PILF
PILF
Take it. It’s allowed.

You didn’t come here looking for a plant. There’s one on the shelf, it’s been fine there for weeks, and it’s for sale.

How it works
01
Scan the tag.
Or type the short address printed under it.
02
Pay on your phone.
One flat price, tax included. No account, no app.
03
Show the receipt to whoever’s behind the counter.
They’ve seen it before.
04
Take the plant.
Pot and all. What to do when you get it home.

Checkout opens with the first public shelves, the week of October 12. The longer version.

The shelf

Eight plants. Every one a Grade A or B.

Grade is how much neglect a plant forgives — A is hard to kill on purpose. Light is the room it needs, from 1 (no window at all) to 5 (sun on the leaves). Nothing here is rare, difficult or precious, and six of the eight are fine in a room with barely any window.

Golden Pothos $16 Grade ALight 2Any room with a window. Not in the sun. Heartleaf Philodendron $16 Grade ALight 2Happy across the room from a window. Marble Queen Pothos $22 Grade ALight 3Window light. Never direct sun. Spider Plant $16 Grade ALight 3Near a window, out of the sun. Peperomia $20 Grade BLight 3A few feet from a window. Snake Plant $25 Grade ALight 1A dark corner is genuinely fine. ZZ Plant $32 Grade ALight 1No window? This is the one. Hoya $29 Grade BLight 4Beside a bright window. It wants light to flower.
Which one fits your room?
Proof, not adjectives

Whatever you’re worried you’d do to a plant, the shelf has already done to it. Every tag carries the date it went up, in pen:

Surviving Thriving on this shelf
since June 14.

You can keep this plant alive, because it’s been alive there — under those lights, and nobody in that room waters it.

The lists
Grade A. Start here. Light 1. Rooms with no window. Won’t hate your cat. Fine alone for two weeks. Things that vine. You killed a C. Try this.

Including plants PILF doesn’t sell. The point is that you keep one alive.

For a café, a clinic, a bookstore

Plants in your room, at no cost to you.

PILF installs the plants, keeps them alive, and sells them to your customers off your shelf. You do nothing. The whole arrangement, including the boring parts.