House Plant Collection - 6 Plants

All six plants turned up in great condition — healthy, well‑established, good size and exactly as described. Delivery was quick and everything was packed properly. Really happy with the quality, they look great and were ready to go straight to my mother for mothers day.

These plants are fantastic. They are amazing value for money. They were packed well, were delivered quickly and arrived healthy, green and all 6 were good sizes. Will definitely buy more.UPDATE - AUGUST 2023Bought these at the end of January 2023 and they are growing and are great plants! They look great in my bathroom window and don't need much looking after. I just water them every now and again. All are fantastic value for money!

Delighted with these.All beautiful and apparently healthy (a couple were very dry but this was easily remedied and doesn't seem to have affected them). Most needed repotting as their roots were coming out of the bottom of the pots they were in but I probably would have repotted anyway.Regardless of the small issues, I think these are fantastic value and I would definitely buy them again.

An excellent selection of healthy plants.

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This is a phot of them straight out of the box once I’d removed the bamboo canes in every pot. The plants are in excellent condition, the plant I was really looking forward to getting was the asparagus sprengeri and it did not disappoint, good sized lush plant. Bought during the Black Friday deals for just over £31 when the same sized asparagus fern was £11.98 on its own! Would thoroughly recommend and would definitely use this seller again.

My hope is that the following information will spare someone out there some bitter disappointment. So here goes... I bought these plants, and they came in fantastic shape. If I lived near London, instead of in Scotland, I'd definitely buy from this nursery again if I wanted more plants. Now like most of us, I had this image in my head of hubby and I sitting around with some lovely looking greenery right next to us. After all, we don't buy plants to put them in the closet, right? We buy them to look at them. And in my mind I had a fond memory of the vast array of thriving houseplants I once had in a large bedroom that was baked by bright, desert California sun. Well, now it's winter and I'm in Scotland with a weak arctic sun that barely peeks out a few hours a day, and spends most of that time ducking in and out of behind clouds. It's freezing cold, and when the radiators aren't on, the temperature in the house plummets. Enter six innocent little tropical plants into this harsh reality. They want warmth, instead they're blasted with cold. They want consistent temperatures, instead they're getting tossed between cycles of really cold and decently warm. They want humidity. What they're getting is blasted with extremely dry winter air 24/7.Now the little things all came rootbound, which on the one hand says "I'm thriving!" and on the other hand says, "Repot me quick before I suffocate!" So I repot them--just one size up, as everyone says to do so they don't panic. What soil to get? According to the endless sea of gardening blogs online, "well-draining" is vital. Well, good luck with that. All "well-draining" soil online seemed to come with unwanted residents and the reviewers were quite upset. After a lot of stressing and searching, I finally went with "coconut noir" which "drains, yet retains" (how does THAT work??). Well, a short while later my plants are all showing signs that they are drowning from excessive watering. Nope, I wasn't making the classic newbies mistake of overwatering, because I'd been warned against that by every person who ever typed the phrase "gardening advice" in an internet article. So I was being super careful not to soak, but the dirt was doing it for me by never draining. The poor things were living in a swamp. Now I was desperate, so I decided to go for Cactus soil, because it seems to be the only mix on the planet that ACTUALLY drains well, thanks to all the sand and gravel that's stirred in. (Yes, you can make your own...if you have the room to do such things, which I do not.) Well, by the time I got the dirt sorted, all of my little greenies were in revolt due to insufficient lighting. If I can stress one thing to potential buyers, it's this: you MUST have decent light, or you're just buying six versions of death in a pot. Hubby and I are avid gamers, which means we close the curtains in our living room for the better part of the day. This means plants cannot be near us, like ever, because it turns out we spend most of our time in the shadowy corners of our home. Even my office turned out to be too much of a dim refrigerator for these greenies to survive in (even the fern, which is supposed to be "more tolerant" of low lighting). You'll never look at your house the same again after you try to see it from the perspective of languishing plants. After trying absolutely everything, it turns out the only place I can park my plants during the day to get them a few hours of somewhat decent sun is smack in the middle of our king