Pink and cream centres fading out to green margins
Pink and cream flood the centre of each broad leaf and fade through soft green at the margins, so no two leaves read quite the same. It puts that colour into a spot that never sees direct sun.
Broad patterned leaves that hold their colour in low light, hand delivered same day in Brisbane
Pink and cream centres fading out to green margins
Pink and cream flood the centre of each broad leaf and fade through soft green at the margins, so no two leaves read quite the same. It puts that colour into a spot that never sees direct sun.
Broad green leaves, pale wash running to the edge
Wide, softly pointed leaves in deep green, each one lightened by a pale wash that spreads out from the midrib and catches right at the edge. It keeps that pattern in a corner where most patterned foliage gives up and turns plain.
We deliver two Chinese evergreens, and the choice comes down to how much pattern you want in the room.
Both come to you at 200mm, the larger end of what we carry, so either one lands as a plant with presence rather than something for a windowsill.
An aglaonema is the answer to a room that defeats other plants. Offices with nothing but overhead light, hallways, stairwells, and the south-facing rooms that never get a direct hour of sun. At 200mm it's substantial enough to stand on the floor or fill a reception desk, which makes it a good call for the occasions where a larger plant is what's expected.
That covers most of what people send it for. It works as a sympathy plant because it asks almost nothing of the person receiving it and stays in the room for years. It works as a thank you plant when a card alone isn't enough. And it's one of the steadiest options for corporate plant gifts, because an office is exactly the light it copes with best.
Yes. Aglaonema sits in the Araceae family and its sap carries calcium oxalate crystals, which sting. A cat or a dog that chews a leaf can end up drooling, pawing at its mouth and off its food for a while. It's rarely serious, but it's a reason to send something else to a home where the animals treat foliage as a snack.
Two straight swaps, both non-toxic to cats and dogs. Calathea keeps the patterned leaves and the tolerance for a dim room, with purple undersides instead of silver and cream. Peperomia obtusifolia is the smaller, thicker-leaved one, closer to succulent in feel and very hard to kill. Which plant suits the household is your call, so ask first if you don't know the place well.
This is the reason to choose an aglaonema over anything else we deliver. Most foliage plants that tolerate low light survive it rather than enjoy it: a philodendron stretches towards the nearest window and the gaps between its leaves get longer, and a peace lily quietly stops flowering. An aglaonema holds its shape and keeps its pattern. Put one three or four metres back from a window, or in a room lit by fluorescents from nine to five, and it carries on looking like the plant you sent.
It has a limit. No plant photosynthesises in the dark, so a room with no natural light at all and no lights left on will eventually thin it out. Deep shade is fine. A cupboard isn't.
Low to medium indirect light, and no direct sun, which scorches the pale sections of the leaf first. Let the top few centimetres of soil dry before you water again, and ease off over winter. Keep it warm and out of draughts, because anything under about 15 degrees sets it back, and an air conditioner blowing straight at it does the same. Wipe the leaves now and then. They're broad enough to collect dust, and dust is light the plant doesn't get.
Usually too much water, sometimes cold. Check the soil first: if it's still damp a few centimetres down, leave it longer between watering and make sure the pot is draining rather than sitting in a saucer of water. If the soil is fine, look at where the plant sits. A cold draught, an open window in July or a vent blowing on it will yellow the lower leaves the same way.
No, and that's the point of it. An aglaonema does well several metres from a window, or in an office lit only from the ceiling. It just needs some light for part of the day. What it can't take is the opposite problem, a bare window with sun coming straight in, which bleaches the silver and cream out of the leaves.
Here's the short version of what the genus wants and where it comes from.
Choose a pot on the product page before you check out, along with any giftware or a greeting card. Our indoor plant pots range covers the sizes an aglaonema comes in, and a 200mm plant is big enough that the pot does a lot of the work. The card message is one you write yourself at checkout.
Order before 12pm on a weekday, or before 10am on Saturday, and your aglaonema goes out the same day. Our own couriers start their run in the early afternoon, and we aim to have homes delivered by 6pm and business addresses by 5pm, Monday to Saturday. Delivery is a flat $19.95 and there's no Sunday run. Check the address against the suburbs on our Brisbane delivery areas page before you order. We run the inner east through to the bayside and the Redlands, so an aglaonema can land in Coorparoo, Camp Hill or Morningside on the same day you order it.
Delivered by our own couriers
Flat $19.95 delivery
Gift wrapped as standard
Same day before 12pm
