If you love gardening but don’t have space, you can easily scale down a garden that could fit in your kitchen.
Vertical gardening is a great way to incorporate fresh herbs you can produce include in the kitchen. You won’t have to worry about traditional gardening tasks that include pest control, taking care of weeds and overall care. Plus, you can use grow bags, your favorite planters, or practically any other vessel for your plants.
More and more people are utilizing vertical gardens because they are easy to take care of and even more fun to manage. Imagine being able to incorporate fresh basil into that pasta sauce you’ve been cooking up all day? With vertical gardens, it’s super simple. Here are some of the best ideas that we’ve found to incorporate a garden into your home.
Vertical Gardening Ideas
Wall-Mounted Pallet Box
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If you like recycling, find some old pallets to build a pallet box you can mount on your wall or fence. Fill the box with soil and plant flowers, veggies, strawberries, or herbs.
Plastic Wall Planter
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This plastic wall planter is a vertical oasis that can be constructed from repurposed materials. You could make this a fun project to execute with the kids or even just piece it together yourself.
You could make this planter smaller to incorporate fresh herbs into it. Herbs can grow in any container that has adequate dirt and water and displays them on a trellis.
Living Wall
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A big impact in gardening can be had by creating a living wall. Whatever space you’ve got with the porous surface can be turned into one, whether brick or concrete or wood.
Water Reservoir Planter
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This vertical planter is made from plastic water bottles or another plastic reservoir. It’s an easy way to keep your herbs together without having to spend too much time constructing an actual garden or planter.
You can hang this concept up anywhere you’d like. It’s lighter in weight and can sustain plenty of dirt to get some of your favorite plants growing.
Wall Baskets
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These planters are essentially hanging baskets. It is a really cute concept for planting a lot of different plants at once. It works as a great space saver since you don’t have to worry about planting the plants in an actual garden or the dirt.
It’s such a cute idea you could even package this as a kit to give someone as a gift. Anyone who likes the garden will appreciate it.
Fern Wall
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This idea is perfect for indoor or outdoor plant walls. You combine ferns with other lovely greenery for the perfectly gorgeous aesthetic in practically any space.
Wall of Garden
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This "wall of the garden" uses multiple textures and varied types of pots and plants to create a wall of beautiful plants. Vertical gardens mean you can have a suspended garden in any sort of capacity you’d like.
In this case, this garden is neatly packed into a wall space creating a barrier/wall to add charm to any outdoor space. You can easily switch out the plants to match different holidays to add some extra interesting garden décor.
Brick Garden
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This brick garden is a space saver that looks adorable. It’s a great way to incorporate a theme into your vertical oasis. The plants on the actual bricks complement the brick wall planters perfectly.
It gives a well-rounded look when it comes to patio garden decorating. You can make these planters as small or large as you need, it just depends on preference.
Wall Planter Art
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What better way to give life to your outdoor space than creating some living art? This interesting wall concept incorporates living plants in place of more traditional décor.
It would be a great idea for an outdoor courtyard or even a side garden with a back wall. The space is so chic that you could host your next party with confidence.
Wall Gardens
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These wall gardens are bigger, but the larger the wall space, the more plants you can incorporate into the mix. The more interesting the plants, the more attractive the wall space.
This concept would look especially great with succulents or air plants so that you don’t have to worry about watering them too often.
Bromeliad Wall
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This wall features brilliant bromeliads in full bloom. It is an artistic approach to creating your vertical garden since it features solely flowers. Like air plants, bromeliads do well suspend because they draw most of their water from the air.
It is a great concept for anyone who often forgets to water the plants regularly. Follow this tutorial to make your own.
Rain Gutter Vertical Wall Garden
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This rain gutter vertical garden is an interesting way to house your plants. Since the project requires rain gutters, it can easily turn into a repurposing project if you have some old rain gutters laying around.
If you don’t have rain gutters accessible and can’t find any from a neighbor or friend, PVC pipe could be a decent alternative that won’t cost you too much.
