[purplebean]

Can anyone suggest good plants for an office?

If the mods think this should be on another borad please move it, couldn't work out which board was best

[sunshineband]

Good old spider plants cope with most things, but if you have sunny windowsills then chilli plants are excellent and keep cropping all winter 

[noshed]

Spider plants - supposed to suck up pollutants and thrive on neglect. If you want some plantlets, let me know I've got loads.

[New shoot]

There's loads you could have Purple Bean

These are the easy care options of the bunch and all of these should be available at a decent size. None are spiney so no worries about having them around desks. They need light but not direct sun and the Calathea and Schefflera are the most thirsty so avoid these if you thing watering may be an issue.
 

Calathea - big leaves with purple undersides
Chamaedorea - palm like
Chlorophytum - spider plant
Dracaena - Tall woody stems with a top knot of long thin leaves
Epripremnem - usually sold on a moss pole
Mostera - Swiss Cheese Plant
Philodendron - another one usually on a moss pole
Sansevieria - mother in law's tongue - this one can do sun
Schefflera - umbrella plants
Spathiphyllem - peace lilly - this one is noted for it's air cleaning properties
Zamioculcas - striking and unusual foliage plant well worth seeking out

 

[purplebean]

well with the number of suggestions for spider plants I had better start with one or two of those then

[Swing Swang]

I find that Poundshopus Plasticus is cheap and hassle free 

[Bizzi Lizzi]

There's loads you could have Purple Bean

These are the easy care options of the bunch and all of these should be available at a decent size. None are spiney so no worries about having them around desks. They need light but not direct sun and the Calathea and Schefflera are the most thirsty so avoid these if you thing watering may be an issue.
 

Calathea - big leaves with purple undersides
Chamaedorea - palm like
Chlorophytum - spider plant
Dracaena - Tall woody stems with a top knot of long thin leaves
Epripremnem - usually sold on a moss pole
Mostera - Swiss Cheese Plant
Philodendron - another one usually on a moss pole
Sansevieria - mother in law's tongue - this one can do sun
Schefflera - umbrella plants
Spathiphyllem - peace lilly - this one is noted for it's air cleaning properties
Zamioculcas - striking and unusual foliage plant well worth seeking out

 

These are really useful ideas.  How much space do you have in the office?  Peace Lillies are lovely on a desk but when I worked for the big multi-national company we had a showroom full of big structural plants grouped together in hugh planters, maybe three or five together.  We had a chap come in once a week to take care of them and keep the leaves shiney (many of the plants listed above actually). 

I'd go for non-flowering types of the bigger area and small leaves so avoid dead bit of stuff everywhere.  It doesn't matter too much on a desk with just one plant.  The large troughs also looked really good at Christmas with tinsel and the like be-decking them out.

[Goosegirl]

How about a Christmas cactus? You will get lots of flowers as they need a period of uninterrupted dark to perform well, which in an office should be easily achievable. Keep on the dry side in summer, then start to water and feed for crimbo flowers. You can get different-coloured flowers too!

[sloegin]

There are gorgeous (cheap ones) for sale in Ikea