New Baby Plants

Choosing a plant for a new baby

Easy-care, every time. The household you're sending to is running on interrupted sleep and has no spare attention for a plant with opinions, so pick foliage that tolerates lower light and a missed watering. Compact is better than large here too, because floor space is about to fill up with things that fold out, and a shelf or a bench is the safer home for it. The compact, forgiving end of our plant gifts range suits this best.

Baby shower plants

A baby shower gift that goes to the parents rather than the baby stands out in a pile of tiny clothes. A plant does that, and it's still doing it a year later. Same-day delivery makes the morning-of order possible, which is useful if the shower crept up on you. Order before 12pm on a weekday, or before 10am on Saturday.

Gender reveal and christening gifts

Both are occasions where the guest list brings a lot of the same thing. Greenery breaks that pattern and, in the case of a christening, tends to be the gift that's still in the house when the child is old enough to be told where it came from. Something upright and glossy photographs well on a table, if the day involves a table.

Delivering to a house with a newborn

Someone's almost always home, which helps. Our drivers head out in the early afternoon and homes are delivered by 6pm, so it lands well after the morning rather than first thing. If the house is quiet when we arrive, every order goes out with Authority to Leave and we'll leave it in a safe, shaded spot. Check the address on our Brisbane delivery areas page, and add a greeting card on the product page so the message is in your own words. For an older sibling's birthday in the same week, our birthday plants range covers that too.