The Big List Of Self-Watering Planters For Stylish Gardening Anywhere

Well-maintained plants are a necessity in the garden, but they can make an immediate and unforgettable impact on indoor environments as well. The problem is that decorative houseplants require a level of upkeep that ordinary decor just doesn't – plants need sunlight, nutrients, and just the right amount of water. And don't forget unique pots & planters to help them fit into your interior! This post describes thirty of our favorite self-watering planter designs that look great indoors and take the pain out of trying to keep your plants topped up with just the right amount of moisture. Time for some serious indoor garden inspiration!

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Puro All-In-One:This planter set contains everything necessary to get started, including a water level indicator and planter granules. Imagine what a neat housewarming gift this set could be! This design would be perfect for a modern minimalist.

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Lechuza Delta:Smooth lines direct the eye toward your painstakingly curated indoor garden. Nobody will know these beauties are self-watering.

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Mkono Watering Planter:For those who want an even more inconspicuous self-watering planter, these options from Mkono look just like your average ceramic pots. These are available in three sizes, and each one comes with a pot, an inner basket, and a wick to distribute the moisture.

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Thumbs-Up Life Pod:Are you looking for a planter that will work for your small interior? Wall-mounted planters might be the perfect solution!

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Living Wall Planters:Self-watering wall planters are great because you can easily hang or remove them for watering without having to worry about getting drips on the wall or carpet.

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Lechuza Windowsill Planters:Designed to mimic the shape of traditional windowsill planters, these self-watering pots make it easy to provide the best possible environment for your flowers or kitchen herbs.

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Deltini Self-Watering Planter: At just 7 inches high, this compact planter can spruce up any stylish niche. It’s completely watertight so you don’t have to worry about messing up expensive furniture.

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Self-Watering Windowbox: Here’s a little something for the outdoors! This windowbox allows plants to thrive for days even in the driest of weather.

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Self-Watering Herb Garden:Each planter contains a convenient pour spout to make refills easier than ever – a great touch for prolific cooks who use a wide variety of herbs in the kitchen.

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GlowPear Modular Planters:Save your time and water with this easy-to-use watering planter kit. Expand your garden any time you want by adding another piece. The plastic construction is food-safe and BPA free.

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Cascada Planter:Here’s a gorgeous one! This planter makes it easy to turn your favorite herbs and decorative plants into a living work of art. Use the add-on-kit to grow even more plants in one self-watering container.

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Self-Watering Transplant Pots: This side of the market often gets neglected, but transplant pots need to stay moist too! Make the spring planting season even easier by introducing self-watering pots wherever possible.

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Stackable Waterfall Planters:Just water the top portion to provide moisture for all 12 plants! There are no reservoirs to worry about, making this a convenient piece for people who have time to water as needed.

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5-Tier Stackable Planter:Do you have serious plant aspirations? This 5-tier planter can accommodate all of your favorite small plants like strawberries, succulents, herbs, and so much more. Creeping vines would look great in one of these!

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Self-Watering Vertical Garden:Greenery is a great look for any garden or interior – and vertical gardens are especially popular right now.

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Self-Watering Hanging Planter:For some reason, it’s hard to find a good self-watering planter intended to hang from a ceiling or balcony. It’s a lovely feature for people who can’t reach for manual watering. If you are interested in hanging planters that look good, be sure to check out our featured set of unique hanging planters.

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Railing Planters:Are your railings feeling a little neglected? Planters can always transform a bare patio or balcony. These let you garden in convenient “set and forget” style.

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Colorful Railing Planters:For an even more personalized outdoor decorating experience, coordinate your container garden with these vibrant railing planters.

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Lechuza Trio Cottage:Extra spacious for extra-enthusiastic gardeners – contain your plants all in one place without sacrificing an ounce of style. Classic wicker goes with anything.

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Hydrofarm Tomato Barrel:It’s hard to have too many tomatoes. This all-in-one planter automatically waters your vines and includes a 4-foot-tall trellis to hold your delicious fruits securely in place.

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Mobile Garden Vegetable Pot: Two wheels and a handle make this self-watering planter and trellis combination easy to move whenever you need to. Never dread rearranging your patio again!

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Apex Trellis Planter: Grow your favorite vines with this combination self-watering planter and trellis. It even includes a handy wooden shelf to hold your favorite gardening tools or decorations.

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Magnetic Planters: High tech self-watering capabilities give these rustic planters a surprising modern twist.

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Tiny Animal Watering Planters:What a fun take on the self-watering concept! These adorable animals wick up water through their irresistible pink tongues.

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Animal Tail Planters:Colorful animals bring the water up through wicks that look like long tails.

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Cat, Dog, and Monkey Planters:These charming little animals also have tails that function as wicks, but these fun characters can transform any cup into a cool hydroponic planter!