Orchid Wall
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These natural aerial plants are perfect for building a vertical garden. If you walk around in South Florida or some other subtropical spots, you’ll spot these beauties growing out of random trees, buildings, and more – perfectly happy with a vertical existence.
Bookshelf Garden
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This bookshelf garden is a super cool way to create your vertical garden with simple plants and moss. Since the bookshelf has spaces already in it, it’s easy to turn this into a vertical nursery. You can either set plants inside the specs or fill the actual spaces with soil and a crate.
This photo depicts an interesting arrangement of green plants and succulents that makes the concept unique.
Garden Slats
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This vertical garden features plant boxes with slats. The slated containers give the space that extra rustic look with plenty of character. It is a fun concept in executing a vertical garden, and you can easily adjust the size of these planters depending on the size of your outdoor area.
You could even create mini-slatted planter boxes for extra cuteness.
Door Garden
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If you have the right kind of doors, you can craft a vertical garden using your doors. Add some hanging planters, attach some pots to the doors themselves, and some embellishments as desired for a gorgeous, easy vertical garden.
Floral Garden Wall
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Here’s another gorgeous example of a garden wall. These blooms burst brilliantly open, so anyone who passes will be sure to notice them. It is a great way to add some life to the mix or even change up an outdoor patio area.
Green Vertical Wonder
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This green vertical garden scape features tiny cones for the plants to grow. Instead of traditional mini pots for this vertical garden, these coned planters can be used to provide more nutrients to the plants.
These cones are typically made of peat, which is life-sustaining when it comes to tiny, new plants such as these little guys.
Peek-A-Boo Wall Planter
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While this idea clearly won’t work for everyone, those with a partial wall or in the middle of a remodel could embrace this unique and gorgeous idea.
As the wall is worked with, have your contractors or DIY team (read you and the fam!) create a “hole” in the wall that can effectively allow your plants to be tucked inside with a planter. Install a grow light for best results.
Recycled Tire Wall Planters
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This pic was taken in the off-season for these plants, but the concept of using old, recycled tires for planters on a garden wall or fence is a great idea. You’ll want to paint them, so they look a bit more attractive, then fill the bottoms with soil, plant seeds, and, voila! Vertical planters.
Add as many as the wall can support a full garden in a tiny space.
Wall Maze
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This vertical oasis features interesting shapes with plants. The rows cut into the green living plants and make an interesting feature to this outdoor scene. Imagine having an outdoor barbecue with this gorgeous vertical creation in the mix.
Your outdoor patio area would be the hippest place on the block, and you’d easily be able to gather friends and family for more outdoor events without the hassle of having to decorate.
Eclectic Wall Pots
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These tiny pots line this wall to create an interesting vertical garden. You could fill these pots with almost any plant you like. However, it’d be cool to have an herb garden in this format.
Since the pots are so tiny, you don’t have to worry about suspending them since the weight won't be significant. It’s an interesting concept to a standard vertical design.
Vertical Strawberries
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These vertical strawberry planters are growing strawberries, but if it isn’t strawberries you want, you can easily switch out this type of planter to any herb.
You could even try cherry tomatoes since these are also vining plants that tend to favor being able to grow down. If you crave fresh strawberries regularly, though, this is ideal for you!
Vertical Vegetable Garden Planters
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Of course, not everyone wants to grow strawberries. Taking the same concept as the previous vertical garden idea, though, you can choose whatever smaller vegetables and fruits to grow as well. Lettuce, cucumbers, other small melons – they all work great in this kind of planter. Just keep in mind any kind of root vegetable will need a much deeper tray than others with shallower root systems.
Kitchen Plants
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Talk about an easy, accessible garden! If you have a large enough kitchen space, you could devote an entire wall to growing your vegetables and herbs indoors. Plant herbs, small fruits, veggies, edible flowers – whatever you might use on the regular here.
