With just a few weeks left until Halloween, make sure to visit the Roger’s Gardens Halloween Boutique, Hocus Pocus, and surround yourself in a world of magic.

With the moderate year-round temperatures and an endless array of indoor and outdoor activities, Orange County is the perfect place to celebrate every changing season. Fall is officially here, and Halloween is quickly approaching. With this in mind, we have rounded up a few notable events occurring in October that can serve as the perfect place to kick off the beginning of fall and give the final farewell to summer 2018. You will want to mark these down on your calendar:

The first day of fall was this past Saturday, September 22. And with this change of seasons comes a change in both what we wear and how we decorate our homes. This fall, we are seeing the strengthening of existing trends as well as some shifting and new trends emerging. Here, we turn to design experts for their thoughts and advice on these trends:

Every plant requires a certain amount of care, but not all of us have a green thumb. Some of us are more suited to plants that can put up with (or even prefer) a little neglect and maybe only need to be watered once every couple of weeks. We’ve rounded up 8 types of houseplants that look lovely, will add a nice touch of greenery to your home, and will also hold up well — even if watering tends to be the last thing on your mind. These are all houseplants, each ideally suited to rarely being watered and living in a set-and-forget environment.

One of the most anticipated events in Newport Beach, the Newport Beach Wine & Food Festival, is described as “the most exclusive, intimate and world-class epicurean lifestyle event in Southern California.” And Orange Coast Magazine says, “You might call it a who’s who of culinary masterminds and master sommeliers.”

As a real estate expert in Newport Beach and Eastside Costa Mesa, Villa agent Jennifer Frazier loves these communities, so we asked her to share some of her favorite local spots with us. The Bonita Canyon resident and East Coast transplant also offers what makes Newport Beach so special.

Three day weekend, warm weather, beautiful beaches, and endless events – Orange County has everything to make your Labor Day weekend the best one yet.

On the surface, Japan appears exceedingly modern, but traveling around it offers numerous opportunities to connect with the country’s traditional culture.

Luxury residential sales in many key coastal neighborhoods in Orange County were up more than 20% in the second quarter according to Villa Real Estate, one of Orange County’s leading luxury real estate firms. The figures are from the recently released Villa Home Price Index™ (VHPI™), a quarterly index focused on tracking home prices in key coastal Orange County neighborhoods.

It’s the power of Icelandic nature to turn the prosaic into the extraordinary. A dip in a pool becomes a soak in a geothermal lagoon; a casual stroll can transform into a trek across a glittering glacier; and a quiet night of camping may mean front-row seats to the aurora borealis’ curtains of fire, or the soft, pinkish hue of the midnight sun. Iceland has a transformative effect on people, too – its sagas turned brutes into poets, and its stories of huldufólk (hidden people) may make believers out of skeptics. Here you’ll find some of the world’s highest concentrations of dreamers, authors, artists, and musicians, all fueled by their surroundings.