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Wine Bottle Planter:Classic, creative, and elegant – these planters are perfect for a traditional kitchen style, or they’d make a great gift for the wine connoisseur in your life.

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Colorful Self-Watering Pots:Available from Mkono, these colorful pots come in a variety of sizes and colors for fun coordination or mixing-and-matching. These water your plants for up to 10 days at a time.

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Bird-Shaped Aqua Globes:These little globes are the original self-watering solution. Each one lasts for one week, and you can use multiple to adjust for thirstier or larger plant varieties. Plus, they look cute as can be and work with any planter.

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Cube Cottage Wicker Planter: This self-watering design makes a sleek impression with its classic wicker pattern, sure to complement a variety of indoor or outdoor styles.

Looking for easy to maintain indoor plants for your planter of choice? Do check out our post: 32 Beautiful Indoor House Plants That Are Also Easy To Maintain

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Product Of The Week: Bonsai Trees

We here are big fans of bonsais and thought we will use this week’s POTW to give them some love. Growing these little guys can be a rewarding hobby that adds beauty, greenery and clean air to your home or office. If you are someone who takes pleasures in the little things of life, growing bonsai trees and seeing them flower and yield fruits can leave you with a great sense of accomplishment! While it can take a bit of a time to start from scratch, you can always buy a grown up bonsai which can be easier to take care of. Here are some wonderful ones we found on this neat Etsy store. These are available as single pieces so what you see is exactly what you get.

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If you are serious about Bonsai and want to really explore this field, we suggest The Complete Book of Bonsai which you can get on Amazon.

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42 Unique, Decorative Plant Stands For Indoor & Outdoor Use

Beautiful plants need beautiful planters, and beautiful planters need beautiful stands. Where can you find the best range of planters and stands to decorate your home and garden? Right here. We’ve pulled together forty-two of the best-of-the-best designs, to make both your interior and exterior glow green. Construct a ceramic ladder of potted ferns beside your office window. Splash out on an artistic, geometric stand that makes a living room statement. Sit your draping fern atop a stone and resin Corinthian stand laden with goddesses. Make the little details stand out by accommodating a unique plant stand or holder in your contemporary garden or abode.

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Wire Indoor/Outdoor Planter: Designed by Norm Architects, these indoor and outdoor planters were inspired by the different heights of a Japanese garden. Assemble them yourself in a black or white hue, or large or small size.

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Plant Stand Trio For Indoor/Outdoor Use: White-washed clay with stenciled iron frames the best of your hanging ferns. Stand it in a corner for a green cranny to the power of three.

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Ferm Living Tall Plant Stands With Three Legs: Tripods aren’t just for cameras. These iron stands with black powder coating can hold the pot and plant of your choice.

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Indoor Silver Finish Low Plant Stand: The sturdy steel of these low-lying beauties mean they can grace your interior or exterior. Find the right shape for your plant with a choice of four sizes.

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Indoor Silver Finish Three-Legged Plant Stands: Stand your plants higher with these three-legged plant stands in the same finish. Hold up a larger plant or a glass bowl for an unusual approach to indoor greenery.

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Indoor Metal Caged Pedestal Plant Stand: These handmade iron cages create stunning stencils at the bottom of your plant. Stand their antique copper finishes at your home entrance, or in the corner of your living room.

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Golden Finish Metallic Plant Stand For Indoors: Get the feel of the Orient with these painted cylinders of iron. Choose from three sizes for a trio housing your ferns, flowers or trees.

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Modern White and Walnut Short Plant Stands: These white and walnut stands suit the Scandinavian interior. Stand their sturdy forms upon a wooden floor for a treat upon returning home.

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Mid Century-Inspired Plant Stand: Brazilian walnut and ceramic come together in this stand and planter combo. Created in a popular mid-century style, it stays true to its roots with American manufacturing.

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Modern Wooden Plant Stand: Four columns come together to hold metallics, ceramics and concrete. Perfect for a nook or tucked-away cranny, it’s the perfect height for beside a chest of drawers.

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Modern 2 Tiered Plant Stand: Two tiers of painted white wood mean two plants can sit on this stand. A spot beside the curtain could spark a spot of green.

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Modern Square-Shaped 2 Tier Plant Stand: Fancy a square instead? This two-tier plant stand with wooden paneling stylishly encases your green creations.

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Indoor Planter With Legs: Smarter than the rest, this planter features a drainage hole to let your plant breathe.

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Faux Bois Plant Stand: Thought this plant stand was made of wood? Think again. This metal resin creation sits next to your indoor or outdoor reading chair.

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IKEA Two-Tier Multi-Plant Stand: Fashion a virtual forest inside your home. Made of natural and painted bamboo, two rows of shelving mean all your plants can take a share.

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IKEA Bamboo Plant Stand For 3 Pots: Mimic the natural flow of the forest, with a three-tiered stand of three different orientations. Natural and painted bamboo coalesce in a structure worthy of the most stylish living room area.

