NYC Plants, Delivered by Hand the Same Day Across New York City

A plant is the one gift in New York that keeps working after the card is read. A bouquet lasts a week. A peace lily on a windowsill in Astoria or a money tree on a desk in Midtown is still there a year later, and the person who received it thinks of you every time they water it.

This collection is where New Yorkers buy plants online and send them without the boxed-shipping gamble. Every plant is chosen, potted and inspected in our flower shop nyc and carried by our own drivers to apartments, offices, hospitals and doorman buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, usually the same day you order. No cardboard box, no courier hub, no wilted leaves on arrival.

Plants You Can Order Online Today

Six plants, each one picked because it survives real New York conditions: radiator heat in January, a north-facing window, a week of forgotten watering.

• Braided Money Tree ($150): a pachira with its signature braided trunk and glossy five-leaf clusters, planted in a woven basket. Tolerates lower light, needs water only when the top of the soil is dry, and looks right on an office floor or beside an apartment sofa. The most sent plant for new jobs, new offices and housewarmings.
• Bushy Peace Lily Plant ($200): our fullest peace lily, tall and dense with white blooms, in a neutral planter. Thrives in the dim light most New York apartments have plenty of, and tells you when it is thirsty by drooping slightly, then perks up within hours of a drink. The classic sympathy and get-well plant.
• Peace Lily Plant ($100): the same plant in a smaller, white ceramic pot. Sized for a desk, a bedside table or a hospital room shelf, and easy to carry home from the office.
• Jasmine ($79): a fragrant flowering plant that fills a room with scent when it blooms. Loves a bright window and a little humidity. A favorite for birthdays, for anyone who grew up with jasmine at home, and for the kitchen windowsill.
• Mini Rose Plant ($120): a compact rose bush with pink blooms in a decorative ceramic pot. Flowers again and again with bright light and regular watering, and can move to a terrace or a fire-escape planter in summer. A living alternative to a rose bouquet.
• Mixed Dish Garden Basket ($79): several small green plants and a touch of yellow bloom planted together in one basket. Nothing to assemble and very little to do; water lightly once a week. The easy choice when you do not know the recipient’s home or light.

Want an orchid, a snake plant, a ZZ plant, a pothos, a fiddle leaf fig, a bonsai, a large floor palm or a set of succulents? We source these regularly. Call us with what you have in mind and we will tell you what is in the shop today and what we can bring in for tomorrow.

Send Plants in NYC for Any Occasion

New Yorkers send plants for the same reasons they send flowers, and for a few reasons flowers cannot cover. Here is what people order most, and which plant fits each one.

• Get well soon: a peace lily or dish garden to a home or hospital room. Low light, low effort, and it will still be alive when they are back on their feet.
• Sympathy and condolences: a full peace lily is the plant families keep long after the funeral flowers are gone. Sent to the home in the weeks after a loss, often with a note that simply says you are still thinking of them. See our funeral flowers NYCcollection for arrangements sent to the service itself.
• New apartment and housewarming: a money tree or a large peace lily for the first empty corner in a new place. It becomes part of the room in a way a bouquet cannot.
• New baby: a jasmine or a dish garden for the parents, something they can enjoy without extra work in the first weeks.
• Birthday: a mini rose plant or jasmine for someone who would rather keep a gift than throw it out on day eight. Our birthday flowers NYCpage covers the bouquet route.
• Thank you and appreciation: a desk-sized plant to a colleague, a teacher, a doctor, a doorman, a client. Small, thoughtful and never in the way.
• New job, promotion, retirement: a money tree or peace lily for the new desk, delivered on the first morning.
• Congratulations on a new office or store: a floor plant for the reception area, with the company name on the card, delivered before opening day.
• Just because: sometimes a plant on the doorstep with no occasion at all is the best message. Our just because flowersand thinking of you flowers pages are the bouquet version of the same idea.

Every plant comes with a handwritten card. If you want to add a bouquet, a box of chocolates or a fruit basket alongside the plant, take a look at our

Plants for NYC Apartments: Low Light, Small Spaces and Radiator Heat

Most plant guides are written for houses with big south-facing windows. New York apartments are not that. Here is how we choose plants for the city, and what to send when you know the recipient’s living situation.

