The best places to buy plants online for 2022 – CNET [CNET]

Even if you don’t have a keen eye for design, adding live plants to your home or office is an easy and instant upgrade for any space. Plants add natural color and a breath of fresh air, quite literally. Buying plants online is not a wholly new idea but your options for scoring houseplants, window greenery and even outdoor plants on the web have grown significantly in the past few years. There are plant subscriptions, specialty plant markets and those with budget-friendly plants and flowers. 

If you have access to a greenhouse or plant store that you love, great! But not all of us do and that means getting your plants from an online market may be the best option to secure the exact flora you desire. 

Buying plants online means a bigger selection

Depending on what sort of access you have to plant shops, buying your houseplants online may mean a much bigger selection. With so many varieties available from online plant stores, you skip the meager selection at the hardware store and scan an endless virtual garden of potted plants, ferns, ficuses and flowers guaranteed to brighten a corner, window, shelf or room. 

When you buy for your flora on the web, you can choose from common or exotic plants, mini cacti and succulents, hanging plants, flowering plants, planters, faux plants, air plants and large indoor floor plants that anchor an entire room. Better yet, popular online plant markets such as Bloomscape and The Sill provide specific advice for plant care to help your new green stay green. Most of these online plant retailers also carry a wide range of stunning pots and planters to display your new verdure in a myriad of styles and colors.

Buying plants gives you access to more info 

Shopping with one of these online plant marketplaces also makes it easy to find pet-friendly potted plants that are safe for your pup or cat. And if your thumb isn’t as green as you’d like it to be, you can find easy-care plants that are darn near impossible to kill with many sites offering easy-care or low-maintenance plant sections filled with rugged flora in all sizes and styles. 

These online markets and vendors offer meticulous information on how to care for your new plant, so even if it’s not low-maintenance, you’ll have a better chance of keeping it alive when armed with planting, watering and sunlight recommendations.

You can buy outdoor plants online too

Beyond indoor plants, we dug up a solid option for buying bigger outdoor plants online including fruit trees, vegetable plants, vines and shrubs for landscaping in case this is the summer you’re finally turning the backyard into a natural wonderland. And if you’re looking to grow fresh herbs inside without having to touch a single grain of soil, we’ve got you covered there too: Check out CNET’s list of best indoor pod gardens in 2022.

While we haven’t yet tried each and every plant delivery service on our list, we called out the ones we have. Beyond that, we’ve based these selections on a particular service’s overall selection and plant varieties offered to help you find the best plants for your style and space.

Plants make excellent gifts for a new homeowner, sweetheart on Valentine’s Day or as a pick me up for someone feeling the winter blues. Whatever your greenery goals are as a plant parent, these are our picks for the best places to buy plants online in 2022.

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