You can choose pricey, affordable, or repurposed plant accessories for your garden and indoor spaces. These can be as classy, vintage, or weird as you want. There are no rules except that you should have fun!
If you’re in a rush, here are some of the best plant accessory picks from my list:
- Support plants and help vining ones climb with bamboo trellises, like the Bee Keeper Trellis and Wild Flower Wall Trellis.
- Repurpose old furniture and household items like trampoline frames to hang planters and wooden ladders as cool plant stands.
- Use food and tea cans and tires to make cute pots and planters.
- With leaf-shaped plant tags, the flora plant stake, and wood sticks, you can label plants with names and feel-good words.
- Terrariums are great for creating an indoor plant world. You can use a glass teapot or aquarium, buy a vivarium or terrarium, and create a magical plantscape.
- Buy or make botanical art. Glass-strained animals, plants, and cutesy objects are ideal for any plant.
- DIY a water fountain to add calmness to your day.
With so many fantastic plant accessories on the market, it can be a real challenge to know what you’re looking for and not just turn your plant into a pizza (with a bit of everything added).
So, I keep a few very specific guidelines in mind when shopping for (or considering) new cute plant accessories.
My guidelines are:
- Appearance of the Accessory
Any accessory I consider needs to have that unique feature or appearance that makes it special. That feature can be reserved and magical or bright and “wow-y.” But it can’t be boring. Cute plant accessories are showstoppers.
Whether an accessory is cute or functional, the materials must merit the price. If I’m spending money on it, I want to know that it will last, won’t harm my plant, and will continue looking good in a few years.
Bamboo, glass, ceramic, and steel are some of the best materials for plant accessories.
- Suitability to My Plants’ Environment
My plants are part of my decor scheme, whether indoors or outdoors. What I place with them needs to fit into my decor and style. While I adore Pooh Bear, I don’t necessarily want to add a million Pooh Bear and friends accessories to my indoor succulent garden, seeing as the rest of my decor scheme is inspired by a French Provincial style.
- Scale to the Intended Plant
My plants should look good with their accessories, not overwhelmed or like they swallowed some dainty little trinket. Scale is important.
An accessory like a terrarium needs to house plants, and they should fit appropriately. My plant tag or stake should be appropriate to suit the 8-foot delicious monster I have growing in my foyer, not disappear next to or into it.
While I would love to binge shop on plant accessories, I have a budget to maintain, so I won’t consider something that’s way out of my price range or doesn’t offer good value.
There are so many different types of cute plant accessories to choose from. Here are the best ideas:
A plant trellis can be functional or decorative. Bamboo is a popular material for trellises as it’s water-resistant and natural in appearance. With cute designs like these by Floratrel, you can create any look you’d like and expand the trellis with their modular units as your plant grows.
Trellises support plants, train creepers and vining plants, and section off plants for some order in the greenery.
Bees are essential to plants, so a Bee Keeper Trellis is a perfect accessory that adds geometric balance to any plant. The design lets large-leafed plants grow through the trellis without damaging the leaves.
A trellis is extremely handy when training a vining plant, but why not bring some natural cuteness with these Wild Flower Wall Trellis packs? The bamboo trellis has a spacer and adjustable positioning tape, which lets you position each mini trellis optimally to train vining plants to grow in a specific direction or height.
Even a trampoline frame can be repurposed into a unique outdoor trellis to train lush greenery and provide space for beautiful blooms. Repurposing is ideal, as the cute accessory becomes functional and unique.
Don’t believe that hanging baskets are outdated—they’re in vogue!
Choose a stylish hanging basket, or make your own from recycled materials like bicycle tires and paint them brightly to match your decor scheme.
If you’re more into soft touches, why not invest in a macrame frame to hang a pot or two around your living spaces? You can also design a support system for pots hanging off your garden wall (or indoor feature wall) using fancy wall brackets to suspend the pots.
Tin cans that have been painted can bring splashes of color and unique functionality.
With a few smaller plants, you can create a windchime with plant leaves and stems cascading into a spiral of life. You can also decorate plastic bottles by painting them, gluing decorative elements like stones and pebbles to the outside, or wrapping them in fabric with ribbons and lace.