Vertical Vegetable Gardening Ideas
Vertical Wall Garden Plants
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This gorgeous garden space idea is located right in the kitchen. Although it is in the kitchen, you don’t necessarily need to equip this space with herbs, but how awesome would that be to be able to start cooking and just turn around to cut some fresh herbs for that pasta you’ve been working on? Fluorescent lights could be incorporated to make sure the plants are happy and healthy.
Hydroponic Vertical Gardenscape
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This hydroponic vertical garden is a great way to start your very own vertical garden since it’s self-watering. The hydroponic system helps deliver water and nutrients to plants so that half of the work is taken out of gardening.
This system comes in many different formats, but they all relatively provide the same thing.
Wooden Vertical Wall Garden
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Although these pictures are succulents and other common houseplants, the concept is the same for growing veggies indoors. You need a blank wall, some wooden boards, and metal shelf brackets.
Place the shelves throughout on the wall, at whatever heights make sense for the plants you’re growing, and boom. One of the absolute easiest ideas for a vertical garden ever.
Wall Lettuce
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You can have a vertical oasis that grows any type of vegetable, but this vivid green lettuce looks super great against this wall. You can use the same rain gutter or hydroponic system we saw earlier to create your vertical garden scape.
Some vegetables may do better than others when growing them on a wall, but you can pick and choose some interesting focal pieces.
Indoor Wall Garden
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You can take this concept to create a living, flourishing kitchen salad! Plant fresh herbs, an array of lettuces, and other vegetables perfect for cooking with or throwing into a fresh summer salad.
Impress your guests at dinner parties with fresh veggies and herbs grown in your kitchen!
Garden Crates
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These vertical crate gardens are a super cute way to have your vertical garden neatly organized. The crates can easily be stacked on top of each other to create a sort of garden wall that is much different than those other concepts we’ve seen.
This way, you can label each crate, so there’s no confusion as to what you’re planting where.
Vertical Hydroponic Lettuce Wall
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One of the best and most eco-friendly ways to grow plants is using the technology of hydroponics. This concept of a full wall of hydroponically grown lettuce is perfect for salad eaters and folks who keep pets who love lettuce.
If I had the wall space, I’d seriously be doing this myself!
Jar Plants
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This vertical oasis features herbs growing out of mason jars. It is a super cute idea and wouldn’t take that much work to create yourself. All you’d need is a board with pegs, some jars, some planting stuff, and voila! Your next kitchen vertical garden scape is that simple.
It would also make a neat project to get the family in on, or you can gift the set to someone so they can set up their own kitchen vertical garden.
Patio Vertical Garden
Rustic Patio
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This rustic patio features beautiful vertical garden walls with different foliage. The whole look of this patio has been completely revamped with the life the plants have brought to this space. You could use all types of plants with space this large, but you can also scale it down if you needed to.
It is a gorgeous way to have a vertical garden suitable for entertaining purposes as well.
Swooping Garden Wall
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This patio wall features a swooping design that was prevalent in other indoor vertical garden scape design concepts. Adding some design to the wall is a great way to change it up and add some interesting textures and colors to the mix.
You could create any design you’d like, just be sure to use a guide before starting to plant seedlings.
Contemporary Patio
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This contemporary patio features floor-to-ceiling plants. These creeping vines easily adhere to wall surfaces to create this living wall that looks polished and astounding at the same time.
Having an entire wall garden is a great way to dress up a patio without having to add too much to it. If you can have multiple walls with this great gardening effect, the look will be even better.
Upcycled Shutter Garden
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I love this idea since it upcycles some old shutters you can find at a thrift store, junkyard, or on second-hand sites like OfferUp and Freecycle. This idea is perfect for some classic, vintage charm, whether you go with weathered shutters or slap on a fresh coat of paint.
Small Vertical Gardens
Nooks and Crannies
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This one is perfect for anyone with odd spaces in their garden area, whether indoor or outdoor. Find pots that fit in odd spots, place them on partial walls, stacks of bricks, tucked into nooks and crannies, placed on old logs.
Whatever you’ve got, you can use to build up a vertical garden in your small, awkward spot.
