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5 Tips to Create Your Own Desert Escape

Desert Escape is a collection of bold, low-maintenance cacti and succulent varieties that helps you achieve your dream landscape without ...

A Shopper's Guide to Buying Succulents

Discover the best succulents for indoors and out.

Low Water Perennials

Over the years I’ve developed a list of perennials that kept on blooming in my garden, even when water was limited.

Casual, Low-Maintenance Garden Style

Discover how succulent plants, creative garden beds, and kick-back seating help create an easy-care landscape. By Doug Jimerson

Caring For Your Bonsai

Treat your bonsai right and it will reward you with beauty and inspiration for years. These sculptural little trees are long lived with p...

10 Best Low-Light Houseplants

If your home or office is short on light, enjoying houseplants might seem an impossible option. Not so! There are many plants that thrive...

How Costa Farms Gives Back

We're more than just a plant company. Discover some of the ways Costa Farms gives back. 

We are Passionate about Plants and the Planet

Green = looking for sustainable and scalable operating methods while being keenly aware of the impact we make, not just on those who purc...

Growing Plants Sustainably: Coir vs Peat Moss

Growing plants in a sustainable way is important. At Costa Farms, going green starts with coconuts

Save Your Tropical Plants in Winter

Tropical plants won’t survive winter outdoors where temperatures freeze. But you can save them. Here’s how. 

Road Food for Butterflies

Add nectar-rich plants to your yard to attract and feed migrating butterflies. 

Bee Inspired With Costa Farms

Costa Farms welcomes bees and other pollinators -- petal by petal.

10 Colorful Annual Flowers that Attract Butterflies

Butterflies and other pollinators will flock to your yard when you provide nectar-rich annual flowers.

Give Butterflies a Drink

In addition to nectar-rich flowers, butterflies also need a fresh water source in your yard.

Make Room for Monarchs

Make a difference in the lives of Monarch butterflies by adding the right food and host plants to your garden.

5 Tips for Enticing Hummingbirds to Your Yard

Fast-moving, jewel-tone hummingbirds are fascinating additions to your yard. Here are tips for attracting them.

How to Make a Butterfly Garden

It’s easy to make a butterfly garden. Use these simple steps.

Chic Container Garden Ideas

Design your own chic container gardens by getting ideas from this collection we displayed in the Costa Farms Trial Garden. By Justin Hancock

Travel (Vicariously) to the Tropics

Yearning to hit the road to a tropical locale this winter? Get a plant from an exotic place and enjoy the lush view right now!

Watering Houseplants

Watering houseplants is one of the most common questions we get. Check out our tips !

The Surprising Life of a Norfolk Island Pine

From high-altitude seed harvests in Hawaii to growing fields in south Florida, your Norfolk Island pine makes a long and miraculous journ...

Houseplants Help You Have Healthy Skin

Discover how having houseplants can help your skin stay healthy and beautiful.

Houseplants Make You Healthier

There are many scientifically proven benefits to having plants in your home or office. Learn about some of the ways plants really can imp...

Healthy Shiny Houseplant Leaves

Keep your houseplant leaves happy and healthy with regular cleaning.