Corporate Plant Gallery
The Secret to Long-Lasting Indoor Plants
Plants naturally thrive outdoors, where they receive the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. When moved indoors and confined to containers, they face new challenges, limited light, air conditioning, and frequent contact in busy areas, all of which can cause gradual decline. In addition, plants also need a holiday - a chance to get out of the office and back into fresh air.
In the absence of experienced and patient staff to look after these indoor and container plants, there will be a gradual deterioration in the appearance of the plants over several months.
Our maintenance service ensures our indoor plants remain vibrant through regular care, cleaning, and rotation. We also keep a wide range of shade-tolerant plants in our shade house, ready to replace or refresh displays as needed.
The Greenspace Plant Collection
We have 2 shade houses with a store of plants for indoors, entryways and verandas around offices.
We consider the plant maintenance service to be a collaborative service; we work together with the client to clarify and understand expectations.
Over time, we expand and refine our collection to match each client’s specific environment, ensuring a unique aesthetic for the office and a continuous stream of healthy plants.
Small or Desk-top Plants
Small pots (12-15cm pots) are visually appealing, whether displayed individually on a desk or grouped together to create a larger feature. They work well for highlighting specific spaces, though they do require more frequent watering due to their size. To make maintenance easier, we’ve selected resilient plant varieties that can stay looking fresh for a week or two between our visits.
Snake Plant
Medium Plants
Medium pots (20-25cm pots) are visually appealing, whether displayed individually on a desk or grouped together to create a larger feature. They work well for highlighting specific spaces, though they do require more frequent watering due to their size. To make maintenance easier, we’ve selected resilient plant varieties that can stay looking fresh for a week or two between our visits.
Syngonium
Boston Ferns
Aglaonema
Large Plants
Medium-sized plants (30-35 cm pots) are typically shade-tolerant shrubs or small trees, usually growing up to about 1.5 metres in height. They work really good as a feature plant and also lining corridors and large areas.
The Process
Many offices will request simple statement plants which will help create a good impression or increase employee wellbeing. Other businesses require a more specific selection of plants to create a tropical look or enhance an urban aesthetic for example. It can be a process to find out what would suit your space so it is worth engaging in the process so we can be sure we have the right selection for you.
1. Initial Site Visit
We begin with an on-site assessment to understand your space, lighting, and environmental conditions. This helps us determine which plants will thrive and how best to integrate greenery into your interior design.
We also like to hear your ideas for how you would like your space to look, particular plants that you were considering and any other design elements that you may have in mind. The plant gallery above shows what we have in stock at the moment and we can consider other plants that you may have in mind.
2. Plant Selection and Research
Based on our findings, we research plant availability and recommend suitable plant varieties.
3. Follow-Up Site Visit
We return to confirm placement details, refine selections, and discuss any adjustments to the proposed layout or maintenance needs before finalizing the plan.
4. Quotation and Project Plan
Once the design is approved, we provide a detailed quotation and project plan outlining plant choices, installation timelines, and maintenance schedules for a smooth, professional rollout.
Plant pots
Container pots
We pot up all our plants in plastic inner pots with drip trays. These can be displayed as they are or placed within a decorative cover pot. Our quotations for rental services will be based on these 3 pot sizes.
Pot sizes range from:
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Small 12.5-15cm diameter
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Medium 20-25cm diameter
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Large 30cm-35cm diameter
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Extra large 43-58cm diameter
As a general rule, in order to maintain balance the ratio of plant height to plant pot (or cover pot) is up to 2:1. So for example a 15 cm pot can have a plant up to 30 cm tall. However, larger pots will usually have taller plants.
This can give you an idea of how tall the different size pots and plants can be in your space.
Cover pots
Cover pots are the ornamental pots in which plants are placed.
In office environments it is not ideal to plant directly into these decorative pots because it affect how you water the plant and make its difficult to clean the area or change the plants.
We highly recommend that corporate clients source their own cover pots, that suit the interior design of their space. We then place our plants in appropriate pots to fit inside these cover pots.
At the moment, Greenspace Zambia, we only offer fabric pot covers.
Local Retail Suppliers
Cover pots can be found in certain local retailers, who may also be willing to source specific goods for corporate clients:
Local Crafts
Local artisans can create cover pots out of terracota, cement or even fabric and woven grass. Unfortunately many of these craftsment do not have a strong online presence so you may have to ask around to find them.
Regional Suppliers
For Commercial projects it may be necessary to import planters.
Take a look at these commercial planter manufacturers based in South Africa:
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