Decorating with Plants: 70+ photos and tips for green interiors

Plants have always been one of the best elements to decorate the home, both indoors and outdoors. Its green color, its seasonal flowers, fruits and different stages in the course of the seasons, are what make them such an appreciated element. Below we will show you a large number of photos and decoration ideas with plants.

Not having a small piece of land to enjoy a garden should never be a conditioning factor. Those who live in apartments can use a lot of options to enjoy the beautiful green that plants provide us.

Decoration with plants on tables or supports

A table, chair or any other support can become the perfect place to place some plants. It is important that the pots are pretty, decorative, since in addition to containing the plant, they will be another decoration in the room.

You can choose pots that also contribute to the decoration, in the most varied range of materials such as wood, wicker, plastic, ceramic or others. It is an important fact to know that they can also be constantly moved to decorate different spaces.

It should not be planted randomly, but look for plants that offer different colors and that, if possible, last a large part of the year with leaves and even bear fruit. Each color that appears according to the time of year will mark a different postcard.

Decoration with hanging plants

In case you have very little space, hanging plants are an excellent solution, and they look fabulous.

Another charming trick for your garden or balcony can be to paint a wall in an intense color, and hang pots with flowers that stand out on it.

Above ground plants

Having a small interior garden inside the house can be very revitalizing and pacifying. Sharing our space with plants is usually very positive, especially for those of us who live in big cities, where green is scarce.

Coming home and sitting in a room where we can see the green is very relaxing.

 

Interior beds

Indoor beds can also be built, in which we can place the pots, or plant directly inside.

They can opt for beautiful earthen beds delimited by wooden railings, creating a very natural garden, and much gained with a rustic style.

One of the most common and simple ways to set up an interior garden is to place several nearby plants, it can be around a piece of furniture, which serves as a unifying element.

Decoration with plants in the windows

This is another excellent idea. If the windows do not have a support where we can place the plants, they can be easily built with wooden boards.

They can also be hung with hooks.

Plants in the stoves

This is another place that we can take advantage of, in the months of the year in which the stove is not used.

If you have a fireplace, placing plants on top of and inside the fireplace is a great idea, especially in the spring and summer when the fireplace is not in use.

Plants decorating stairs

A ladder can also be an excellent point to place one or more plants.

Picture with succulent plants

For those who enjoy the shape and leaves of succulent plants, today we present a creative idea to make them participate in the decoration, which consists of using them to create a vertical garden that looks like a painting.

Since succulents require a much lower proportion of water than a normal plant, they are an excellent option for a vertical garden. All they need to do is get a large container with very low rims, into which to plant the plants. You can then use an old picture frame, or make a wooden frame the size of the container, so it looks like a framed piece of art.

They will be able to play with different plants to create a more interesting and colorful aspect, and then it only remains for them to place them vertically on a wall or table where the sunlight reaches, taking care to take them down once a month (or in the period of irrigation demanded by your plant species) to water it. After the water stops dripping you can return your work of art to the place where it belongs.

Small indoor water garden

Those who have outdoor ponds or fountains can use the plants that live in them to create small gardens for the interior, which in addition to being an incredible accent for their spaces, turns out to be a very good way to take care of these small plants. inclement weather.

Being able to adopt them in a huge number of variants, and for which the only limit is the creativity of each one, since they can be added in addition to said plants, stones and mosses, to create a beautiful centerpiece like the one we see then.

Needing for this only:

• a glass container
• Aquatic plants such as taro, water lettuce, water hyacinth, duck grass, or any species of moss
• Plastic pots to place the plants inside the glass container
• Rocks of various styles
• potting soil
• Lumps of charcoal
• Pure water

Being this idea very simple and easy to be carried out, as you can see in the photos that we leave you above with some different proposals; which can be adopted in all kinds of interior pieces, since they are very versatile proposals.

Plant care

Plants are our perfect allies to brighten up a garden, balcony, or home interiors, so their care is essential. Here we leave some useful ideas that will help you take care of them and make them look beautiful, brightening up the spaces.

Pot size

One of the main things when planting a plant in a pot is to know the size it will reach, so that the container where we put it does not disturb and limit its growth. In the market you can find pots of all shapes, styles, sizes and colors so that the plants can show off all their splendor, although if they have old containers, recycling is highly recommended, since plastic or other contaminants can be removed from the environment and really create wonders where you can show off your plants.

Those who choose to recycle containers to create the pots are reminded that they must have perforations in the lower part where the water can come out, which the plant does not need.

Land

The land is the main thing when planting, it is required that it covers the roots well and that it is well fertilized, the degradation of organic compounds greatly enriches the mineral content of the land, they can have a space where they can make organic compost and then use them for the plants.

Light

It is also very important that they know what type of climate favors each type of plant, to find the right balance between sun and shade for them.