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New this month: anthuriums, crotons, and photographs that show the plant
Nine new indoor varieties on the benches, and a change to how we photograph everything.
By Muhammad Salman
Nine new varieties went onto the site this week, most of them flowering or coloured-foliage indoor plants — the part of the range we have been thinnest on.
We have also changed how we photograph new stock, which needs a word of explanation.
What is new
All nine are in stock now and all are studio-photographed.
- Anthurium in red, white and purple — blooms that hold for six to eight weeks.
- Croton Gold Dust — dark leaves flecked with bright yellow.
- Cordyline Calypso Queen — the darkest indoor foliage we grow.
- Polka dot plant, sold as a mixed pink, white and crimson pot.
- Elephant bush — pet-safe, edible, and the best succulent bonsai subject.
- String of hearts — silver-marbled hearts on threads that reach two metres.
- A syngonium variety pack, every plant a different cultivar.
Why the photographs look different
Our bench photography is honest — it shows the plant where it actually grows, next to the other plants on the bench, in daylight. It is also busy, and at thumbnail size on a phone it can be hard to see what you are actually buying.
New stock is now shot against a plain background so the plant itself is legible in a grid. The plants are the same plants, from the same benches. Nothing has been staged beyond the backdrop.
And a note on our older photographs
We are not replacing the existing catalogue photography. It is real, it shows real stock at real sizes, and there is a case that it is more useful than a studio shot precisely because it is unflattering.
Where a listing shows a specimen tree we do not hold in single units — the large palms, for instance — the page says plainly that the photograph shows the species rather than the individual tree, and we send photographs of your actual tree before dispatch.
