Top 5 Houseplants with Nine Lives - Tough to kill plants for your home
Nobody has a perfect track record with plants, especially indoor houseplants. Life keeps us busy and remembering to water a plant is often on the bottom of a long to-do...
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The Fiddle-Leaf Fig Tree - Bringing Home a Rock-Star
The Fiddle-Leaf Fig tree has become the rock-star of home decor, with appearances in magazines, blogs and home decor TV shows. We aren’t surprised, as this gorgeous tropical plant...
Air Plant Love
Air plants (Tillandsia) are amazing! You may have heard rumors that they don’t need soil. Guess what? Completely true! No soil is needed for these beautiful plants to grow and...
Happily Ever After Orchid Terrarium DIY
Create your own gorgeous orchid terrarium as a romantic gift or for your own home! A moss lined glass terrarium with ....
Make a Tropical Heart Planter
Our heart melts for this indoor tropical planter overflowing with lush ferns and moss!
How to Care for Your Staghorn Fern
Staghorn Fern Platycerium This unusual fern is a gorgeous addition to your indoor plant collection, with eye-catching antler shaped fronds that create dramatic shapes and draping. Often used as a...
Money Tree Plant Care Tips
One of the most recognizable indoor plants, the Money Tree (Pachira aquatica) has a distinctive five leaf pattern and bright green colouring, along with a unique braided trunk. Although we use...
How To Keep Your Indoor Plants Looking as Good as New!
Congratulations! You found some amazing indoor house plants at the garden centre or nursery, and decided to adopt them! After the initial excitement of finding matching pots, making room in...
5 Care Tips to Keep Your Cactus Happy
Our top 5 care tips to keep your cactus plants happy! Learn how to care for cacti in your home with easy tips from West Coast Gardens.
Top 7 Houseplants for Purifying Your Space
NASA is the star of this problem (pun intended) and their “Clean Air Study” has shown that all it takes to clean up your air is to add houseplants! No,...
10 Auspicious Plants for Chinese New Year
Welcome to a new year! Chinese New Year is full of celebration festivities, so there is lots of time for decorating, parties, delicious food and gifts. Of course, we're excited...
Christmas Plants—Classic VS Contemporary
Keeping it green isn't a problem with houseplants—it's adding the holiday red and white that can be tricky when Christmas rolls around. But creating cheer for the season doesn't have...
Succulents for the Season
It's no secret that half the work of setting up for Christmas is moving everything else around or finding new homes for your everyday decor. That Fiddle Leaf Fig looks...
Pretty Poinsettias - Care and Display Ideas for Your Christmas Home
Christmas season. We only get one chance a year to celebrate eggnog, ugly seasonal sweaters (thank goodness), candy canes, Mistletoe, gingerbread houses and of course, Poinsettias. These colourful plants are...
Caring for The Remarkable Christmas Cactus
Desert dwelling plants aren’t usually featured at Christmas, as the season traditionally celebrates cold weather, snow and brisk pine tree forests. The exception however, is the Christmas Cactus whose natural...
Why We Love Terra Cotta Pots!
We love terra cotta pots, and not just for their earthy, natural look or accessibility. From a designer-crafted style to a basic terra cotta pot and saucer—they are easy to...