Best Plant Delivery Services

Bloomscape was started by fifth-generation greenhouse grower Justin Mast, who set out to create a memorable plant-buying experience. The Detroit-based company has perfected the art of shipping live plants with a specially composed soil that helps them thrive. The brand also provides support to buyers long after the greenery leaves the nursery.

For Bloomscape, having plants is about creating a positive atmosphere at home. "Plants help create gezellig. It’s one of those words with no English translation, but it means coziness, an intimate social feeling that you get when you’re in spaces you love with people you love," Mast told Vogue shortly after the company launched in 2018. "I realized that shopping for plants is not gezellig at all." Hence, Bloomscape was born.

Perusing Bloomscape is a cinch with its simple categories. Buyers can shop for indoor or outdoor plants that come sized from extra small to extra large. The filters also allow buyers to whittle down options based on the intensity of light, difficulty, pet friendliness, and whether or not the plant helps to clean the air. Its outdoor offering called Bloom Kits offers a potted combination of plants meant to thrive together outside.

Bloomscape also sells gardening tools and maintains a helpful blog with tips and tricks for keeping its plants flourishing. Bloomscape will replace any plant purchase for free if it dies within 30 days of delivery.

Lively Root’s goal is, in part, to create a community around its product: "We have a keen interest in developing a community, and really becoming a horticultural resource as opposed to simply a marketplace,” Lively Root co-founder Jon Ewing told Garden Center magazine shortly after the company’s launch in April 2019. “Our idea is that we don't see ourselves necessarily as a home decor site, but more as a horticultural lifestyle site.”

Lively Root’s blog features plant education and inspiration tips to help stoke that lifestyle component. It also sells potted, hanging, green, and flowering varieties sized small through extra-large. The site helps shoppers hone in on the right variety for them through filters such as care, water, light, humidity levels, and pet-friendliness. While Lively Root’s focus is mostly on indoor plants, it does offer seasonal outdoor plants and bulbs as well.

Leaf & Clay is known for its huge variety of succulent and cacti options and its nearly foolproof shipping method which means plants arrive in pristine condition. The brand has a slightly higher price point than comparable online succulent purveyors, but it makes up for it with over 100 varieties of succulents on offer and its high rate of shipping success. It also offers succulent and cacti packs (priced from $30) that can kick-start any desert houseplant garden.

Leaf & Clay started as an Instagram account by brother and sister team Nick and Lauren Sandford before becoming the eCommerce destination it is now. The site ships its plants dry-root (meaning without soil) and without the original nursery pot in order to protect the plant and reduce shipping costs. The customer is responsible for purchasing a heat pack if the plant is shipping to a cold-weather climate.