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April 21, 2016

How to create a wall of plants

Wall of hanging plants | Growing Spaces

We recently decorated our hallway, stairway and landing – finally ridding the house of its last areas of beige and magnolia, and painting everything a fresh, bright white. Obviously this meant taking everything down off the walls, and I’ve taken my time deciding what to fill that great, white expanse of wall on the stairway. I wanted to try to introduce some plants there if I could, but I couldn’t work out quite how to go about doing it. Then I went along to B&Q’s recent press show, and saw some clever wall hooks made using plywood – we were even given a tutorial sheet to take home. We all know what a fan I am of using plywood in interiors, and an idea started to take shape.

Wall of hanging planters | Growing Spaces

B&Q had also sent me a handy tutorial for a hanging planter when I worked on my Spring Summer styling post, but I hadn’t had the chance to try making one. I decided that I’d use both ideas at once, and make a set of hanging planters to hang from plywood hooks arranged across the stairway wall. While Ben was tasked with constructing the hooks, I started on the macramé hangers. I made one using cotton cord but quickly realised I wouldn’t have nearly enough cord, so I switched to garden twine, and I actually really love the rustic element that the twine adds to the display.

Wall of hanging plants | Growing Spaces

 

Wall of hanging plants | Growing Spaces

Ben knocked up the hooks for me using 18mm plywood, wooden dowel rod (20mm) and dowel screws. The tutorial from B&Q had the plywood shape screwed onto the dowel, but we cheated and used wood glue (to avoid having to fill screw holes on the front). I went for an odd number of hooks and planters (a stylist’s trick to pull an arrangement together) – five seemed the perfect number to fill the space without the display feeling too crowded and busy. I chose some trailing plants – ivy and tradescantia – as well as a couple of spider plants, and the pots and plants all came from my local B&Q store.

Wall of hanging plants | Growing Spaces

Instructions for the hanging planter (adapted from the B&Q tutorial):

  1. Measure 8 lengths of string (mine measured 1m long), and tie them all together in a knot at one end.
  2. Separate them into pairs, and knot each pair together, around 7cm from the big knot at the end.
  3. Once all four pairs have been knotted together, knot one string from one pair with a string from the adjacent pair (I left about 8cm from the last knot), to create a zigzag effect. I repeated this twice, creating what looks almost like a fishing net.
  4. Sit the plant pot onto the big knot at the bottom, bring up all the lengths of string around the pot and tie in a knot at the very top, which can loop over the hook.

Wall of hanging plants | Growing Spaces

Macrame plant hanger from twine | Growing Spaces

Wall of hanging planters | Growing Spaces

 

Instructions for the hooks (adapted from the B&Q tutorial):

  1. Mark out your shape onto the plywood (we made circles, triangles and squares, but you could try any shape), clamp it and cut out with a saw.
  2. Work out how deep you want your hook, mark the dowel and saw the required length.
  3. Drill a pilot hole in the centre of the dowel and fasten the dowel screw.
  4. Apply wood glue to the other end of the dowel and fix to the centre of the plywood shape.

Wall of hanging planters | Growing Spaces

There’s a video tutorial of this project up on my YouTube channel, Heather’s Space, click here to watch, or even better, subscribe to my channel and then you can be sure you won’t miss any of my videos!

I’m going to link this post up to this month’s Create Make Share linky, as I think it’s a perfect fit for the theme of ‘Bloom’. Have you got a creative project or makeover that you’d like to share? Please do head on over, and add your link too.

Disclosure: B&Q supplied the products used in this post free of charge

Posted In: Crafts, Create Make Share, Design Ideas, DIY, Interiors, Lifestyle, Our Home, Styling Secrets · Tagged: B&Q, collaboration, hanging planters, hanging plants, house plant, houseplants, living wall, plants, review, spon, sponsored

Comments

  1. Katy says

    April 21, 2016 at 7:31 am

    Looks brilliant! Love it x

    Reply
  2. Claire says

    April 25, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    Love this idea and great tutorial ! Growing up we had a house full of hanging plants but that was in the tropics and it kind of fitted. I was wondering how to hang them in my Victorian house as I thought they’d look a bit silly hanging from the ceiling but I like your idea of hanging them from the wall up the stairs. Thanks.

