Our 9 Best Etsy Houseplant Shops For 2020

We’re passionate about plants, both of the indoor and outdoor varieties and have planned many of our recent holidays around visiting Royal Horticultural Society shows and arboretums spread across the country.

The garden and greenhouse are our go to places when the Scottish weather is safe enough to step outdoors.

It’s no secret either that Eden Indoors handcrafted office accessories were created with the primary aim of bringing more indoor plants into your workspace.

So when making recommendations about where customers can go to reliably fill their new recycled plastic plant pots it was, and remains, extremely important that the plant store can provide beautiful houseplants and is up to the task. 

Buying plants online however has inherent risks. You can’t see or touch the plant you’re going to receive like you would in a traditional garden centre. Nor can you have much control over how the plant will be packaged to prevent damage during transit, or how the impact of the journey will affect the plant.

To support small businesses we tend to buy most of our house plants on Etsy, and thought it would be useful to share some of the best Etsy houseplant shops that we’ve found during our searches and recommend to others. 

Factors that make a special Etsy houseplant store include:

• A demonstrated knowledge of houseplants
• A varied plant selection
• Plants organised into helpfully named categories
• Proven good customer service
• Experience on the Etsy platform

We’ve tried to spread the geographic range of shops on this list in the knowledge that the less time plants spend tucked away in a stuffy, dark, sealed box the better condition they’ll be when arriving on your doorstep.

To be sure that our recommendations held up we also ordered a few new plants for ourselves. You can find out if our mail order plants survived the journey or if it was a complete #plantfail by scrolling down.