Purchasing plants offline is usually much cheaper than purchasing plants online, since a lot of money is spent on packaging and transport.
It is also possible to inspect the condition of the plant before paying for it offline.
However, there are comparitively few people selling plants locally.
Some of them are from Bihar.
During the monsoon, the plant seller had gone back to his native place.
Only in November the plant seller returned to the metro city and started selling plants.