Apparatus and method for forming an organized set of plants, this organized set comprising plants of different types in accordance with a predetermined organization. The apparatus comprises a number of first and second pick-up devices for picking up plants, which pick-up devices are displaceable in a first direction. The apparatus is provided with a displacing means for setting a mutual distance between the first and the second pick-up devices in a second direction to a first position and a second position, and a controller. The whole is configured such that at least one first plant and at least one second plant, which have been picked up from a first single row by the first and second pick-up devices, are able to pass each other, thus forming a second row in which the order of the first and second plants differs from that in the first row.
