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Office Plant Rentals and Leasing

Aesthetic Plant Design has been providing flowering plants, trees, and foliage to company offices, hotels, restaurants, retirement centers, atriums, lobbies, retail stores, and other commercial spaces since 1983.

In our full-service lease-and-maintenance plan, we:

  • Design a flowering-plant and accompanying foliage package to meet your particular budget.  We are aware of your budget constraints!
  • Provide a steady, reliable weekly maintenance plan, arriving at your office at the same time every week.

Our full-service plan is fully guaranteed against any plant that fails or is infested by pests.

We are covered by commercial general liability insurance for your peace of mind.

We can provide a variety of other services to meet your needs, including "take-over maintenance" of your existing plants and the one-time sales of plants and containers.  Not only do we provide interior and exterior plant service, but we work with your environment and budget to develop an overall interior plant design. For full details on all our plans, see our  Services page.

Holiday Plants and Decorations

We also delight in providing Holiday arrangements for the end-of-year season.  For a full description of our service and to see pictures of some of the many types of trees and foliage we can provide, see our Holiday Decorations page for details.

 

threebrownpotsF.jpgServing San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties

Our service area includes:

  • San Francisco county (including South San Francisco, San Bruno, Millbrae, Brisbane, Burlingame, San Mateo, San Carlos, Redwood City, Foster City, and Hillsborough)
  • Alameda county (Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Alameda, Pleasanton, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Hayward, Castro Valley)
  • Contra Costa county (San Ramon, Orinda, Lafayette, Moraga, Walnut Creek, Concord, San Pablo, Richmond, El Cerrito).

For a free estimate and on-site consultation, call us at:

(925) 284-7612

Plants can help clean the air in your office!

If the quality of the air in your office or commercial space is poor, then the liberal use of plants may be of help.  While researching various methods of cleaning the air in space vehicles for extended periods of time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) found in several different studies that many common plants help fight indoor pollution: They are reportedly able to partially remove harmful substances out of the air through normal photosynthesis.

Newer buildings are constructed largely with man-made building materials and are furnished with synthetic carpeting and other materials known to "off-gas" pollutants such as benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene into the interior environment.  These newer buildings are also insulated and sealed tightly to conserve energy. Thus, pollutants may be trapped indoors, resulting in "sick building syndrome."  If your office is old enough to be leaky and drafty, you may not need to worry about this.  But if you work in a newer, energy-efficient office with windows tightly sealed, or where the air feels stale and circulation seems poor, the liberal use of plants may be able to make a dent in the problem.  (Note that high concentrations of pollutants would also require the use of activated-carbon filters.)

Most of the plants NASA has studied (listed below) evolved in forests, where they received mostly filtered light.  Because of this, they can photosynthesize efficiently under relatively low light conditions.  The plants NASA tested that are readily available are:

Ficus benjamina
  Ficus benjamina
(Weeping fig)
 
  • Hedera helix   English ivy
  • Chlorophytum comosum   spider plant
  • Epipiremnum aureum   golden pothos
  • Spathiphyllum `Mauna Loa'    peace lily
  • Aglaonema modestum   Chinese evergreen
  • Chamaedorea sefritzii   bamboo or reed palm
  • Sansevieria trifasciata    snake plant
  • Philodendron scandens `oxycardium'   heartleaf philodendron
  • Philodendron selloum   selloum philodendron
  • Philodendron domesticum    elephant ear philodendron
  • Dracaena marginata   red-edged dracaena
  • Dracaena fragrans `Massangeana'   cornstalk dracaena
  • Dracaena deremensis `Janet Craig'   Janet Craig dracaena
  • Dracaena deremensis `Warneckii'   Warneck dracaena
  • Ficus benjamina  weeping fig

As a guideline, one NASA study recommended using about 15 plants in 6 to 8-inch containers to improve the air quality in a 1,800 square foot area.  Similarly, a 450 square-foot office would need about 4 such plants.  Since most of these are non-flowering, you may also prefer some flowering plants in addition.   If air quality is a problem for you, we may be able to help mitigate the problem. 

(Information mainly derived from Interior landscape plants for indoor pollution abatement, Wolverton, Johnson, Bounds,  September 1989, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, John C. Stennis Space Center.)

Serving San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties

Our service area includes:
  • San Francisco county (including South San Francisco, San Bruno, Millbrae, Brisbane, Burlingame, San Mateo, San Carlos, Redwood City, Foster City, and Hillsborough)
  • Alameda county (Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Alameda, Pleasanton, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Hayward, Castro Valley)
  • Contra Costa county (San Ramon, Orinda, Lafayette, Moraga, Walnut Creek, Concord, San Pablo, Richmond, El Cerrito).