7 Ways to Elevate Your Potted Plants
MOSS & ROCKS
My personal favorite moss to use is a nice like colored “Deer Moss”
An amazing way to elevate the look of your potted plants but it’s also great at keeping your soil moist. I wouldn’t recommend doing so with cactus and succulents since they mostly hold onto moisture in their bodies; I’d suggest only using small pebbles and minimal moss for aesthetic purposes.
2. POTS
There are a wide array of unique pots one can use to accentuate their individuality; from rustic to sleek and Modern.
As a general rule of thumb, I tend to match a plant with a pot I know it can grow into.
3. TERRARIUMS
Terrariums have a special place in my heart, this is a place for a designer to use their imagination using branches, stones, mosses, etc. Anything!
My favorite thing to do is make my display look like I’ve bottle a little microcosm of an environment.
In theory, as long as you can make sure that terrarium is exchanging gasses properly you could have that terrarium working indefinitely!
4. PLANT STANDS
Plant stands are an excellent option to display your plant. They work well in most modern interior styles.
5. HANGING PLANTS
If you have some ceiling space, this is a great way to green your space and get the most visibility out of your plants.
Be sure to consider using the correct hardware to support the weight of your potted plant.
6. HEIGHT COORDINATION
If you’ve got plants of all sorts of shapes and sizes and are not sure how to style them, try to collect them in threes. Make sure they are noticeably different in height; it’s most ideal if the plants in that group of 3 are all different species, in different size pots that are the same color. Stagger them in order of their height; place the tallest in the back of the group, the second tallest to the right and the shortest one next to them, yet spaced out enough to be noticed.
7. THE RULE OF 3s AND 5s
Sometimes the best thing you can do to make your plant look great is by bringing in more of that same plant.
This particular trick works if you have many of the same plant. Sometimes if you have 2 of the same plant in your space it doesn’t look as great as it would if there was just 3, sometimes if you have 4 of the same plant in your space it doesn’t look as great as it would if there were 5.
It’s a strange optical effect that for some reason that we all fall for.
There’s a design term called a “cadence” where you line up 3 or 5 and the same plant and that repeated pattern is very compelling visual to look at.
