Have you ever doubted whether the do a good idea is to a large houseplant online at order? Perhaps ask you your wonder how such a vulnerable, high plant undamaged at you home can arrive. Still succeed specialized web shops er already for years in to also the largest plants safe to send. At this blog read your how that possible is.
Additional attention for large plants
Large houseplants, such as a adult Strelitzia nicolai, a hefty Monstera deliciosa (variegata) or a meter-high Ficus lyrata, questions at a careful approach. The jar is heavy, the plant often top-heavy and the whole fragile to toppling or damage during transportation. That's why are at the ready to ship making from this type plants additional steps taken.
Custom packaging
The first step is a solid box on custom. Large plants are usually not in standard boxes shipped, but in special at custom made packaging. This cardboard boxes its extra high and often provided from handles, so that they properly to lift are. Inside ensure clever constructions for stability, such as:
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Fix of the pot with straps or clips, so that he not can slide.
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Padding with cardboard around the pot and between the leaves, so the plant tight in the box state.
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Support to the trunk or stem, e.g. with bamboo canes or additional cardboard, to fall over to prevent.
Protection of leaf and buds
The leaf from large plants is often a of the most vulnerable parts. Therefore is the leaf from some types light tied together or protected with breathable paper. The top of the box remains often something open or is additional high made, so that there no pressure at the leaf tips comes. At very large plants is sometimes chosen for open transport (for example at a cart or pallet), where the plant not in a box is but loose and properly secured is transported.
Specialized transport
Extremely large plants are almost never with ordinary parcel services shipped. At place Instead work webshops often together with specialized plant transporters. These carriers are used to to with live products at work and keep account with:
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Upright transport (no tipping boxes)
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Temperature control, especially at frost or heat
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Limited transport time, so the plant not too long en route is
Sometimes is a large plant even with a separate delivery service to home brought, just as furniture.
At Claessen Orchids and Plants, plants are put into the largest possible size box for regular shipping - with enough protection to keep shipping costs as low as possible for you, the customer. Moreover, rough transport is taken into account, so the plant is always well protected against transport damage.
What you as customer can do
As you a large houseplant orders, its there a some things that you yourself can do to the transport still smoother to laten expire:
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Care that your home are at the agreed delivery day, so that the plant not unnecessarily long in transit is.
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Create space at the front door to the plant indoors to put.
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Remove carefully all protective materials as soon as the plant indoors is, so he can get used to his new environment.
To finally
A large houseplant online order is so safer than your perhaps think. Thanks to sturdy custom packaging, specialized carriers and careful treatment en route can even the greatest plants without damage at your home arrive. Thus need you no trailer to arrange or to lug with heavy pots - and get you just a eye-catcher from size to the deur delivered.
Will you to know which major plants good to send its or where your at must watch out at the choosing? Take feel free to once a take a look at specialized web shops such as Claessen Orchids and Plants - there find you often a separate category for large houseplants with clear shipping information.
