Casaplanta

calathea · vanda orchids · talavera · palms · succulents · florida natives

Garden Center · Landscape Division · Southwestern Miami

Field notes The long version

A family-run nursery in southwestern Miami. The ground was planted like a botanical garden and run like a neighborhood shop: rows of tropical palms and flowering trees out in full sun, a shade house for the plants that want it gentler, and a retail yard stacked with Talavera pottery, fountains, and outdoor furniture.

The idea hasn't changed. "Come Grow With Us!" isn't a slogan on the gate — it's how the place works. You walk the acres, you ask questions, and you leave with plants you actually know how to keep alive. Estas en su casa: you're at home here.

Our nursery team sets the tone for every recommendation made on the floor. The team is bilingual, English and Spanish, because the neighborhood is.

The retail garden center is organized by light, because light is what decides whether a plant lives.

Full sun

The open field: tropical palms, flowering and shade trees, shrubs, and fruiting plants that want heat and direct sun. Annuals and perennials for seasonal color sit nearby, along with herbs and vegetables for the kitchen garden.

Shade house

Filtered light under cover: calathea, ferns, and houseplants that scorch in open sun. This is also where the vanda orchids hang and where new arrivals land first.

Retail yard

Talavera pottery in glazed color, fountains, outdoor furniture, garden décor, and fertilizer — stocked a few steps from the plants they feed.

Florida natives

A dedicated bench for plants that belong here: built for heat, rain, and sandy soil, and the easiest win for a low-water landscape.

Succulent arrangements

Potted and ready, for desks, sills, and gifts. Every plant leaves with a care plan — feeding schedules and pruning cuts, explained before you load the car.

The Landscape Division handles the work beyond the retail gate.

Design

It starts with a walkthrough of your property — sun, shade, drainage, and what you want from the space. Our team chooses plants that belong in South Florida, matched to your light and your maintenance appetite.

Installation

Crews set the design in the ground: beds, borders, palms, and specimen plants, finished, mulched, and watered in.

Plant rental & staging

Living installations for events and commercial spaces — they arrive, they perform, they leave.

Interior greenscaping

Offices, lobbies, and restaurants planted for low light and real maintenance schedules, serviced on a route.

Every project ends the way every nursery sale ends: with instruction. You will know what was planted, why it was chosen, when to feed it, and how to prune it.

Most garden centers sell you a plant and wave goodbye. Casaplanta's reputation is the opposite: the staff teaches.

Bring a yellowing leaf and someone will read it. Ask when to fertilize and you will get a schedule, not a shrug. Pruning cuts, repotting, pests, watering through the rainy season — the questions are welcome in English or Spanish, and the advice is specific to your plant and your spot at home.

Nobody will sell you a full-sun palm for a north-facing balcony. That is the whole point, and the staff says it plainly:

"We won't just sell you a plant, we will teach you how to care for it."

Hours

Hours · call (555) 010-2030.

Find us

Southwestern Miami, Florida. Room to wander, benches in the shade house, carts for the serious hauls.

Phone

(555) 010-2030.

Good to know

Come early on weekends for the best selection. The team is bilingual — ask in English or Spanish. Starting a landscape project? Bring photos of the space and note where the sun falls through the day.

Do I need an appointment to shop?: No — the garden center is open retail all week. For landscape design, call ahead so our team can walk the property with you.
What is the shade house?: A covered growing area with filtered light, for calathea, ferns, orchids, and anything that burns in full Miami sun.
Do you speak Spanish?: Yes. The team is bilingual — Estas en su casa.
Who runs the place?: Family-run, staffed by our nursery team.
Will you teach me to keep it alive?: That's the house specialty. Feeding schedules, pruning, repotting — ask before you buy or after.
Are these real prices?: No. Every price on this page is a sample — in-store tags carry the day's real prices.

What things tend to cost, roughly — every figure below is a sample, not a quote.

Florida native plant, 1-gal$9Sample

Tropical palm, 3-gal$28Sample

Calathea, 6-in pot$22Sample

Vanda orchid, hanging$45Sample

Succulent arrangement$18Sample

Talavera planter$36Sample

Fertilizer, bag$14Sample

Landscape design walkthrough$150Sample

Interior greenscaping, per service visit$120Sample

SAMPLE PRICING ONLY — final quotes depend on size, season, and availability. Call (555) 010-2030 for the real numbers.