Swanson’s has been around for nearly a century—since 1924—and is a Seattle institution. Because it has a massive campus, there’s so much selection here, from giant trees to little air plants. Its selection of pots and other decor is also choice. The nursery also offers multiple classes (and even support over Instagram with a hashtag).

This design-minded Ballard shop specializes in tropicals, succulents, and nontraditional plants—like marimo and epiphytes—and has detailed care information on its website.

Ravenna Gardens packs both indoor and outdoor plants into a relatively small (at least, for a full-fledged garden store), greenhouse-like space in University Village—a welcome respite from the vibe of the rest of the mall. It also has a wide selection of cute and offbeat pots.

Sad news: This longtime garden store is closing because there’s a planned development on the site, and the actual date of its shuttering keeps changing. In the meantime, though, stock up on your soils, pottery, plants, and home goods at least through the end of 2019. After, you can visit the garden section of their mercantile up in the north end.

Based in lower Queen Anne (or Uptown, if that’s your thing), Cultivate Propagate specializes in rare and otherwise unique plants, some of which are sold online. If you can’t decide what to get, the staff provides interior plant consultations, too.

Yes, it’s mostly a flower shop, but South Lake Union’s Verde & Co also sells little gift-size houseplants—and even has terrarium classes.

In Capitol Hill’s Melrose Market, this high-design boutique shop is perhaps half plants—mostly little baby ones, but with some that make more of a statement, too. You can pick up some handmade pots, home goods, small-label clothing while you’re at it.

Like Verde & Co, Young’s started out as primarily a flower shop. Now, it’s as much a succulent shop as it is a florist, with some other common houseplants thrown in. The staff can even arrange your purchases into a pot for you.

This little feed store and nursery in Beacon Hill is fully equipped for not just outdoor homesteads, but fully indoor operations, with a great selection of houseplants (and pretty pottery to go with them!) and pet supplies alike. From that perspective, your apartment’s kind of like a farm, right? Keep an eye out for the adorable shop cats that live here, too.

Right on the southern border of Seattle near White Center, this well-curated little shop has a knowledgeable staff and plants for beginners and well-versed horticulturalists alike. Its series of classes are aimed at the indoor gardener, from terrarium-building to winter houseplant keeping.

Urban Sprouts perhaps stands out from other area nurseries and plant shops with its plant subscription services—but you can head down to the Renton shop for its large selection of houseplants and adorable ceramics.