Babylon Store is a garden centre at 15 Turua Street in St Heliers, Auckland, holding a 4.7 Google rating. The shop specialises in unusual indoor and outdoor plants, a wide selection of pots and one-off botanical goods.
Anyone who has killed an indoor plant knows the problem is rarely the plant; it's the match between the plant and its spot. A good garden centre will ask about the light in your rooms, how warm they stay and how honestly you water before steering you towards something that will genuinely thrive. Pots deserve the same scrutiny — drainage is the difference between a happy specimen and a slow decline, so it pays to ask for the right soil mix when you buy. Hands-on workshops have become a fixture of good plant shops, and they're often the quickest way to learn what actually works in an Auckland home.
For plant lovers in St Heliers and Glendowie, Babylon Store makes a worthwhile stop on Turua Street.