Costa Farms Live Indoor Plant Bundle in Decorative Pots, Easy to Maintain, Air Purifying Indoor Houseplants, Assorted Varieties, Room or Office Decor, House Warming Gift, 8-12 Inches Tall, Pack of 2

Size of planter freshness of plants
I’m a plant lover at heart and tend to go a little overboard with my outdoor plants. Over the last five years, I’ve been experimenting more with indoor varieties and expanded my collection this past year.The Costa Farms Live Indoor Plants set is beautiful, though smaller than I expected. The planter is about the size of a coffee cup — something I would’ve known had I checked the dimensions before purchasing.What really impressed me was how strong and healthy the plants were when they arrived. They even sat in the box for several days while I was caught up in holiday activities, and they still looked fresh and vibrant when I finally opened them.Overall, it’s a lovely plant grouping that would be perfect for a windowsill or a small half bath.

Only one survived
I ordered these plants because when I was in the interior landscaping business, Costa Farms was known as an excellent grower of interior plants, and I used many of their products. When these small plants arrived, one had several brown leaves. However, I dropped it when I took it out of the box, so I didn’t want to complain, not being able to identify how much damage was already there and how much damage I did by dropping. Of course, the brown leaves were there, but my drop could have caused unseen damage. I removed the bad leaves and watered the plant and expected it to revive and do well. Another plant was totally wilted. But I watered it well, and it seemed to revive and looked good. The third plant was fine. I cared for the plants carefully, and I was one of the first 50 certified interior horticulturists in the nation, so I know how to care for indoor plants. Unfortunately, in spite of my best efforts, the two damaged plants died. I looked at the product description and saw a number for Costa Farms for a guarantee. I called that number, and the man I spoke with said Amazon was responsible for the guarantee. I explained that the Amazon website said Costa Farms was responsible and provided this number to call. He said that wasn’t right and gave me a number to call at Amazon. The man who answered said Costa Farms was responsible for the guarantee and gave me a number to call. I told him I had already called that number and the person answering gave me the number I was speaking to him on. He assured me that Costa Farms was responsible, and he would remind them of that. He told me he sent a message to Costa Farms reminding them about their guarantee and promised me someone from Costa would contact me to offer replacements for the two plants that died. I waited for several weeks before writing a review to give Costa Farms time to respond. Unfortunately, they never did. This was very disappointing to me, as the good opinion I had of the nursery from my years as an interior landscaper was tarnished by this. I don’t know whether their quality has deteriorated in the 25+ years since I dealt with them, whether they are better with the large plants we used in interior landscaping than the small plants in this order, or whether this was just a confusing glitch. Whatever caused it, this was a disappointment to me.

Generally Nice Plants, but Growers Choice Is Not Good For Cold Weather Locations!
I bought the set of the Costa Farms Clean Air 3-Pack O2 For You Live House Plant Collection, White Decor Planter, Green, Yellow. It was priced at $28.99 when I bought it.I chose this set of 3 Plants because I am trying to add Plants to my home, especially in my bedroom that can produce more O2 and help clean and freshen the air.I received 3 different plants. 1 Snake Plant and 2 other Plants that I could not identify.I finally found out that 1 of the unidentifiable Plants was a False Aralia, but that one was dying when it got here and passed away quickly.The other Plant I still have not been able to identify, but it appears to be a thicker leaved plant, probably a type of succulent, and it is doing OK.The Snake plant, which is a succulent, is doing very well.I live in a cold climate, way up at the North end of the Idaho Panhandle. It was 32 degrees (freezing) the day the Plants actually arrived at my home. I was home, so these Plants went directly from a very cold UPS truck into my warm home.The Plants were packaged by the grower pretty well, in a sturdy box with a bamboo stakes in each pot to keep the top of the box from crushing down on the Plants. The plants themselves were each wrapped from the pot, up to the actual base of the Plant to contain the soil. Then, each plant was also wrapped in a thick paper cone to help insulate it. There was also 1 warming packet placed in the center of the group of 3 Plants to help them not freeze. It was still barely warm when I unboxed these Plants, so it did it’s job pretty well, at least for the 2 Succulent Plants. Not well enough for that False Aralia though.Upon arrival and unboxing of the 3 Plants, the False Aralia showed some leaf damage from the cold. I was hoping it would recover, but it didn’t.The other 2 Plants, the Snake Plant and the other unidentifiable Plant are both succulents, so I am guessing that succulents are actually a tiny bit more cold-tolerant than the delicate False Aralia Plant was.I would suggest that if you live in a cold climate and decide to order Plants in late Fall or Winter, just try to order succulents. When you order Plants that are the plants from a grower’s choice assortment of small foliage plants, you’ll probably end up getting1 or 2 that are more delicate and won’t survive the days of cold during shipping.NOTE: I ordered even more Snake Plants about the same time as I ordered this set of Plants. ALL of the Snake Plants arrived in good condition and are doing great now, even the big 2 foot ones!As far as quality of the Plants, they are, or were, all nice quality Plants. No bugs, mites or hitchhiking frogs or spiders on any of them!The little décor pots that they come in are thin plastic, but they are very good looking and I am happy with that.My problem was really just a cold weather issue for the poor, non-cold tolerant, False Aralia Plant.I do wish that each Plant would be identified. I know there are photos on the ad that show some of the Assorted Plants you may receive, but one of the ones I got is not in ANY of those photos, and I still can’t figure out what it is! But it is a nice Plant with thicker leaves and it seems to like similar care as the Snake Plants do.I would totally order this set of Plants again, but with not knowing exactly what I’d be getting because they are a Growers Choice Assortment, I will need to wait until warmer weather returns before I can place another order.

Pour mettre de la vie dans mon nouvel appartement, je voulais acheter des plantes en ligne. Je ne regrette pas mon achat et le recommande !