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Get live plants delivered straight to your home to spruce up your garden or decorate your living space. CNET’s experts have picked out the best online plant retailers.
Shopping for plants online opens up a world of flora options.
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Live plants are a great way to add some life and color to your indoor and outdoor spaces. If it’s tricky to squeeze in a visit to the local plant shop, or you don’t have a good one nearby, you can stay home and purchase plants online to add to your planter or garden.
Shopping online isn’t just convenient — it also gives you access to a broader variety of plants, including rare and exotic species that may not be available at your local garden center. Reputable online plant shops will ship them out carefully packaged to ensure your plant arrives in good condition. They’ll also provide care instructions to help you spruce up your plant knowledge to keep your new additions healthy.
We’ve rounded up the best places to buy plants online, whether you’re a beginner looking for low-maintenance houseplants or an experienced plant lover hunting for unique finds. These retailers offer expert advice, detailed care guides, and high-quality plants, making it easier than ever to add greenery to your home.
If you prefer buying them offline and you frequent a family-owned nursery, local greenhouse or a store, that’s great. But that’s not accessible to everyone, which is why many plant owners turn to online shopping. And for more unusual plants, buying online may be the best option to get the exact flora you want, thanks to the wide selection.
You can also gift a plant subscription to have plants delivered regularly. For those in need of plants for specific purposes, like landscaping, there are specialized online plant vendors. And if you don’t have a green thumb, you can go for one of the many low-maintenance options that are easy to keep alive.
Why buy plants online?
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, ficus and flowers guaranteed to brighten a corner, window, shelf or room.
When you buy your flora on the web, you can choose from common or rare 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 greenery stay green. Most of these online plant retailers also carry a wide range of stunning pots and planters to display your new verdure in many styles and colors.
Buying plants gives you access to more info
Shopping with an online plant marketplace 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 nearly 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 also buy outdoor plants online
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 2025.
Plants make excellent gifts for a new homeowner, holiday gift or as a pick-me-up for someone feeling the winter blues. Whatever your goals are as a plant parent, these are our picks for the best places for buying plants online in 2025.
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Buying plants online opens up opportunities to purchase plants that might not be available at your local nursery. If you fancy an exotic variety to spruce up your decor, online might be the way to go.
Buying plants from larger sellers with plenty of reviews is a good idea. This ensures that you receive a healthy plant.
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David Watsky Senior Editor / Home and Kitchen
David lives in Brooklyn where he’s spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips. David earned his BA from Northeastern and has toiled in nearly every aspect of the food business, including as a line cook in Rhode Island where he once made a steak sandwich for Lamar Odom. Right now he’s likely somewhere stress-testing a blender or tinkering with a toaster. Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week.
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