Wall Mounted FlowerPots
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One simple solution to a tiny space is simply mounting your favorite flat-backed flowerpots onto any wall space where you can. Beautiful matching pots, eclectic colors, or chic all-white or black square pots could do the trick for you, depending on the type of look and feel you’re going for.
Stacked Garden
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This stacked garden is the ideal way to incorporate fresh plants into the patio area or home area. The wooden panels pretty much act as a garden box, one that you’d find on a windowsill or along a garden edge.
This setup is perfect for planting plants that can be kept indoors or under a covered patio. They are easy to water and will grow all year long.
Planter “Sconces”
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Instead of just installing light sconces, consider mounting some wall “sconces” for planters. The metal rings are perfect for helping you create a walled garden with elegance and beauty.
Rustic Planter Art
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You could always turn your vertical garden into a work of art. Consider some themed pieces that work together as planters interspersed with weather-safe artwork.
Hanging Pots
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These tiny hanging pots are adorable and functional. They are adorable to look at, and you could easily make this a fun project for kids. You could help them paint the pots, and it’d be fun to teach them about how plants grow.
There’s just something magical about planting seeds and watching tiny seedlings sprout.
Tiny Pot Wall
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This tiny pot wall features a lot of those same pots we saw in the previous image, just more of them. It would be easier to hang all these tiny pots on a sort of chain link fence such as this one.
If you have an outdoor sitting area, this would be the best idea since you’re both growing your favorite plants and creating an outdoor space.
Succulents Wall
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Love succulents? Then use them for your vertical garden! Craft a wall space with appropriate plant boxes where the plants can secure their roots (only use established plants, not freshly planted succulents, or they’ll fall off!), and place accordingly.
Voilà. You’ve got an incredibly gorgeous and unique garden space!
Bonus: When You Don't Want to DIY It, Try These
Obelisk Trellis
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If you’re not feeling so keen on building something yourself, these obelisk trellises are perfect for some hanging plants in your vertical garden space. It’s perfect for vines, flowering plants, and more.
Hydrofarm Tomato Trellis
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For those looking to grow tomatoes in a smaller space, consider this Hydro farms Trellis option for tomatoes. It uses a 10-gallon bin with a trellis to grow your tomatoes upward for better growing in tight spaces.
Rotating Garden Planter and Composter
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This rotating vertical garden planter can grow 50 plants! It has a rotating feature and replicates a natural ecosystem so your plants feed off of organic nutrients that come from the composting system. Very easy to use, grow your favorite flowers, vegetables, or herbs in no time!
Pocket Planter
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With this pocket planter idea, being able to care for individual plants is a cheap and easy breeze. Simply place seeds to whatever herb or plant you want into individual pockets to control the growth process for each plant. Since the seeds are all separated, it’d be easier to take care of each plant. This way, you can monitor each plant's progress. What’s even better is that this is a self-watering construction.
Boxed Hydroponic Garden
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This boxed hydroponic garden is a perfect way to take care of all your plants at once. Since this vertical garden is so easy to take care of, you could easily put this on a porch or corner garden area. If you choose to plant fresh herbs, you should keep this wonderful little planter close to the kitchen door so you can pop in and out of the house to collect fresh herbs year-round.
Wheeled Planter Box
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This wheeled planter box features several bins for you to plant herbs or vegetable plants in. Since it’s on wheels, this could be easily moved from an outdoor space to the kitchen if you so desired. It is an easy way to keep track of your plants and allow them to get sun and yet bring them indoors if you needed to.
Vertical Growth for Easy Space Saving
So, there you have it: a plethora of ideas for vertical wall planters. So many great designs to choose from! But the question is, which vertical garden ideas will you try out for yourself? Have a few concepts that you like but aren’t sure how to incorporate into your outdoor space?
Mix and match wall planter ideas, add some grow bags for your twist on some ideas, and see what works out best for you! If you have any comments on vertical wall garden designs or if you have experience with your DIY project, please let us know in the comments!
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