We made our way up and down 28th street, the final gasp of the plant district, comparing the health and sizes of different plants. My advice to the client when choosing--follow your heart. She did, and didn't get any bonsai or succulents, but really went for the tropicals.

We then headed through the outer boroughs for the perfect planters. These Eco Pots are made from rice and biodegradable. After about 5 years, you just plant them in the ground, and they become organic matter. They are available at:
The New York Botanical Garden
GRDN
and coming soon to Sprout Home.

We purchased these for the smaller plants to sit in the windowsills.

For the larger, we ended up finally purchasing black zinc planters on 28th Street (hint, the earlier you go to Planter Resource, the less cranky and more helpful the people are), but here are a few that we also liked:

Dig has nice ceramic pots, but they were too heavy and not quite modern enough for this space:

New York Botanic Gardens Carries these pretty, light weight resin planters, and they're very inexpensive. They just didn't have the variety of sizes that we needed.

Sprout Home had a nice selection, but to buy as many as we needed from them would have meant a wait of two weeks. We did get our castors from them. As well, we bought worm casings (poop!) for composting the tropicals.

And finally, the watering can from
Smith and Hawken.