• Low-light apartments (north-facing, airshaft or courtyard windows): peace lily, money tree, dish garden with pothos and philodendron. All three grow slowly but steadily without direct sun.
• Bright apartments (south or west windows, high floors): jasmine, mini rose, succulents and flowering plants that need real light to bloom.
• Small studios and shared rooms: the smaller peace lily, the dish garden or a compact rose. They sit on a sill or a shelf and do not take floor space.
• Radiator heat in winter: steam heat dries the air. Peace lilies and money trees handle it well; jasmine and ferns like a spray of water on the leaves a couple of times a week or a spot away from the radiator.
• Air conditioning in summer: keep plants out of the direct AC stream. Cold, dry air on leaves is the most common reason a New York plant drops leaves in July.
• Pets in the home: peace lilies and jasmine are not safe for cats and dogs that chew leaves. If the household has pets, tell us at checkout and we will recommend a pet-safe plant such as a parlor palm, calathea, spider plant or peperomia.
• Terraces and fire escapes: a mini rose or jasmine can spend May through September outdoors and come back in for winter.

Office Plants in NYC

Companies in Manhattan and Brooklyn order plants from us for three reasons: to welcome a new hire, to fill a reception area or conference room, and to send to clients, business contacts and employees at home. Desk plants like the small peace lily and the dish garden come in a size that fits a workstation. Floor plants like the money tree and the bushy peace lily anchor a lobby or corner office.

For bulk orders, such as a plant on every desk for a new office, a client gift list or a team appreciation week, send us the list of names and addresses and we will deliver on one day or on a schedule. Each plant carries its own card. We deliver to office buildings during business hours and leave plants with the mailroom or reception if you prefer.

Plants Delivered to Hospitals in New York City

A plant is the gift many patients prefer, because it does not need a vase and it goes home with them. We deliver plants to NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian, Lenox Hill, Mount Sinai West, Bellevue, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Maimonides, Elmhurst, Montefiore and other hospitals across the five boroughs. Give us the patient’s full name and the unit or room number and we hand the plant to the front desk or the unit desk, as the hospital requires.

One honest note: intensive care units, transplant units and some oncology floors do not allow plants or fresh flowers. If you are not sure, tell us the hospital and unit and we will check before the plant leaves the shop, or suggest a gift that the unit will accept.

Which Indoor Plant to Buy: A Quick Guide to Types

Plants sold in New York fall into a few families. Knowing which one you want makes it easy to order online without guessing.

• Flowering plants: peace lily, jasmine, mini rose, orchid, kalanchoe, anthurium. They bloom on and off through the year and give the color of a bouquet with the life span of a plant.
• Foliage plants: money tree, pothos, philodendron, ZZ plant, snake plant, monstera, fiddle leaf fig, rubber plant. Grown for their leaves, and mostly forgiving of low light and missed waterings.
• Dish gardens and planted baskets: several small plants arranged in one container. The best choice when you want a full, finished look with no assembly.
• Succulents and cacti: small, sculptural and nearly impossible to kill in a bright window. Popular for desks and for people who travel.
• Palms and large floor plants: areca palm, parlor palm, kentia, dracaena. For lobbies, living rooms and anywhere with floor space.
• Bonsai and specialty plants: ordered on request for collectors and for special gifts.

How to Care for Your Plant in New York

We tuck a short care card into every plant we deliver, and these are the basics that cover nearly every plant on this page.

• Light: peace lily, money tree and dish gardens are happy in bright indirect light and tolerate low light. Jasmine and mini roses want the brightest window you have.
• Water: check the soil with a finger. Water when the top inch is dry, then let it drain. Overwatering kills more New York plants than underwatering.
• Humidity: steam heat and AC both dry the air. A quick mist of the leaves, a tray of pebbles with water under the pot, or a spot in the bathroom for a day now and then all help.
• Feeding: a diluted liquid plant food once a month from spring to early fall. Nothing in winter.
• Repotting: move up one pot size every year or two, when roots show at the drainage holes. We can repot for you if you bring the plant to the shop.
• Trouble signs: yellow leaves usually mean too much water; brown crispy edges usually mean too little humidity; dropped leaves after a move are normal and stop within two weeks.

If a plant we delivered is struggling, call us. We would rather talk you through it than have you throw it out.

