Tips & Inspiration

How to Care for Your Calathea & Keep It Alive

Long known as the divas of the plant world, calathea can take a bit of patience to care for! But with these easy instructions, you're sure to have a happy...

Our Top 10 Calathea

Take a look at the top 10 calathea plants we love here at West Coast Gardens in Surrey BC.

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...

Caring for Your Bonsai

Caring for your bonsai Bonsai offer us a unique opportunity to have a tree indoors, even sitting on our desk or in our living room! While we can't quite bask...

Taming the Wild Bromeliad for Your Home

The Bromeliad actually enjoys the simple life, and is very easy to care for! With a few tricks and tips you can easily keep your plant happy and healthy, even...

How to Care for Your Monstera Plant

Keep your monstera happy with a few tips from the experts! These popular plants have showy,, huge leaves that split as they get older (between 2-3 years old) into gorgeous...

10 Different Ferns for Your Home & How to Care for Them

Our top 10 ferns for your home! From staghorn ferns to brake ferns, bird's nest fern, asparagus fern and more—learn how to care for your favourite fern.

Top 7 Houseplants for Purifying Your Space

Plants absorb particulates from the air while they are busy converting carbon dioxide to oxygen, like a filter. On top of that, micro-organisms found in the potting soil of growing...

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...

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...

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...

Repotting Your Tropical Houseplants

Repotting your houseplants when they get too large means adding more soil! Making sure you are using the right soil for each plant can go a long way to keeping...

Using Neem Oil to Shine & Protect your Plant's Leaves

Bryan is here to show you how to use neem oil leaf shine (we use the MAYA brand) and keep your plants looking shiny and new, plus stop pests from...

Cyclamen Year-Round & How to Care for Them

Cyclamen are beautiful bloomers indoors or out—and their dark, variegated, & patterned foliage creates a dramatic look! Find out more about these unique home and garden plants, including how to...