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IKEA Vildapel Indoor Plant Stand: A mini bamboo stand makes your miniature tree even more miniature.

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Modern Rectangular Planter & Stand: Designed by Joan Gaspar, these polypropylene wonders can act as both planters and dividers. House plants atop and stylish structures underneath these units resistant to heat and cold.

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Large IKEA Indoor/Outdoor Multi-Pot Plant Stand: 13 tiers of black or white metal allow your plant pots to bask indoors or outdoors. A handy partition, semi-living wall or addition to your patio, this reasonably-priced contraption holds whichever pots you please.

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Air Plant Stand: Forgo the pot altogether, with this unique take on the modern plant stand. Brass available in three shades suspends your plant in mid-air, making a perfect exhibition out of your prized succulents.

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IKEA Satsumas Plant Ladder For 5 Pots: Another white and bamboo IKEA creation, this mini plant ladder holds five of your most common herbs and spices. Lean it against your kitchen cupboard for easy access come dinner time. If you are looking for beautiful herb specific planters, do check out our post on indoor herb planters.

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Small Succulent Planter & Ladder Stand: Even smaller and cuter, this three-tiered bamboo stand is perfect for the home office. Rest your phone upon the bottom shelf, a couple of cacti on the upper.

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Decorative Metal & Walnut Stand: Perforated metal and a warm walnut finish twist into geometric shapes that hold your plants. Give it a life as the perfect end table. If cool end tables are what you think would do the job for you, do check out our post on unique end tables.

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Bullet Planter: A metal planter in a primitive shape sits your plant high or low. Place it beside a window, for maximum exposure to the sun.

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Small Hairpin-Style Plant Stand: Pink, lilac, orange and teal are some of the colours your plant can drape over. Contain a small tree or large fern within this low-to-the-ground, dainty frame.

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Copper-Finished Caged Vase Shaped Plant Stand: Available in a gold or copper finish, this metal vase resembles a pineapple. Get fruity with guests by placing it beside the front door.

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Metal Cage Indoor/Outdoor Plant Stand: Tired of plant stands once pretty, but now covered in soil? Find an outdoor alternative, in this metal cage draining out from its floor.

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Decorative Planter & Pot Set: Glean inspiration from American Indian tribes, with these painted resin pots placed on matching metal stands.

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Dubay Bicycle Plant Stand: Hold five plants on a snazzy set of bicycle wheels. This innovative stand is a perfect find for the hipster keen on garden herbs.

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Red Bicycle Planter: Don’t have the budget for a pot-laden bicycle? Try this version for half the price. With three plant holders and a natty stand, it’s a more tantalising for the bank card in Big Apple red.

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Black Metal Plant Stand With Wheels: Multi-layered in durable metal, this wheelable stand ensures no pot marks are left in your room’s corners.

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IKEA Risatorp Multi-Level Plant Stand Trolley: Part-trolley and part-stand, this steel and birch creation holds a plethora of plants in your kitchen. Its oscillating shelves offer easy access to beetroots, tomatoes, and everyday herbs.

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IKEA Wall Upright Mesh Basket Vertical Wall Plant Stand: Looking for easy access, without the trolley? Look no further than this six-potted mesh stand, a display of baskets packed to the brim with plant life.

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Wall-Mounted Plant Stand: Take a different angle on plant hanging. This diagonal steel stand is mounted to the wall and available in either black or white.

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Modern Circular Hanging Plant Stand & Planter: Want your stand to make a stand of its own? This metal stand and planter draw focus, in a circular design as much a piece of art as plant hanging.

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Air Plant Holder & Stand: Handmade in Washington out of natural cotton twine, this three-tiered plant stand embodies hippy spirit. Hang plants, herbs or even healing crystals in its soft form.

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Ceramic Hanging Planter Set: Hanging from a single nail, this set of four ceramic planters look almost made of cotton. Add edge to your window ledge or seat with a row of cacti resting in its crevices.

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Layered Black Planters: Cut to the height you desire, these stainless steel planters are all about art deco – and a highly-expensive price tag. Garner inspiration from their inverted forms upon a dramatic white-walled backdrop.

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Ancient Greek-Style Architectural Pillar Pedestal: The Greeks were the first to know how to place a vase. Use this hand-casted stone and resin piece to pay duty to your fern.

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Corinthian-Style Ivory Finish Plant Pedestal: Get the look of ivory without the elephant cruelty. This resin Corinthian pillar holds large plants in a finish fit for the gods.

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Les Filles Joyeuses Neoclassical Pedestal Plant Stand: Also known as the Three Graces, these ‘joyous girls’ are only too happy to hold your plant. Hand-casted in stone and resin, they play an elegant role in your plant-filled living room.

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Classical Sculptural Pedestal Plant Stand: For a more demure look, these Greco-Roman ladies have it sorted. A place in your library could house their stone-and-resin casted forms.

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