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Seven UK plant shops, one table.

Live prices and stock across plants, hardscape and filtration, matched item by item — so you can see who has what, and the cheapest way to buy it, postage included.

  • 1,009plants
  • 642hardscape
  • 727filtration
  • 8shops

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Plant Aqua Ess. Aq. Gardens Cloud Aqua Horizon Pro Shrimp Dennerle Aq. Express

Prices are matched plant by plant and by how it is sold, so a tissue-culture cup is never priced against a potted plant. New to a format? How to prepare and plant each one. Prefer to buy in person? Try the UK shops map.

Where care data comes from. Difficulty and position are ours where we hold a plant profile. Where we do not, we show what the shop stated on its own listing, marked with a dotted underline — hover or tap it to see which shop said so. We never present a shop’s rating as our own, and ours always takes precedence.

What changed today

Sold out 4

Back in stock 44

36 more

Aqua Essentials: 424 listings, updated 15 Aug 2026 16:00 Aquarium Gardens: 244 listings, updated 15 Aug 2026 16:00 Cloud Aqua: 258 listings, updated 15 Aug 2026 16:00 Horizon Aquatics: 318 listings, updated 15 Aug 2026 16:00 Pro Shrimp: 421 listings, updated 15 Aug 2026 16:00 Dennerle Plants: 130 listings, updated 15 Aug 2026 16:00 Aquascaping Express: 194 listings, updated 15 Aug 2026 16:00

Prices compare like with like: a listing is only matched to another when it is the same product and the same form or size, so a tissue culture cup is never priced against a potted plant. A shop that is out of stock never counts as “cheaper”.

The same plant, the same day, a different price

Across every product two or more independent shops had in stock at the last refresh.

40% Median price gap plants · 194 compared
90 Vary by over half cheapest vs dearest
£1.50 – £47.99 In-stock plant prices across every listing we track
1,125 Buyable right now of 1,722 priced listings
Plants 40%
Hardscape 16%
Filtration 9%

Median gap between the cheapest and dearest in-stock price. plants n=194 · hardscape n=29 · filtration n=73.

Why plants vary most. A canister filter is a manufactured product with a recommended retail price, so shops cluster within a few pounds of each other. A plant is living stock — grown, potted and shipped differently by every supplier — with no list price to anchor to. It is the category where checking actually pays.

Where the gap is widest today

Same plant, same form, in stock at every shop counted.

PlantCheapest DearestGap Shops
Aponogeton longiplumulosus £4.99 £15.99 +220% 2
Cryptocoryne Parva £3.99 £8.99 +125% 3
Hygrophila Costata £3.99 £8.99 +125% 2
Lilaeopsis Brasiliensis £3.99 £8.99 +125% 4
Anubias Coffeifolia £4.99 £9.99 +100% 3
Aponogeton longiplumulosis £4.99 £9.99 +100% 2

Two of our shops are one company. Aquascaping Express and Pro Shrimp share an owner and price almost identically, so they count once. Including both made the hardscape and filtration gaps read 0% — measuring a business against itself rather than the market.

Price history

7 days to go

Recording for 7 days across 1,983 listings. Movers, trends and “cheapest we have seen” need 14 days behind a listing before they mean anything — a lowest-ever price drawn from a few days is a coincidence, not a finding, so this stays empty until the data can carry it.

What went off the shelf

Everything that sold out, less everything that came back, valued at the price it was listed at. Across all three catalogues.

£245.18Net back on the shelf today10 out · 50 back
£2,512.59Net back on the shelf over 7 days373 out · 499 back
£3,610.50 Sold out, 7 days at the price it was listed at
£6,123.09 Back in stock, 7 days restocked or relisted

Today by catalogue — Plants £322.14 back · Hardscape £12.01 out · Filtration £64.95 out.

DaySold out Back in Net off shelf
Sun 9 Aug £419.86 £5.95 £413.91
Mon 10 Aug £526.66 £105.76 £420.90
Tue 11 Aug £638.10 £455.52 £182.58
Wed 12 Aug £608.29 £1,401.14 −£792.85
Thu 13 Aug £807.31 £1,168.44 −£361.13
Fri 14 Aug £378.96 £2,509.78 −£2,130.82
Sat 15 Aug today £231.32 £476.50 −£245.18

This is not a sales figure. We can see that a listing stopped being buyable, not why — it may have sold, been delisted, or run short at the supplier. Nothing here knows how many of anything a shop held, so a £7.99 plant counts once whether they had one left or fifty. Read it as how much of the market moved, not as money anyone took.

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Product Aqua Ess. Aq. Gardens Cloud Aqua Horizon Pro Shrimp Dennerle Aq. Express

Substrate is branded and sized, so a match is exact — and it carries a price per litre, which settles whether the 9L beats three 3L. Loose rock is compared by the kilo, though trade names like “seiryu” are used loosely between shops. Wood is listed rather than ranked: every shop grades it into its own size bands and no two pieces are alike. Working out how much you need? Try the substrate calculator, or the UK shops map to pick your stone in person.

About brands. These come from the maker each shop records against a product. Most shops also write it into the product name, so you can see it on their page. A few keep it in a field their storefront never displays — those are marked shop-tagged in the filter, and on the row you can hover the brand to see which it is.

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Product Aq. Gardens Cloud Aqua Horizon Pro Shrimp Charterhouse Aq. Express

A filter is its model, so these match far more exactly than plants or stone do — same brand, same model, same type. Where we have researched a model, the row also carries its flow rate and rated tank size, which lets you sort by price per 100 litres/hour rather than by price alone. Working out what size you need? Try the filter capacity calculator.

About the specs. Flow and rated tank come from our own research file of 51 matched models, every figure taken from the manufacturer where possible and left blank rather than guessed. They are the maker’s numbers, measured with no media and no head height — treat them as a way to rank filters against each other, not as what you will get in your tank.

1,009 plants tracked across 7 shops
70% in stock somewhere 705 of 1,009
£11.00 biggest saving on a single plant
318 stocked by 2+ shops 224 differ on price
473 we have a profile 47% coverage