Same-Day Plant Delivery in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island

Plants ordered in the morning are delivered the same day across Manhattan, from the Financial District and Tribeca through Chelsea, Midtown, the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side, Harlem and Washington Heights, and across Brooklyn including Williamsburg, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Bay Ridge, Fort Greene and Bushwick. Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island deliveries go out the same day when ordered early, otherwise next morning: Astoria, Long Island City, Forest Hills, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Riverdale, Fordham, St. George and beyond.

Plants are hand-carried, never shipped. They ride upright in our van, wrapped against cold in winter and shaded in summer, and are handed to the recipient, the doorman or the reception desk. Below-freezing days are the one exception: on those days we call to arrange a time when someone can receive the plant indoors immediately, because ten minutes on a cold stoop can damage a tropical plant.

Buying Plants Online in NYC vs Mail-Order Plant Shops

National plant websites ship in boxes. The plant spends two to four days in the dark in a truck, arrives with soil spilled and stems bent, and needs a week to recover before it looks like the photo. When you buy plants online from a local New York shop, the plant you see on the page is the plant that arrives, in the pot pictured, delivered upright the same day, with a card in your words. For a gift, that difference is everything. For your own apartment, it means no unboxing, no repotting and no waiting.

What Plants Cost in NYC

Plants on this page are $79 to $200, and the price includes the decorative pot or basket, the care card and hand delivery. Larger floor plants, orchids and specialty plants are quoted when you call. A plant at $79 to $100 is comparable to a mid-sized bouquet and lasts many times longer, which is why so many New Yorkers have quietly switched to sending plants for birthdays and thank-yous.

How to Order Plants Online

• Choose a plant above, or call us about orchids, large plants or a specific variety.
• Pick the delivery date at checkout. For same-day delivery in Manhattan and Brooklyn, order in the morning.
• Add the recipient’s address, apartment or suite number, and a phone number, plus the hospital unit or company name if relevant.
• Write your card message and mention pets or low light if you want us to double-check the choice.
• We pot, inspect and hand-deliver the plant, and send you a confirmation when it arrives.

NYC Plants: Frequently Asked Questions

Can I get same-day plant delivery in NYC?

Yes. Plants ordered in the morning are delivered the same day across Manhattan and Brooklyn, and to Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island when ordered early. Plants are hand-delivered by our own drivers, not shipped.

What is the best plant to send as a gift in New York?

The peace lily is the most sent plant in the city because it thrives in the low light most apartments have and it blooms. The money tree is the favorite for offices and new homes. For a fragrant, cheerful gift, jasmine; for a living version of a rose bouquet, the mini rose plant.

Can you deliver a plant to a hospital in NYC?

Yes, to NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lenox Hill, Montefiore, Maimonides and other hospitals across the boroughs. Give us the patient’s name and unit; we check the unit’s plant policy before delivering.

Which plants are safe for cats and dogs?

Peace lilies and jasmine are not pet-safe. Parlor palm, calathea, spider plant, peperomia and many succulents are. Tell us the household has pets and we will recommend and source a safe option.

Do plants arrive potted, or do I need to repot them?

Every plant arrives in the decorative pot or basket shown, ready to place. No repotting is needed for at least a year.

How long will the plant last?

With the light and water on the care card, a peace lily, money tree or dish garden lives for years. Jasmine and mini roses live for years too and bloom in cycles. All of them far outlast cut flowers.

Can I send a plant and flowers together?

Yes. Add a bouquet, a fruit basket or chocolates to the same order and we deliver them together in one visit.

Do you offer office plant delivery and bulk orders in NYC?

Yes. We deliver single desk plants and bulk orders of any size to offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn, with a card for each recipient, on one day or on a schedule.

What if the recipient is not home?

We leave plants with a doorman, a neighbor or a mailroom if you allow it, and we call you before deciding. We do not leave plants outside in freezing or very hot weather.

Do you deliver plants in winter?

Yes, all year. In winter plants travel wrapped and are handed over indoors. On days below freezing we arrange a time when someone can receive the plant right away.

From a peace lily on a hospital shelf to a money tree in a new Brooklyn office, our flower shop nyc team delivers living plants across the city every day. If you are choosing between a plant and a bouquet, our NYC best sellers show what New Yorkers send most for every occasion.