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August | 2022
Feature
Costa Farms, located in Miami, Fla., is a 60-year-old family-run company and one of
the largest growers of new and unusual houseplants and outdoor garden plants in the
world. Justin Hancock, a certifi ed professional horticulturist and brand marketing
manager at Costa Farms, shares the following information about the latest trends in
houseplants as well as few of Costa Farms' top-selling plants.
PLANT TRENDS
• Variegated Foliage
Plants with variegated foliage are still on fi re in
the houseplant world. Any plant with green leaves
sporting speckles, splashes or veining of white,
cream, yellow, silver, pink, purple or other colors
seems to immediately take on
style status. Among the trendiest
right now include Philodendron
erubescens 'Pink Princess'
(blushing Philodendron),
'Global Green' pothos
(Epipremnum aureum 'Global
Green') and polka-dot Begonia
(Begonia maculata), but tried-
and-true plants like golden pothos,
crotons (Codiaeum variegatum) and
Dieff enbachia still hit high notes with
consumers, as well.
• Statement Plants
ere's also in sizable plants that make
statements. Among high-impact plants are
Monstera deliciosa (Swiss-cheese plant, split-leaf
philodendron), rubber trees (Ficus elastica) and
white birds-of-paradise (Strelitzia nicholai).
