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 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
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…
Does anyone else love stumbling across unique vessels for their plant collection? You are not alone! We like to keep an eye out wherever we go for new and interesting plant containers that we can bring to you in our shop (and also for ourselves!).
Also, if you have a particular container waiting for a plant, and unsure what to get, feel free to bring it in and we may be able to plant it up for you. We often have spare plants ready for potting up and you are welcome to browse and select from what we have.
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’.
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…)
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
Our new shipment of fiddle-leaf figs is totally awesome – get one now!
They are 70cm+ and super lush like a rainforest understorey plant.
You can pick one out yourself, just pop in to our Parkwood shop. Or, we can deliver for you (on the Gold Coast, most areas), all done up ready for gifting.
Ever heard of peperomias? Now you have 🙂
Do you need any more convincing?
Bulleen Art and Garden has some more great care tips here.
Aglaonema is such a mouthful isn’t it! Nevertheless these plants are awesome.
Yates has some good growing tips, and Bamboo Land does too, as well as some hints on how to pronounce that tricky name! (‘Uh-glon-eh-ma’ thanks Bamboo Land lol)
If you’d like to buy an aglaonema or other living plant gift – check out our online shop to see what available. We always have more in store than what’s listed online though, so do feel free to phone if you have a specific plant in mind. Or, you are always welcome to pop in – we are part of Adam’s Garden Florist at 3/280 Olsen Ave, Parkwood 4214.
And remember – we deliver to most areas on the Gold Coast. Gifting made easy, how good is that!
The bird nest fern, or ‘asplenium victoria’, features quite often in our living plant gifts. It is a great addition to any indoor space or office, or outside in a shaded position.
I’m glad you asked – here’s why:
When we have them in the shop we water once a week only, making sure they are not boggy. It is also important to make sure they are not sitting in a draft (such as constant air-con flow). Sometimes they may appreciate a spray with water to keep up the humidity if the air is dry.
Hiya folks,
Been a while since posting – so busy… but great news – for all the succulent lovers out there we have three new trays of 80mm pots in, with all sorts of aloes, haworthias, gasteraloes, crassula, etc… Plus a few ginormo aloe-ish things all pointy and spiky and wonderful, there’s a dark green one there that looks so tough it makes me think of rhinoceros horns.
Fiddle leafs and housy planters added to the shop >link<
Plus other things in-store we haven’t had a chance to add yet – call if you are after something you can’t see 🙂
It’s getting cold out there today, rug up my darlings
x
Little Plants
Our little studio faces east, so all we get is the morning sun. It’s a challenge to find plants that will do well with just that amount of light. You might have a challenging spot too, so here’s some things we have found that survive and thrive.
These come in so many varieties. We have found them to be very hardy and tolerant to be inside with filtered light. You can see nice pictures of many other varieties here at The Succulent Garden.
These also come in lots of different kinds, you will find they often have ‘collector’s tags’ if you are buying from the local nursery. They can handle fairly low light, but to flower they will need more light.
Although some crassula need more sunlight, there are a number of them that we have grown indoors with no problems, including crassula ovata (plantsonline has a good description of it), crassula gollum, and crassula hobbit (not to be confused with crassula gandalf. Just kidding. No, actually not kidding, it does exist…).
I’m not sure of other sedums, but this one is so wonderful, we’ve never had any trouble with it. It gets enough light from the window. A customer told me they even have it growing in their bathroom with no issues, and it’s even getting very long and is happy.
Again, does well in the window. The main thing is like with the Zanzibar Gem, to make sure you don’t over-water it or it will rot the rhizomes (small potato-like things under the ground which the roots come from).
There’s other things too of course, but these our our top picks for the moment.
Butterfly House
$39.00
Plant care & Wellbeing
$10.00 – $35.50
Reading Bee
$15.00 – $25.00
Dark Chocolate Sweets
$6.00 – $12.00
Winebar Chocolates
$12.50