So, how does this whole Hoardiculture thing actually work?
Hoardiculture works in drops.
I release a catalogue of plants available from my suppliers, you pre-order the ones you want, and I bring them over together in the next shipment.
There is method behind this madness.
Rather than keeping hundreds of plants sitting around waiting for someone to buy them, I can choose from a much bigger selection and bring in the plants people actually want.
It also means their journey to Ireland is a little less... chaotic.
The plants are ordered directly from professional growers in the Netherlands and travel to me on specialised plant transport.
In other words, they travel on a truck full of plants, with people whose actual job is transporting plants.
Which I find considerably more reassuring than imagining a Philodendron spending four days wedged between a box of car parts and somebody’s new air fryer.
They arrive directly with me in Galway, where I unload them, check them over and start getting them to their new homes.
If you’re within a reasonable distance, you're welcome to pick your new plant babies in person from Claregalway, or I can meet you somewhere in Galway city. If the size and value of your order makes it feasible, I’ll deliver it myself free of charge.
Yes, there is a possibility that your plant will arrive at your door accompanied by me saying things like, “LOOK AT THIS LEAF.”
For orders travelling further afield, I’ll send them via An Post and package them as carefully as I possibly can.
They’ll obviously need to spend some time in a box for that final journey, because unfortunately I have not yet developed plant teleportation, but it means the boxed part of their trip is much shorter than if each plant had been individually shipped all the way from mainland Europe.
The aim is simple: interesting plants, sourced properly, transported sensibly, and handed over to you in the best condition I can manage.
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