Plants to grow and sell at work?

morg_monster · 25 March 2010 at 7:51PM

Hi
Hoping to pick your collective green brains!
Myself and a friend are having a cake sale at work to raise some funds for our Brownie pack. I was thinking that we could also sell some plants- we work in central london and there's nowhere around that sells plants to brighten up our offices, and since virtually everyone comes in by tube/train, bringing them in from home isn't very practical either. Of course these facts also mean it's tricky to grow plants from seed also, but there's a Dyas nearby and I'm willing to give it a try to raise some cash! So do you have any ideas of what I could grow; I guess from seed but poss from cuttings too. They should fulfil these criteria:
-be easy to care for / will cope with office life OR could be a bit more tricky but make up for it by being very pretty!
-won't need potting on too often, I don't wanna see all the plants in the bin in 6m time when they've outgrown their pot!
-will germinate / grow decently on a sunny windowsill in my office by June when the sale will prob be
-won't cost me too much to get started off
-ideally could be sown straight in a 4" pot so I don't have to deal with toomuch transplanting in the office! The cleaners would kill me!

So far the only thing I have thought of is to plant up the babies from my spider plant... I thought herbs might work ok, people might want some basil to add to their salad in the summer! But I'm only a newbie to this greenfingered stuff! Is there anything else that would fit the bill? Thanks!

gillian62 · 25 March 2010 at 8:00PM

Spider plants are a great idea, they are supposed to be really good for the office, and we have lots at work.

Barneysmom · 25 March 2010 at 8:02PM

Fuchsia, dead easy to frow and very pretty.

angelavdavis · 25 March 2010 at 8:50PM

What about something like chilli plants? We used to grow them in our office and they did really well. Cheap to start too but you will need a warm window sill to get them started.