These aren’t up in the online shop yet, but feel free to phone to order. Simple, cute jar-terrariums, with interesting indoor plants.
A nice gift for a desk or kitchen, for a person who likes plants. These are easy to maintain – just water a little bit once a week. Add your own ornaments or mementos to personalise it, or make the terrarium into a mini world or scene-scape.
Presented in cute hessian bags – these quirky rhipsalis or ‘mistletoe cactus’ are a great gift. They are quite hardy, and easy to maintain.
If you’re anything like me, then you’ve been in the position of searching for fun gifts to send relatives who don’t live nearby. This can be quite difficult if you’re a ‘planty’ person, looking to send faraway friends a growing gift. I have often not been able to find budget-friendly, planted gifts that can be delivered with a card message. So, I thought, why not at least offer this to like-minded people, a living plant gift delivery service in our area here on the Gold Coast.
Yes, but why “LittlePlants”?
Because, we’re not about big palms trees or plant hire for offices, etc. we’re about the specialness of small things, and simple, thoughtful, gifts.
Shop our Selection But we may have things in the shop that we don’t have online yet – do call us.
We are super excited that more new plants arrived last week – we have been busy doing them up into all our usual fun containers and terrariums, but we still have more to do…
Remember that if you need living plants delivered on the Gold Coast, we are more than happy to help if we have what you need.
New arrivals include a lot of really good house/indoor plant varieties: aglaonemes, bird nest fern, crotons, fittonias, rabbit’s foot ferns, etc.
Why not come by and check out our studio in Parkwood!
We are also able to plant up your own containers if you have something in mind.
See you later lovely humans, we’ll be out the back with potting mix on our hands!
x
LittlePlants
If you’re anything like us, these ceropegias, or chain of hearts, plants are high on your all-time favourite list.
Not only easy to care for, and cute as buttons from your local craft store, they are also warmly nostalgic and Nanna-ish, for some reason. We like to think of them as heirloom plants – things found under old balconies and down the bottom of the garden.
But, you can take them and make them into other things too. Here we have constructed a simple wire heart, and simply curled any new growth around it.
The result is a ‘heart of hearts’!
Yes, we are plant tragics, we know…
Till next time fair folks.
x
The LP Team
Air-plants are back, and you know that makes us excited – We’ve been air-plant tragics since before the craze came and went…
Limited number, super cute…
Come get some, people!
We have lots of hanging sedum ‘burrito’ or ‘burro’s tail’ now in stock.
Available from the online shop or pick up from our studio in Parkwood (part of Adam’s Garden Florist).
They are happy and easy-going little plants, low maintenance. We have them presented in cute hessian bags.
Ever wondered what to do with that old pair of slipper-boots that’s too worn out to wear, but still looks ok at the top? Of course you’ve wondered that, we all have right?
If you’re a plant person like all of us are, then you know exactly what to do with it – upcycle it into a plant pot, of course!
Here is a version using a pair of old furry slipper boots from Kmart – #kmarthack ! Yes please! Simply cut the top off the boot, turn inside out, sew the bottom together, turn the right way again – and wahlah! A pot!
Super funky, yes? These ones look a little bit Cookie-Monster, but that’s ok with us, and with our dwarf sanseveria here.
African Violets are beautiful little plants – with one drawback – they don’t like to be watered from the top, nor be too soggy underneath. So how to fix the problem, but neatly?
One of the most common ways is to sit the plant’s container on top of a take-away container filled with water – with a thick thread going between the two to act as a ‘straw’ sucking water from the container below to the one above.
Here is another example of a way we have also used – sitting the plant’s container on top of fine pebbles, with the thread down amongst them. This way is a little bit more ‘gifty’ and neat, but provides the same function.
We have always had a soft spot for chain of hearts plants, they remind us nanna’s and heritage backyards and all things good.
We have them in store from time to time – do check with us if you are after some!
These funky almost-flat vases made for some unusual plant houses… Perfect for our fittonias.
If you’re a keen indoor-plant person, always keep an eye out for interesting containers, and why not give some a try – you never know what’s going to work until you try! Old aluminium tea-pots are a favourite of ours too – hanging from the ceiling with unexpectedly shaped hanging foliage.
Looking for something particular? Why not pop in and see what we have in store! We don’t have everything online all the time…
We have added some new succulents to the shop – these funky curly-leaf crassula. They are pretty easy to care for, just a little water once a week, but they are ok if they dry out a bit between times.
We are loving the pairing of their grey-toned foliage with the concrete planters.
