What You Are Actually Paying For

Hands writing a message on a meaning card beside a coffee plant — The part of the price that is not the plant.

A plant gift from us runs $16 to $60, plus $9 shipping, free over $90. That buys a nursery-grown plant rather than a supermarket one, a real pot instead of the plastic it was grown in, a printed meaning card with your message inside, hand packing, and two to three days in transit for something alive. A comparable bouquet costs more and is gone in five days.

Nobody asks this out loud. They just look at $46 for an anthurium, think of the $12 one at the grocery store, and close the tab.

So here is the honest answer, including the parts that do not flatter us.

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The eight people order most, from $16. Every one sent with a card you write yourself.

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The grocery store plant is not the same plant

It usually is the same species. It is rarely the same quality, and the difference is in how it was grown and how long it has been sitting.

A supermarket plant is typically grown fast, shipped in bulk, and then kept in a lit aisle with no humidity and a watering schedule set by whoever has time. By the time you buy it, it may have been there for weeks in conditions nothing tropical enjoys. That is why so many of them decline the moment they get home: the damage was done before you touched it.

Ours ship from the nursery. They are potted and sent within a day or two of the order, so the plant in the box has been in grower conditions right up until it was packed. That is the main reason one costs more than the other, and it is also the reason one tends to survive.

None of which means a supermarket plant is a bad buy. If you want a pothos for your own kitchen and you can see that it looks healthy, buy it there and save the money. The case for ours is about what arrives at somebody else's door, unseen by you, as a gift.

What is in the box

What	Why it is there
The plant	Nursery grown, packed within a day or two of your order
The pot	Your choice. The nursery pot is the cheapest option and it is a real pot, not a bag. The eco pots cost more because they are a finished object the recipient does not have to replace
The meaning card	Printed, with the plant's meaning and story on the front and your message inside
The packing	Done by hand, kraft paper, braced so the soil stays in the pot. A heat pack in cold months
The shipping	$9 flat, free over $90. Two to three days, from whichever coast is closer to the address

The honest line about the pot: the cheapest version of every plant we sell comes in the plastic nursery pot. It is a perfectly good pot and plenty of people repot anyway. If the price difference matters, take the nursery pot and spend nothing on the upgrade. We would rather tell you that than have you assume the eco pot is compulsory.

The comparison that actually matters

Not the grocery store. The thing you would otherwise have sent.

	Delivered bouquet	A plant from us
Typical cost	$60 to $90 delivered	$16 to $60, plus $9
How long it lasts	Five to seven days	Years
What happens at the end	They throw it away	It is still there
Carries your words	A florist's card, typed by someone else	A printed card with your message inside

A $34 monstera that is still in the room in two years costs about five cents a day. A $70 bouquet that lasts a week costs ten dollars a day. That arithmetic is not a sales trick, it is just what the two things are.

Every plant ships with a meaning card. The front names what the plant stands for and tells its story, and the message you write at checkout is printed inside. Packed by hand at the nursery closer to you, in Florida or California. $9 flat shipping anywhere in the US, free over $90.

Where the price lands, plant by plant

The range, end to end

Parlor palmWelcomefrom $16

Coffee plantKeeps everyone goingfrom $20

Peace lilyPeace and comfortfrom $28

MonsteraAbundance and expansionfrom $34

Under $25 buys a real gift here, which is not true everywhere. The parlor palm at $16 and the coffee plant at $20 both arrive with the same card, the same packing and the same meaning as anything else on the site.

The part we will not pretend about

Three things, since this is supposed to be the honest page.

Shipping a living thing has a failure rate. It is low, but it is not zero. Extreme cold and extreme heat are the two risks, and a box that sits on a porch all day in July is the usual culprit. If it arrives in bad shape, tell us within seven days and we replace it. That promise is the actual answer to the risk, not a claim that it never happens.

The photo is a mature plant. On a 4 inch pot you are buying a young one. We say the size in inches on every listing for that reason, and the monstera article goes into what that looks like in practice.

You can buy the same species cheaper. Nearly always. What you cannot easily buy cheaper is a healthy specimen, chosen for what it means, packed by hand and delivered to somebody else's door with your words on a card. That is the thing being priced.

still there in two years

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Start at $16. The card is included on every one of them, and so is the handwriting.

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