Workshops
Propagation, repotting, kokedama. Small groups, soil under everyone's nails.
Houseplants that suit your light, not our margins. Honest care advice, weekend workshops, and plant-sitting for when you finally take that holiday.
Tell us which way your windows face and how often you forget things. We'll send you home with plants that will actually survive you — and say so honestly when one won't.
Bring your struggling plant. Free look, honest diagnosis, no judgment about the crispy bits.
Propagation, repotting, kokedama. Small groups, soil under everyone's nails.
Drop them off watered, pick them up thriving. Photo updates included, obviously.
Within the district, same week, pot and all.
Solarium opened in 1974 as a florist's, survived three decades as a fax-machine repair shop, and reopened in 2022 when Nina inherited the keys and filled the windows with monsteras. The terrazzo floor is original. So is the till.
Come in for a plant, stay for the argument about whether fenestration is earned or given.
"Nina talked me out of buying a fiddle-leaf fig. Sold me a zz plant instead. Eighteen months later, both of us are alive."
— Ola, north-facing windows
"They plant-sat my collection for three weeks and my calathea came back less dramatic than when I left it. Witchcraft."
— Marcin, 34 pots and counting
One letter a month: what's new in the shop, which workshop has seats, and one genuinely useful care tip per season.
No spam. Occasional pictures of the shop dog among the ferns.
With honesty, which you've already done. Come in, tell us your light and your habits — there's a plant for "waters things monthly, remembers them fondly."
Yes. Repotting costs the price of the soil plus your plant's new pot, wherever the plant came from.
Book a shelf, drop your plants off watered, and collect them when you're back. Priced per shelf per week — collections over twenty pots get their own corner and a discount.