The coolest office plants

This is a bit of a subjective post, so to make sure you don’t just land up with my opinion, I’ve collaborated with a few colleagues on this topic!

I’m going to start off with a couple of my personal favourites.  First of all, a disclaimer, I’m a massive fern-lover, so my top pick is the

This fern is so beautiful and delicate; sitting on my windowsill, it nicely frames my view of London skyscrapers, and the leaves gently flutter in the breeze. That having been said, the draught isn’t the best for this little fella as it dries out the needles, so they’re best kept out of draughts.

This isn't your standard Prayer Plant; the Calathea orbifolia has beautiful rounded leaves instead of the more oblong shaped leaves of a classic Calathea. It has amazingly perfect stripes that are slightly hypnotic! These Calatheas are full, neat plants that are great for clustering around the base of taller plants. I love them as they're so mesmerising to look at.

This is another personal favourite; it was the first plant I was given when I started at Plant Plan. The little lad started out with it’s trailing leaves only just touching my desk, now it reaches the floor! If you want something you can watch changing daily, growing and twisting, then this will be a fun option.

Moving on to Sam's favourites! Sam is one of our most experienced designers, so he's seen his fair share of interesting plants. He's also seen things come in and go out of fashion, so he's well placed to give advice on the coolest office plants.

Alocasia calidora have a lovely appearance, they’re very strong in form, have giant leaves and are very present. Interestingly, they are used throughout the Amazon Biosphere project in Seattle.

I love the beautiful long trails and thick glossy leaves of the Wax Plant, they're very cool and make a change from some of the more commonly used trailing plants.

For one, not many people have a Quince Tree in their office, so that makes it cool by default, but they’re also very beautiful in form and structure, and have lovely soft foliage.

Next up is Amy, our resident hippy and plant fanatic. Amy's travelled the world dealing with plants, so it takes something quite impressive to make her 'cool list'.

Amy loves an Aralia Fabian as they have an unusual shape, they smell her like grandma's (apparently), and they can tolerate low light which makes them good for keeping in an office.