Short answer: individual plants start from $2 a week. Full (long term) indoor plant hire packages in Brisbane start from a $50 weekly minimum, which covers bespoke design, fortnightly maintenance and free plant replacements. Whereas event (short term) plant hire starts from a $650 minimum spend.
Now the longer answer, because the price you pay depends on what you are actually buying.
Pricing, plant by plant
Most plant hire quotes arrive as a single number with no working shown. Here is ours, broken down to the unit.
| What you’re hiring | Example | Weekly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Small desk plants | Aglaonema | $2–5 |
| Medium floor plants | Ficus Burgundy | $5–7 |
| Large floor planters | Kentia Palm | $7–10 |
| Planter clusters | Fiddle Leaf Fig, Peace Lily and Calathea grouped | $25 |
Every price includes the plant, the designer pot, the sealed liner, the ongoing care and the replacements. There is no separate line for any of it.
These rates are based on our standard designer pot range, which covers most commercial spaces. Custom fabrication, oversized planters and high-end specialty finishes sit above this, as they do with any hire company. If your brief calls for something specific, we will price it properly rather than talk you into a stock pot.
What $50 a week actually gets you
Our Sprout package starts at $50 a week. Depending on how you want to use it, that might look like:
- Seven large floor plants through a reception and breakout area, or
- 25 small desk plants across a floor of workstations, or
- Two designer planter clusters at an entry and a boardroom, or
- A mix: five large floor plants plus a few desk plants where they matter most.
Above that sit Blossom (from $100 a week, custom floor and desk planters, indoor or rooftop gardens) and Flourish (custom priced, multi-floor plantscapes, green walls and exterior gardens).
So why is your minimum higher than the other quote I have?
This is the fair question, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a sales one.
If you have a quote sitting at $25 or $30 a week, the difference is almost never the plants. It is what happens after they are delivered.
Fortnightly service is our floor, not our ceiling. A technician physically visits your site at least once a fortnight. That visit has a real cost: a paid horticulturist, a vehicle, fuel, time on site and time between sites. Below roughly $50 a week, that visit cannot be done properly. Something has to give, and what usually gives is frequency. Monthly service on a live plant in an air-conditioned office is not maintenance, it is triage.
Replacements are unlimited and free. If a plant fails, it gets swapped. That is priced in from day one. Cheaper contracts often carry replacement costs separately, which is where a $30 a week quote quietly becomes a $45 a week bill.
We buy for your space, not from our own catalogue. We are not tied to a proprietary pot or plant range, which means we can go to whichever grower or supplier has the right specimen. Sometimes that costs more than pulling from an in-house line, sometimes less. Either way the decision is made on what suits the space, not on what we happen to hold. It is also the reason our displays do not look like every other lobby in the city.
Design is done before anything is planted. Every quote follows a site visit and a bespoke design. Not a template applied to a floor plan.
Compliance is not an optional extra. CM3, SWMS and WHS compliance is standard across every site we service. For body corporate and commercial portfolios, this is not paperwork, it is the difference between a contractor who can be inducted onto your site and one who cannot.
Our technicians are employed, local and paid properly. We employ 100% Queenslanders across Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast. No subcontracted labour, no rotating faces in your building.
Put simply: the minimum is higher because the service underneath it is real. You are paying for someone to turn up, consistently, for the life of the contract.
What the maintenance actually covers
Every service visit includes:
- Watering, and monitoring moisture and pH levels
- Cleaning and polishing foliage
- Wiping down decorative containers
- Removing weeds, yellow leaves and unwanted growth
- Pruning and turning plants to hold size, shape and design intent
- Inspecting for pest and disease
- Regular fertilising
- Replenishing topdressing as needed
- Changing out any plant that starts to decline
A supervisor also inspects your installation periodically, independent of the regular service run.
The cost of doing it yourself
The comparison people rarely run. Here it is for a single 300mm indoor plant, over one year.
| Doing it yourself | Hiring from us | |
|---|---|---|
| 300mm indoor plant | $150 | $307 (annual hire) |
| Designer pot | $209 | Included |
| Sealed liner pot | $5 | Included |
| Mulch, fertiliser, leaf shine | $20 | Included |
| Pest and disease control | $20 | Included |
| Replacement plants | $150 | Included, unlimited |
| Maintenance and nursery logistics | Your time | Included |
| Annual total | $554 ($10.60/wk) | $307 ($5.90/wk) |
Buying is cheaper only in the first month. After that, the plant needs someone to look after it, and that someone is you.
What about short-term and event hire?
Different model, different pricing. Event plant hire in Brisbane starts from a $650 minimum spend and covers delivery, styling, installation and collection. Useful for conferences, launches, weddings, activations and functions. Long-term hire runs on an 18 month minimum term.
What makes Advance Plants different
We have been doing commercial indoor plant hire from Brisbane since 1982. Family owned, still independent.
- Independent, not a chain. No franchise, no national head office. We are based in Albion, five kilometres from the CBD.
- Flexible, not locked in. No proprietary pot or plant lines, so displays are designed for the space and matched to the budget.
- Scale with a personal touch. More than 45 staff across Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast. Big enough for multi-site commercial and body corporate portfolios, small enough that every display is genuinely bespoke.
- Interior and exterior under one roof. We are one of very few businesses that can look after both. One contractor, one point of contact, one set of compliance documents.
- Diversity at every level. Certified Great Place to Work, with women making up 67% of our leadership team, a genuine range of cultural backgrounds, ages and identities, and flexible working to support it.
- Community investment. We sponsor Indigenous education through Yalari and Bond University’s Indigenous scholarship program, and deliberately source the majority of our inputs from other local, family-owned businesses.
Common questions
Is there a minimum contract? Yes. Long-term corporate plant hire runs on a minimum 18 month term. Event hire has no term, just the $650 minimum spend.
What if a plant dies? We replace it, free, as many times as needed. It is included in every plan.
Can I hire just one or two plants? Individual plants start from $2 a week, but a full service package starts at the $50 weekly minimum. For very small spaces, talk to us about what makes sense.
Do you service outside Brisbane? Yes. Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast.
Are artificial plants an option? Yes, for low-light spaces and areas that cannot support live plants. Often used alongside live displays rather than instead of them.
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Every quote starts with a free site visit and a bespoke design. No obligation, no template.
