About the products

Futura Verde makes direct deliveries of plant material imported from Central America to its buyers all over the world, every week.

In addition to the standard assortment that includes such plants as Dracaena, Ficus, Schefflera, Codiaeum, Cycas, Phoenix and various palm species, the company's assortment exists of both small and large more exotic plants. Due in part to the developments and innovations in the "green" market in the Netherlands, as well as elsewhere in Europe and the rest of the world, the search for "something different, something new" has become an important task for the purchasers at Futura Verde.

Plants such as the large branched Cycas species and the many shapes and sizes of Ficus species trained into bonsai plants that come from such Far East countries as Vietnam, China and Taiwan, as well as Dicksonia antarctica, Macrozamia, Brachychiton rupestris, and Xanthorrhoea johnsonii from such countries as Australia and Tasmania, all remain very popular among Futura Verde's customers.

New technology being applied to air and sea transport means that the plants suffer less and less damage during their shipping, which can vary from a one-day transport up to a long journey of 5-6 weeks. This also means that more and more unique and exotic plants from faraway regions can be imported.

Plants from Australia, for example, are being shipped in open-top containers. The only overhead protection these 40-foot (12 metres) containers have is a sheet of canvas. The use of these containers simplifies the loading and unloading of large trees and plants and reduces the cost of transport. Their use is limited, however, to non-tropical plants that will not suffer any direct serious consequences to their well-being from increases or decreases in temperature. The "real" tropical and subtropical plants are still transported by airfreight and in temperature-controlled reefer containers.