Offshoot

Grown from cuttings · swap shelf by the door · repotting while you wait

Most of these plants started as a cutting in our back room.

Offshoot is one window wide. We sell what we've grown on ourselves, we'll repot what you bring in, and the shelf by the door is free: leave a cutting, take a cutting.

What's on the shelf this week
Potted plants on wooden stools and shelves in a sunlit shop window.

On the shelf this week

Six of about forty. Prices go by pot size, because that's roughly how long we've been looking after it.

A bright shop with trailing plants, tall cacti and rows of clay pots on wooden benches.

Pothos, three kinds

The plant we'd give anyone who says they kill everything. Grows in a dark hallway, forgives a missed fortnight.

Rooted cutting£4 12 cm pot£9 Hanging, 17 cm£22
Big split monstera leaves and palms crowded together under a glass roof.

Monstera

From a mother plant that's older than the shop. Every one of these was a single leaf and a node in a jar.

Leaf and node£8 15 cm pot£18 Floor plant£45
Houseplants on a bright windowsill, a variegated cutting rooting in a glass vase.

Rubber plant

Burgundy and the cream variegated one. Likes the window, dislikes being moved, will sulk for a week if you do.

Rooted cutting£6 14 cm pot£16 Variegated, 14 cm£24
A single sprig of round grey-green leaves in a small glass jar of water against white.

Eucalyptus, cut

Not a houseplant, honestly. Cut stems from the yard for a jar on the table; they last about three weeks and smell of it.

Three stems£5 A bunch£12 Dried, hanging£8
A single glossy split leaf standing in a green glass bottle.

A leaf in a bottle

Our best seller, which is slightly embarrassing: one leaf, one bottle, and roots you can watch appear in about four weeks.

Leaf and bottle£10 Your own bottle£7 Three, mixed£24
Small succulent cuttings growing in clear cups of gritty compost.

Succulent babies

Pups from the big jade and the echeverias, in cups. Put them somewhere bright and forget about them until spring.

One cup£2.50 Tray of six£12 Clay pot to go in£3

The swap shelf

By the door, free, open whenever we are. It works because almost everybody leaves more than they take.

Leave one, take one
Or leave three and take none. Nobody counts. We only ask that you don't take the whole shelf on a Saturday morning.
Label it
There are lolly sticks and a pencil in the jar. What it is, and one line on how you kept it alive.
Rooted or not
Both are fine. Unrooted cuttings go in water on the lower shelf, rooted ones in the cups of compost on top.
No pests, please
Look under the leaves before you bring it in. One plant with thrips can empty the shelf in a week.
Nothing for sale
The swap shelf is the one place in the shop where nothing has a price, and we'd like to keep it that way.
Swap evening
Last Thursday of the month, six till eight. Bring a whole plant if you're moving house, and a cup of tea is on us.

About half the plants in the shop were once on this shelf. Some of the best ones came in labelled "no idea, my nan's".

A long glasshouse aisle lined with ferns and foliage plants on benches, a brick path down the middle.
Glass test tubes of cuttings hanging from a wooden rail in front of lush green leaves.

The repotting bench

Bring the plant, we bring the compost, the pot and the mess. Usually ten minutes while you look around.

  1. Bring it in its old pot. Watered the day before, not the same morning.
  2. We look at the roots and tell you honestly whether it needs a bigger pot or just fresh soil.
  3. You pay for the pot and the soil, at shop price. The labour is free.
  4. Leave it alone for a week. Out of direct sun, no feeding, a little water.

Floor plants over a metre: bring them on a weekday morning and ring first, so there's space on the bench.

Saturday morning classes

Six people round the big table, an hour and a half, and you take home whatever you made.

Taking cuttings, and why they die£18

Repotting without panic£18

A jar terrarium£32

Plants for a room with no sun£18

Children, with a grown-up£10

People at a long wooden table in a plant-filled shop, one writing, air plants on the counter.
Variegated green and cream leaves in a glass of water against a deep green background.

Where the plants come from

About two thirds from our own cuttings in the back room, under two lights and a humidifier that sounds like a kettle. The rest from one nursery in the next county, because there are some things we can't grow in a back room.

Nothing is flown in. When something is out of season, it's out of stock, and we'll tell you when the next cuttings will be ready.

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