sized bed. So I use trays to keep the dirt from going everywhere and judiciously transfer them into the bedroom each day, where they spend their entire day working up new complaints about how it's too dry and too bright. This is filtered light, mind you, yet still the little darlings are browning and yellowing in the fashion of "foliage burn" which happens when they get too much direct light. At this point, one plant has hit the bin due to irreversible rot, two others are looking at death's door, another is looking on the fence about its will to live, and another is developing a new brown spot on a new leaf after a day of basking the sun (you're welcome!). The ONLY pant that shows any sign of pluck is the species that everyone says is ultra fussy. So go figure. I've got fussy pants parked in my kitchen on one of only two available counter spaces and it seems to like it. I simply don't have any space to park them all in there, and even fussy pants will soon grow too big and start colliding with the overhanging cupboards. Placing these things has been an absolute nightmare, and wherever I place them, I never get to look at them, or benefit from their oxygen, which was the original point. So this has been a rather bitter experience. My caution to you is this: give serious thought as to the lighting in your home. Take a tour through the rooms during the day, observe the natural shadows and overall dimness and say to yourself "how much light is actually here?" One test I was told was to hold your hand up in a spot where you'd like to put a plant and observe the shadow that gets cast onto the wall. If you don't see fairly clear outline of your hand that is only a little blurry, then the lighting in the that spot is probably insufficient. If you place these things near windows for the light, they languish because of the draft or because the light is too intense. If you place them by radiators for the heat, they languish from the dryness and more drafts. If you place them in shadows made by furniture or in rooms where the sun never directly peeks in, they languish due to not enough light. I mist mine with peppermint oil in the water, which is antifungal and helps stave off diseases. Misting is a way to help them with humidity, but they dry out super fast due to how dry the air is right now. Everyone says "water trays!" and no one tells you about the reeking, slimy algae that quickly develops when you go down that road. The bottom line is this: jungle plants are meant for jungles, or at the very least some very warm climates. They are not meant for bonny Scotland. I'm trying to get mine through the winter, but I really don't think they'll make it much longer since everything I try to do for them results in complaints (except for fussy pants, who thrives and slowly becomes a nuisance of a space hog on my very limited counter space while he plays with the idea of growing some kind of white furry substance on the surface of his soil). I plan to invest in a few quality fake plants after these croak, because at least then I'll be able to have the things near me, and enjoy the visual if nothing else. A final caution I have to offer is this: the delivery of these things is rather stressful due to no solid advice given regarding WHEN they will arrive. First I received a very vague estimate, which was fine. Then I got an email saying they would come at the earliest in three days time. Great. Hubby and I went out to the shops and were right in the thick of things when I got a second email saying they'd arrive at any moment. We RUSHED home and barely beat the delivery man. This isn't the sort of parcel you want to leave undelivered because the plants obviously aren't going to thrive in a box. The carrier they use is very unhelpful in communicating accurate shipping information, so once you get any kind of estimate, I'd suggest you remain close to home until they arrive, as they might suddenly spring on you days early. Now if you feel you live in a virtual greenhouse, and you have already identified some "well-draining" soil, then go for it. I will personally never plant in anything but cactus soil again, because everything else seems to turn into a bog. But if you feel that you are probably in too much of a cave for jungle plants to have any chance, then do yourself a favor and spend your money on some quality fake ones instead. After buying these plants, a set of draining trays (because they don't come with any), a whole new set of pots and trays (to transplant them), three rounds of soil (because the first one was a mess and the second one was insufficient), a bunch of rocks (for draining trays, which were a disaster), and a large spray bottle, I can see that all I'm going to end up with in the end is a large spray bottle. It just isn't worth it, unless you've got the light, the heat, and hopefully a chance at actually seeing the things for more than a few minutes a day. Best of luck to you all. :)

Absolutely gorgeous plants, they arrived carefully packaged and protected so that they were super healthy, not crushed and still in nice damp compost. I couldn't believe how big and lush they were, over the moon with them!