Buy a plant from someone who grows them
A marketplace of independent nurseries and makers, sitting inside the app that already knows your plants. Buy something here and it doesn’t arrive as a mystery — it lands in your garden with its care already worked out.
Worldwide. Each shop sets its own delivery times and shipping, and says where it ships to.
The shop’s listing and the plant’s care are the same record
Everywhere else, buying a plant and looking after it are two unrelated events — a receipt in one app, a guess in another. Here a listing is attached to the catalogue entry the app already cares from, so the two halves fit.
The purchase
- What you bought
- Which shop sent it
- When it arrived
The care record
- How often it drinks
- The light it needs
- Whether it's safe for the cat
- It appears in your garden the moment it's delivered — you don't add it by hand.
- Its watering schedule starts from the day it arrived, not the day you got round to it.
- Herb can answer about it immediately, from the same record the shop listed it against.
A basket from two shops becomes two parcels, not one mess
One payment, one parcel per shop
A basket that spans two nurseries doesn't become one impossible package. It splits into an order for each shop — each with its own tracking — off a single payment. You pay once; they pack separately, because they're separate businesses.
Stock and price are re-checked as you pay
What your basket remembers is treated as a hint, not the truth. At the moment of payment every line is re-read from the live listing, so a plant that sold out an hour ago fails then — not after your money has moved.
Delivery belongs to the shop
Each shop sets its own delivery times, shipping cost and the countries it ships to, and it's shown before you commit. We don't quote a delivery promise a grower didn't make.
The second carton is Shop B’s, with the other two items — packed and tracked on its own.
One payment in, and it’s obvious where each part went
Marketplaces are usually vague about this until you’re already selling. Here is the whole shape of it.
The shop
The large majorityThe grower keeps the bulk of what you pay. They set their prices with the commission already visible to them, so nothing is deducted that they hadn't agreed to.
LeafRanger
A published commissionA percentage of the item total, stated in the vendor terms before a shop lists anything. It's the same for every shop of the same standing, and it doesn't change per order.
Payments and tax
Passed throughCard processing and any tax due are handled separately from the commission, and neither of us keeps them. Shipping goes to whoever is actually doing the shipping.
We’re not printing a commission figure on a marketing page before a single shop has signed. It will be in the vendor terms, in writing, before anyone lists a plant — and a number you can hold us to is worth more than one we chose because it looked good here.
We’d rather tell you who’s responsible than pretend it’s all us
The shop is a real, independent business — it grew the plant and it posts the parcel. Hiding that behind a faceless “marketplace” helps nobody the day a box arrives crushed. So here is the line, drawn plainly.
The shop is responsible for
- Describing the plant honestly, including its size and condition
- Packing it so it survives the journey
- The delivery time and shipping cost they published
- Answering you when something goes wrong with their order
We’re responsible for
- Taking the payment and passing the shop its share
- Keeping the catalogue the listing is attached to accurate
- Watching for shops that keep failing the above
- Acting on them — and removing them if it continues
Selling here is four states and no mystery
An order moves through the same four stations for every shop, and you always know which one it’s at. No hidden queue, no “processing” that means nothing.
Placed
the order exists
Paid
money taken, stock held
Shipped
the shop has posted it
Delivered
it's in the buyer's garden
Getting on the belt in the first place
You apply, with your shop details and what you sell.
If something's missing we ask for it, rather than rejecting you outright.
You can list. Identity checks sit alongside this, marked verified or still pending.
We’re not open for applications yet. When we are, this is the process — and there’s no listing fee for joining.
Six rules, and none of them are about us
These are the terms a shop accepts before it lists anything. They exist because a plant is alive when it’s posted and a photograph is easy to flatter.
List the plant you're actually sending
Size, form and condition as they are — not as the best specimen in the greenhouse.
Name it correctly
Listings attach to a catalogue record. A wrong name means wrong care advice reaching the buyer.
Publish real delivery times
The window you show is the one you're held to. Say where you ship, and where you don't.
Say when you can't
Out of stock, out of season, or too fragile to post in a heatwave — say so and cancel it.
No treated plants sold as untreated
If it's been sprayed, the buyer with a cat or a curious toddler needs to know.
Answer your buyers
Silence is the complaint we act on fastest, because it's the one the buyer can't resolve alone.
We’d rather have fewer shops that keep to these than a bigger catalogue that doesn’t.
The questions a careful buyer asks first
- Who am I actually buying from?
- An independent shop — a nursery, a grower or a maker — not from LeafRanger. They set the price, they pack the plant and they post it. We run the marketplace, take the payment and hold them to the standards they agreed to.
- What does it cost a shop to sell here?
- A commission on the item total, published in the vendor terms before anyone lists anything, plus the usual payment processing. There's no fee to join and no monthly charge. We're not printing the percentage on a marketing page before the first shop has signed — it'll be in writing in the terms.
- What happens if I order from two different shops at once?
- You pay once, and it becomes a separate order for each shop, each with its own tracking. They're separate businesses in different places — pretending one parcel could contain both would only make the delivery estimate a lie.
- Can a plant sell out while it's in my basket?
- Yes, and we'd rather you found out then than afterwards. Every line is re-checked against the live listing at the moment you pay, so a sold-out plant fails at checkout rather than being taken and refunded later.
- Who decides delivery times and shipping costs?
- The shop does, and both are shown before you commit, along with the countries it ships to. We won't quote a delivery promise a grower didn't make.
- What if the plant arrives damaged or isn't what was listed?
- Take it up with the shop first — they packed it and they can put it right fastest. If a shop keeps failing at that, that's our problem, not yours: repeated offences get a warning and then suspension.
- Does buying here do anything the app can use?
- Yes, and it's the main reason to. A listing is attached to the same catalogue record the app cares from, so a plant bought here arrives in your garden already identified, with its watering schedule and pet-safety information already in place.
- Is the marketplace open yet?
- No. Nothing has launched and there are no shops trading — everything on this page describes how it works, not how it's going. We'd rather show you the mechanics now than a fake shopfront.
Open soonPlants from peoplewho grow them
Get the app now and your garden is set up long before the first shop opens — so when it does, everything you buy lands somewhere that already knows how to look after it.