A great pot or planter is an absolute show-stopping accessory. Something unique that fits your decor and personality will become a talking point in any room.
An alternative themed pottery pot handle or recycled machine part that can be converted into a container. Who knows, but it certainly makes people take another look, which is what cute accessories are all about.
With DIY only growing in popularity, why not get creative with some leftover PVC pipe from that last plumbing project and make your own tower planter? It’ll add height to your planted theme, and as the plants establish, you’ll have a modern version of a hanging garden.
I love something whimsical, and these swinging planters are gorgeous. If you want to DIY the idea, you can easily create a fun accessory by adding rope legs and a painted face to some regular planters for something artistic.
Buying a stand for your plants can be a costly accessory, and you can go to town if you have the budget, but there are also great alternatives. There are so many options, from using leftover PVC pipe to build your own frame with wooden slats to display your plants to upcycling old wooden ladders to make an oriental-themed stand.
With a bit of paint, some amazing plants, and other accessories, a display stand can really up your accessory game.
If you have a few lengths of pine timber lying about, it’s quite easy to assemble your own plant stand; best of all, you can customize it according to the sizes of your plants.
Don’t forget to make it cutesy, and you can let your character shine in your choices of plant stand. Side tables are an excellent place to display that unique plant you are so proud of.
Nothing is more inspiring than having a living library “growing” on your walls. Use shelves to create green screens and lively arrangements against your walls. Collect an assortment of pots and different types of plants to ensure your shelved collection is breathtaking. A shelf is the perfect functional accessory and can be super cute too.
I simply love how the long leaves of the top plants cascade over the shelf edge to drape the bottom shelf. This is a stunning use of recycled timber.
Using shelves with greenery is ideal in a small bathroom, and what better way to keep the shelf in place than to balance it on the old set of taps you never removed with your bathroom remodel (or find some at a building waste reclaim center).
If you love DIY, make a statement with this wall accessory piece. It’s like building a 3D puzzle with wood remnants. Get cutting and slotting, and don’t forget to add a few shelves into the framework.
Cute messages, names, and other words of inspiration are a perfect accessory for your indoor and outdoor gardens.
Leaf-shaped plant tags are great for festive messages, adding a message to a plant gift, or being creative. They’re made from water-resistant bamboo and come with a natural twine hanging system.
If you’re stuck for inspiration, you can choose a pre-inspired sign or stake to share a motivational message or encourage someone, such as this “You grow girl” Flora Plant Stake.
And if you already have an accessory like a bamboo trellis, why not proclaim what matters to you with a modular trellis topper like this one?
Combinations of similar material items, like a bamboo trellis and a plant stake, work well, too, and there are endless combinations to explore.
A little wit (or sarcasm or a prayer) goes a long way, and you can quickly try out some chalk paint stake signs to write a message of your choosing. I particularly like this “please don’t die” one, which is appropriate for those who usually stick to plastic plants.
With hot glue and resin being all the rage, molding your own signs and letting your inner artist shine is easy. Use this method to identify plants, share motivations, or track which plants were given to you by which friends.
Outdoor gardens need not be without signage, and these rustic whittled sign stakes are perfect for accessorizing an herb garden.
I simply adore terrariums for my plants. It’s like creating a miniature world inside a glass container on a small scale. You can't go wrong with so many fantastic terrarium designs you can buy or make, and even upcycled ideas like fish bowls and glass teapots.
This glass teapot terrarium is an ideal coffee table display item and an amazing accessory for this delicate creeper.
Even a candy jar can become something wholesome as a growing accessory.
Or go full-scale with an antique-looking fish tank.
And don’t forget that you can easily display your aquatic plants in a real fish tank, complete with a growth light, too.
Create a talking point with an oversized glass vase to make a whole diorama inside.
Indoor plants always remind me of the jungle, so why not create your own fantastical jungle with a few clever art objects hidden among the roots, stems, and leaves?
This glass beaver is an ideal example of how to make a botanical garden.
You can have whole collections of ceramic birds flocking among your vining plants and nesting in those cute ferns you love.
Finally, plants and water features go together like peanut butter and jelly. Add a gorgeous water feature to your plant or create your own with a simple water pump and a few containers.
The splashes of color thrive in flower form around this solar fountain idea.
