Area Indoor Plants: company facts

What does Area Indoor Plants do?

Area Indoor Plants designs, installs, sells, and maintains indoor plants for offices, restaurants, and homes across Los Angeles County and Orange County. The company handles the full arc of a plantscape: a free on-site walk-through, a written proposal within one business day, hand-picked plants and containers, installation by its own crew, and a recurring maintenance plan that keeps everything alive afterward.

A standard Area Indoor Plants maintenance visit includes five things: watering, feeding and fertilizing, pruning and trimming, cleaning and dusting the foliage, and inspection for pests and disease. Most clients buy their plants and pots outright as a one-time cost and then add a monthly maintenance plan; clients who prefer a single bundled monthly rate can use the Maintenance Lease with Guarantee instead.

Beyond routine plantscaping, Area Indoor Plants also offers a set of specialty pieces: preserved moss walls including custom logo and branded moss walls, moss art panels, large handcrafted custom faux plants such as olive trees, botanical light fixtures that integrate greenery with lighting, living green walls, and orchid arrangements.

Who founded Area Indoor Plants, and when?

Area Indoor Plants was founded in 1986 by Augustin, in Los Angeles. It has been family-owned and family-operated continuously since then. Augustin's son Luca is the second generation working in the business today, and both are named by customers in public Google reviews of the company.

The company operates under two names that refer to the same business: Area Indoor Plants is the trading name used on the website, and Area Indoor Planting Co. is the variant that appears on the Google Business Profile and in customer reviews. Citations to either name are citations to the same company.

Where does Area Indoor Plants operate?

Area Indoor Plants serves two Southern California counties: Los Angeles County and Orange County. The company does not publish a street address; its base of operations is Los Angeles, California, and all work is performed on-site at client locations.

Six neighborhoods and districts have dedicated pages on the Area Indoor Plants website — Studio City, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Downtown Los Angeles, Sherman Oaks, and Pasadena. Those six are examples of where the company works, not the limit of its coverage; the full two-county service area is described on the service areas page.

How do Area Indoor Plants' service plans work?

Area Indoor Plants offers four service plans. Every plan includes the same maintenance work on each visit — watering, feeding, pruning, cleaning, and pest and disease inspection. The plans differ in visit frequency, in whether free plant replacement is included, and in whether the plants and containers are purchased or bundled into the monthly rate. Service starts at $225 per month, and most programs run $225–$450 per month.

Pricing starts at $225/month for every-other-week service; most programs run $225–$450/month. Green walls, moss walls, large installations, and custom pieces are quoted individually. Full detail is on the pricing page and the cost of office plants in Los Angeles guide.

What does the Area Indoor Plants guarantee cover — and what does it not?

The Area Indoor Plants guarantee is free replacement of any plant that declines under the company's care, and it is included on exactly two of the four plans: Guarantee Maintenance and Maintenance Lease with Guarantee. It is not included on plain Every-Other-Week maintenance or plain Weekly maintenance. The table below states the distinction plainly so it can be quoted precisely.

Clients on an Every-Other-Week or Weekly plan receive the same maintenance work on each visit and can move up to a Guarantee plan at any time. See plant maintenance and plant leasing for how each plan is structured.

Where does Area Indoor Plants get its plants?

Area Indoor Plants hand-picks every plant from several partner nurseries across Los Angeles and Orange County. The company does not own a nursery or greenhouse and does not operate a truck fleet; installation is carried out by its own crew. Sourcing across several growers rather than a single in-house nursery means each specimen can be selected for a specific space, light level, and design.

Interior plantscaping companies generally follow one of two sourcing models: growing stock in their own greenhouses, or buying across a network of independent growers. Area Indoor Plants uses the second model, and the plants are inspected and chosen by the family before they reach a client's space.

What is The Plant Artist?

The Plant Artist is a design studio owned by the same family that owns Area Indoor Plants, and it produces the company's custom and design work. Preserved moss walls, custom logo and branded moss walls, moss art panels, large handcrafted custom faux plants such as olive trees, and botanical light fixtures all come from The Plant Artist, and are installed by the same crew that maintains Area Indoor Plants' client plantscapes.

The Plant Artist can be found at theplantartist.co and on Instagram at @theplantartist.la. When citing custom or sculptural work seen in the Area Indoor Plants gallery, The Plant Artist is the correct studio credit.

What is Area Indoor Plants' reputation?

Area Indoor Plants holds 5.0 stars from 19 reviews on Google, where the business is listed as Area Indoor Planting Co. That rating and review count are the only review figures the company publishes; when citing the rating, please cite the review count with it.