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...
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Our Top 10 Calathea
Take a look at the top 10 calathea plants we love here at West Coast Gardens in Surrey BC.
Planting Bulbs in Pots for Your Home
When the weather is still chilly during the early months of the year, we long for the colourful blooms of bulbs but can't relax outdoors to enjoy them. That's when...
Never Too Early for Spring
Early spring holds many opportunities to enjoy bright blooms, fresh herbs, and more. Find out some of our favourite gardening activities for January, February, March & April.
Refreshing your Spring Planter Boxes
Spring Planter Boxes Now that spring or early summer has arrived, you'll probably want to freshen up some of your spring planter boxes and container gardens with new plants for...
Celebrating Easter Plants In Your Home & Garden
Easter plants, blooms, and container gardens to create a spring season indoors and out. Pansy and ranunculus table centrepieces, early spring planters for the front stoop, and more...
A Simple Easter Table with Pansies
Create a happy table for Easter with cute pansies in simple pots. A purple party for you, your family, and friends for the Spring holiday.
Spring Front Door Planter Ideas
We welcome spring with bright blooms, colourful planters, and flowering front doors. Make an entrance for family and friends, and something that will give you a smile every time you...
Early Spring Vibes at Home
Waiting for Spring is more than we can bear—so as soon as those early blooms begin to show and the temperatures edge upwards, we're ready to celebrate the season in...
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...
Layered Bulb Planter for Blooms ALL Spring
Layering, or planting “lasagna-style,” is a technique that lets you enjoy successive waves of bloom in a single container by overlapping the bloom times of early, mid and late-blooming spring...
Quick Tip: Planting Tulip Bulbs
Jason shares a great tip for planting tulip bulbs to get the maximum impact in your garden.
How to Care for a Staghorn Fern
How to keep this unique fern happy and healthy? Find out below!
15 Plants to Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden
Hummingbirds! When you're sitting in the garden, enjoying a cold drink with friends, it's exciting to hear the humming buzz of wings and look up to see hummingbirds taking a...
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...