Tropical houseplants, rare aroids & starter plugs

We grow and acclimatise tropical plants at Upper Helmsley Nursery Studio near York, in 6,000 sq ft of glasshouses run alongside the studio where we blend our substrates. Plants arrive here as tissue culture plantlets, rooted cuttings or young stock, and they are grown on in the same genus-specific mixes we sell, in clear slotted pots, so the root ball you receive is already adapted to an airy, peat-free substrate rather than a dense propagation plug. Pests are managed with predatory mites and nematodes instead of systemic neonicotinoids, and every plant ships with a UK Plant Passport under our APHA professional operator registration.

Choose by stage and budget. Baby and starter plants in 6–9cm pots start at £4.99. Tissue culture cups at £8.99–£34.99 are the cheapest route into rare variegates if you are willing to deflask. Collector specimens from £60 are photographed individually and sent as the plant pictured. Rescue boxes from £15 contain healthy plants with cosmetic faults.

Live plants are dispatched Monday to Thursday only, with a 1pm cutoff, so nothing sits in a depot over a weekend. Below 5°C we add the Winter Thermal Guard, and above 32°C we hold orders at the nursery. Each plant is covered by our 7-Day Live Arrival Guarantee. For care by genus, see the genus guides.