Do you use fake plants and flowers?

Because by year end the “live” ones die. I have to use fake plants to keep color going. 😓 I k w nature is all about teaching birth, life, and death. But I want my garden to look alive!!!! I’m such an inconsistent gardener that I’m going …with ….plastic!!!! Futile! I’m embarrassed ? guilt? because I don’t own the real thing. Because I don’t have what it takes to really garden. I feel like … a fake. I worked so hard on one spot in the garden look nice (using fake plants) That the final result looked like a well maintained burial plot :-( I’m not even good at a fake garden!😃 I guess my new “burial site”…. Is for my dead plants!!!😮