    Reply
  3. Ang says

    September 4, 2016 at 9:54 am

    Hi there, could I ask the name of the plant that’s green with tinge of purple leaves?
    Thank you

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    • Heather Young says

      September 4, 2016 at 11:38 am

      It’s a tradescantia zebrina

      Reply
  4. caroline says

    February 8, 2017 at 1:32 pm

    I love this idea. every home should have plants and this is a great way to display them. and its always nice to have something to talk to.

    Reply
  5. Di says

    April 16, 2017 at 9:07 am

    This looks fab! Eying up this project for th bank holiday weekend 🙂 just a quick question, how do you fix the hooks to the wall?

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      April 16, 2017 at 3:54 pm

      Dowel screws have one end that screws into the dowel, and the other end is like a standard screw, so you drill a hole in the wall, insert a rawl plug and screw the hook into that. Good luck!

      Reply
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    August 11, 2017 at 9:45 am

    This design is steller! You obviously know how to keep a reader
    amused. Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to
    start my own blog (well, almost…HaHa!) Fantastic job.
    I really enjoyed what you had to say, and more than that, how you presented
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  7. Senecio says

    September 24, 2017 at 11:50 am

    This is a great article which I’ve bookmarked. I’m mad for houseplants, but in the last year I moved to a smaller more modern house. So the rooms are smaller and there is just less space to display or place them. I’ve known for a while that the staircase is the most sparse place in the home but didn’t like the idea of having a load of pots actually sitting on the stairs. This is so clever as I’ve loads of wall space to hang them like you have. Thanks for sharing Heather!

    Reply
    • Heather Young says

      October 2, 2017 at 12:19 pm

      This is exactly why I decided to put them on the stairs – it’s such a huge, sparse space otherwise! Good luck.

      Reply
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    October 10, 2017 at 10:08 am

    I starting to decorate my walls and this post is awesome! I learnt a lot! Please keep posting more ideas! I love them.

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  9. Jo says

    January 31, 2018 at 1:55 pm

    These are great! Can you tell me the length of the macrame holders from top to bottom please? Thanks!

    Reply
  10. lámparas says

    April 11, 2018 at 11:34 pm

    Nice

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  11. Vida Laboral says

    May 6, 2018 at 11:11 am

    Thank you very much for this post.

    I was looking for some ideas to decorate my small patio. I think that with some pending plants from the roof and some on the walls and also some shelves with decoration items it would look fantastic!

    Regards.

    Reply
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    May 10, 2018 at 3:50 am

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    August 11, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    Nice blog, I was looking for some ideas to decorate garden and I found this nice plants also to decorate other spaces. Nice ideas.
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    August 11, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    Love what you create. Sure ,I’ll copy some ideas.

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  16. padel says

    August 12, 2018 at 12:04 am

    Lovely ideas. Awesome insipiration

    Reply
  17. Adelgazar Piernas says

    August 31, 2018 at 11:37 pm

    Great inspiration, lovely plants, looking forward to start decorating my walls.

    Reply
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    September 5, 2018 at 2:10 pm

    Wow looks nice! I will try to do it by myself…

    Thank you!

    Reply
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    September 18, 2018 at 12:38 am

    awesome, i want to do some like this. thanks

    Reply
  20. Mago says

    September 26, 2018 at 4:40 am

    I have lot of plants at home but never though about create wall of plants.
    Thanks so much for the information :).

    Reply
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    September 26, 2018 at 12:37 pm

    These are great!, Nice Look

    Reply
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    October 3, 2018 at 4:56 pm

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  59. Complete Clean says

    February 3, 2024 at 7:47 pm

    What a refreshing and innovative way to integrate greenery into your home decor! The use of natural materials like plywood and garden twine not only adds warmth and texture but also presents an eco-friendly approach. It’s good to see that you’ve considered maintenance ease in your design, as the hanging planters would simplify watering and cleaning tasks around the stairway area. Trailing plants are an excellent choice for creating a dynamic visual effect as they grow. This project is a great inspiration for those looking to enhance their living spaces with a touch of nature while keeping practicality in mind.

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