hortology, as UK retailers, measure from the base of the starter pot, and one amazon.co.uk olive outside this set states that 180 cm includes the pot. In this set, treat the title height as the figure to stand under. A 30–40 cm gap to the ceiling is Leaf's rule of thumb, not a regulation.
Is 150 cm or 180 cm enough under a normal UK ceiling?
A typical UK ceiling around 2.4 m leaves air over both, if you keep that 30–40 cm clearance as a rule of thumb. 150 cm, often sold as 5 ft, is the easier fit in a low room. 180 cm fills a standard corner. 210 cm, about 7 ft, belongs in a high hall, and it is where that clearance starts to fail.
Why is the specification table 10 mm or 13 cm wide?
A 10 × 10 × 10 mm row on a 70 cm topiary is a broken table. A 13 cm or 15 cm width under a 150–180 cm height is usually the pot, published where you expected the canopy. The FEELEAD 55 × 55 × 210 cm table is one of the few that describes a footprint. When the numbers cannot describe the product, use the title and the photos.
Is the pot in the photo the pot in the box?
Often it is not. FEELEAD says the decorative planter is not included. The Leaf ficus says the same about ceramic. Alupssuc and the palms include a small pot that UK reviews then replace. Blooming Artificial's advice, for its own trees, is to keep the starter pot and hide it in a planter about 30 cm wide or more.
Do I need wired branches?
You need them if you expect to dress the tree out after delivery. Most tall listings here claim wire or adjustable stems. Aptliton's UK reviews say the main stems will not fan, so a bullet and a review can disagree. The Leaf ficus is sold as ready to display and still has wired stems you can tweak.

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Sources

Public UK sources from the research digest, last checked on 16 October 2026. Shelf prices, stars and review counts are the amazon.co.uk figures in the display file for these twelve listings. Leaf counts, cement bases and UV lines are seller claims, not a test run for this page.

  1. Kent Fire and Rescue Service: artificial or dried foliage (retrieved 16 October 2026)
  2. GOV.UK: fire safety risk assessment for small and medium places of assembly (retrieved 16 October 2026)
  3. General Product Safety Regulations 2005 (retrieved 16 October 2026)
  4. GOV.UK: product safety advice for businesses (retrieved 16 October 2026)
  5. Consumer Rights Act 2015, section 11 (retrieved 16 October 2026)
  6. Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 (retrieved 16 October 2026)
  7. Leaf: outdoor artificial plants guide (retrieved 16 October 2026)
  8. Artificial Eden: how to shape artificial trees (retrieved 16 October 2026)