Fittonias, also known as ‘nerve plants’ are lovely shade plants which are fantastic for terrariums and other indoor uses, also for planting in damp-ish shady areas outside. They love low to medium light. They will go well in a window if not in the hot hot sun (e.g. a window that receives just morning light). They also like high-humidity, which is likely why they thrive in the terrarium environment. Costa Farms and TheSpruce have some great info on them too.
What we most love about these little plants is the many different leaf colours. Fittonias can come with white veins, pink, red, and variations of all of those, and the colours have awesome names like ‘white angel’ and ‘red flame’.
In April last year, we had the privilege of going down to the Pollinate exhibition at Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney . In a large, light-filled enclosed greenhouse an abundant array of amazing plants was on show. The star of the entire presentation, in my view, was the trails of cascading sagey-grey-green dichondria – aka ‘dichondria silver falls’. The entire space was kept humid and moist from a light mist sprayed into the air almost continually up near the glass ceiling.
I only wish we could have brought the whole display back with us!
These hurricane vases are one of the most popular items on our website, and in-store. They are a nice size and presentation for gifting. Sometimes we plant out with succulents, and sometimes with lushly-foliaged indoor plants.
In the photo above you can see the progress of planting out some tillandsia cynea in the hurricane vases.
To order one, simply phone us, order online, or pop into the shop (but do check we have stock before you come in, just in case we’ve sold out! Although, there’s sure to be something else you’ll find…)
When choosing a plant or container, think about the style of the room where it will be.
Here at Little Plants, we particularly like the natural finishes – concrete, upcycled fabrics, jute, wood etc. And we love plants with contrasting shaped and textures.
Have you been in lately to see what we have? Check out our shop section online – but there is always more in-store than we have on the web, do contact us if you’re after something specific.
A couple of years ago we started to experiment with small aquatic plants. The feedback has been great. The concept is really about making cute mini aquatic ‘terrariums’ (or really, mini aquariums – without the fish!).
We have used a variety of glassware, from vintage bottles to premium laboratory glassware. All seems to work well and be fairly low maintenance. The hardiest variety would have to be the hair-grass plants.
If you are planning to make one of these yourself, here are a few tips on what worked for us:
– make sure all bottles are very clean. (We washed ours with super-hot water and a little bleach before hand.)
– if you can get it, use aquarium-grade gravel, in a very small size. We have tried both ordinary gravel and aquarium gravel, very small and small, and the very small aquarium gravel was the best and easiest to work with.
– choose the best plants. Talk to the plant person about which are going to survive the best in the type of environment you will be creating. If your plant will be in a lot of light, or not much. If it will have a lot of room in your container, or not much (in which case you might need a slower-growing type of plant). All those types of things.
Happy planting!
We love the look of concrete pots, but there are some things to keep in mind when planting in them. Here’s a brief run-down of some things we’ve noticed:
1. If you are planting directly into a concrete pot with a raw (unpainted) surface, it will require you to water your plant more often. The concrete will suck out the moisture in the soil, much like terracotta. For some plants, like some succulents and cacti, this can be a good thing, but for other plants, not so much.
2. If you have a raw-concrete pot and want to plant in it, consider painting or waxing the inside, to seal it against the soil, so it doesn’t steal the moisture. Or, find a plastic pot of the same size and sit that inside the concrete pot. This will also create the necessary barrier and stop the concrete from drying out your soil so quickly.
Hope that helps!
Happy planting, people!
x
Little Plants Team
The humble and ever-loved peace-lily, or spathiphyllum, gives you a lot of reasons to like it.
With varieties ranging from small leafed to large, this beautiful houseplant will give back much more in green-leafed-love than the little water it takes to keep it.
These living gifts will survive in light conditions from fairly low light, to bright windows, and they will tolerate some neglect
What we like most however, is that unlike some other plants which might do what we call ‘random spontaneous death’, these spathiphyllums will let you know if they’re really really thirsty, letting their leaves sag a little if they are dry, giving you ample time to notice and remedy the situation well before it is anywhere near to death. An early-warning alarm for plants – totally awesome.
Our stock varies a little, but we usually try to have them in store. Pick up available from Parkwood on the Gold Coast, or we can deliver for you to most local areas.
Yep, yes, aha – our cute little plants in pill-shaped glass are back in stock. Woohoo!
How do we get the plants in there? you ask.
Chopsticks.
Yes, chopsticks.
Hold onto those fine tools after you’ve finished your sushi folks, because they are the best thing you’ll find for maneuvering little plants into these tricky places. Or, just let us do it, it’s all cool.
More different plants in store, remember you can always phone if you’ve got a question.
See you
x
LP team
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