Discover unique and artistic shapes to grow spider plants from wired hearts to baskets, and turn your greenery into living masterpieces.
There is something hauntingly beautiful about spider plants. They look effortlessly chic and elegant, with an aura that lights up every corner of your home. The long green leaves bring relaxation and ooze a calming vibe. But how long will you grow them conventionally? Find your favorite shape to grow your spider plant from below.
Ways to Grow Spider Plant
1. Hanging Basket
Grab your favorite jute or macrame hanging basket/planter and let the long green leaves trail down the basket like a breathing curtain. Otherwise, you can hang it beside your curtains or intertwine some leaves with fairy lights.
Just make sure your hanging basket gets bright, indirect sunlight. Spider plants don’t like harsh rays, so a bright corner near a window is perfect!
2. The Wired Heart
Bend a flexible yet thick and rigid wire into the shape of a heart, and place it above the soil and making sure it is anchored properly. Then let the Spider Plant grow around the wire and form a beautiful heart that is ethereal.
Keep turning the pot every few days so the leaves grow evenly around the heart and don’t lean toward one side.
3. Only Baskets
Take your favorite basket and intertwine its handle with the leaves of your Spider Plant together, also, make sure no harm is caused to the plant. This brings a classy boho look to your garden, leaving everyone awestruck.
Bonus Idea: You can use colored baskets or paint the handles white for a softer contrast with the green foliage—it gives a fresh, Scandinavian look!
4. Basket or Planter?
Take a basket without a handle or a flat rectangular planter and mount a wire on it, for it looks like a handle. Then wrap the leaves of your Spider Plant around it, because who doesn’t want to bring a minimalist look to their home garden?
Avoid using metal wires that can rust. Instead, use bamboo or coated ones—they last longer and are safer for your plant.
5. Recycle and Make Terrariums
Use different mugs, teapots, glass, and mason jars, and hang your plant in them to bring a mini terrarium effect. Otherwise, add layers of pebbles, soil, and moss, and plant your spider plant in an open terrarium bowl. Let it grow naturally and flow through the bowl.
Add activated charcoal at the bottom of your jar terrariums—it prevents bad odor and keeps the roots healthy.
6. Breathing Chandelier
Plants are the living proof of how small things can add meaning to huge places. Want to give your ceilings a different meaning? Take some plants in a lightweight pot and hang them from the ceiling in a circular pattern, or wrap the leaves around a wire and then hang them.
Bold Idea: Mix a few trailing plants like pothos or string of pearls along with spider plants to create a fuller, cascading chandelier effect.
7. Geometry Again
Choose a corner of your home and hang various geometric frames, or use wires and make different shapes. Grab your plants and let them hang and cascade through these frames or intertwine their leaves in the wires to make them grow magnificently.
And for the fun twist, you can try using triangle or hexagon frames—they add a modern, artsy vibe to any room and look stunning when the spiderettes dangle through the shapes.
8. The Spiral Dilemma
Wrap a metal or bamboo spiral rod around the center of your pot, and eventually guide the plant’s growth along the spiral rod. It will look stunning with tall pots and, over time, bring a visual illusion of growing motion in the plant.
Note: Don’t train the leaves too tightly—let them breathe! Loosely wrapping them will keep the plant stress-free and growing happily.
9. Wildness and Animals
Buy ceramic pots and planters that look like animals, and see how your children and pets play around them. Plant these dainty beauties in these planters because we know you’ll love the essence of the wilderness with the browns and greens that come to your home garden.
Go for animal planters with drainage holes—spider plants love slightly moist but not soggy soil.
10. Fairytales and Imagination
It is time. Time to bring your imagination to life. Buy planters that look like fairies and princesses or a character straight out of a Disney movie, because we all know our inner child. Imagine the fairy having wavy green leaves as her hair, or another princess holding a small planter from where the spider plant grows.
Creative Add-On: You can even make a small fairy garden scene by placing miniature mushrooms, pebbles, and fairy lights around your spider plant.
11. The Wall Frame Look
Mount small spider plants in lightweight frames or shadow boxes and hang them on your wall. They make beautiful, air-purifying living art pieces and are easy to move around when you want a new setup!
The spider plant in itself is an epitome of having a fluid life and non-linear growth. How could you ever curtail it to just one idea of growing? Let us know how you are making your spider plant grow in the comments below.
