These Vertical Gardens Are a Plant Lover’s Dream (2024)

We’re big fans of mission-driven Lettuce Grow, brainchild of Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik. The company’s sustainable farming-focused hydroponic gardening system, made from ocean-bound plastic, uses 95 percent less water than traditional gardening—and requires less of a time commitment.

Start by choosing the size of your stand, which has a footprint of less than two feet and can accommodate from 12 to 36 plants, then select from a menu of seeds. Options include veggies, herbs, greens, and themed bundles like “Best of Spring” and “Daily Juicer.”

The brand provides recommendations for indoor and outdoor planting, and there are add-ons, such as growing lights and heaters.

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If you're looking for a vertical garden that's a statement piece for your patio or yard, look no further. This ultra-stylish, on-trend multi-tier option is crafted from solid cedar, finished to highlight the wood’s natural knots and grain. At about six feet wide, it’s sure to make a big impression.

This vertical garden features planters in a range of sizes, all with drainage holes—plus black plastic liners—so it’s easy to switch out flowers and veggies throughout the season. Unlike some other wooden options we cover, this one is weather-resistant, so you can use it inside or outside.

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Stackable vertical gardens like this are often used to grow strawberries, but they work for any small plants, particularly herbs. Versatility and a small footprint are major benefits, plus this model is easy to maintain—simply add water to the top and it trickles down.

The Amazing Creation stackable vertical garden is affordable, durable, and offered in multiple colors. The garden is unique because you can fill as many or as few layers as you want.

If you only wish to fill two or three layers, simply remove the remaining tiers and the garden will still look complete. Each tier comes with its own soil separator attachment to prevent heavy leakage, too.

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For those with tall ceilings or more outdoor space, this leaning garden is an excellent choice. It’s another customer favorite, with tons of high-rated reviews from verified buyers. It features four deep, 27-inch-wide planters set within a six-foot-tall black metal frame.

The planters are all made from food-grade plastic and have drainage holes and plugs for indoor use, plus they come in gray and green in addition to the lovely espresso brown ones shown here.

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If you’re looking for a vertical garden that feels more like a piece of furniture, a wood model a great bet. This handsome option is constructed of solid fir with a warm, medium-brown stain.

It includes three fixed planters that increase in depth from top to bottom, all of which have drainage holes. The top two planters are tilted slightly forward to increase sunlight exposure, and the vertical garden stands at about 3.5 feet high overall.

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Living walls—a mounted collection of tightly clustered plants and flowers—are the original vertical garden, though they’re typically time-consuming to create from scratch.

This inexpensive wall-mounted planter gives you a similar effect, with 36 pockets to add your favorite succulents and herbs. You can mount it indoors or outdoors, and it’s made from double-layered felt with rust-resistant stainless steel eyelets.

Each pocket is roughly six inches high with a four-inch-wide opening at the top, and the entire thing takes up roughly nine square feet of wall space.

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The Cyan Design vertical garden has a cascading design and a distressed grey color that fits in perfectly with modern indoor aesthetics. The garden includes four separate buckets which each hold up to 13 inches of soil. Each bucket is removable, and the cascading style ensures that every plant has equal access to sunlight.

The exterior wood and interior buckets are colored a matching distressed gray design to highlight the colors of the plants or flowers you fill them with. Unfortunately, the vertical garden has no weather protection and is only built for indoor spaces.

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Vertical gardens are excellent space savers, but if you have a small backyard or patio, you won’t want something enormous that encroaches on your other furniture (or your fire pit).

This petite five-tiered vertical garden gives you all the benefits of a larger vertical garden without the imposing size. It has a black, rust-resistant, powder-coated steel frame, with 20-inch-long green plastic garden boxes that are detachable for easy watering and have drainage holes at the bottom.

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For those looking to mount their plants to a wall, the Algreen living wall planter is a great option to consider. The wooden frame is weather-resistant and water-sealed for long-term durability outdoors and the three planter buckets are made of sturdy, BPA-free plastic.

The interior slats let you place the boxes anywhere on the frame, so you can make room for tall or short plants without displeasing empty spaces.

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This light wood vertical garden is double-sided and holds a ton of plants. Handcrafted from solid cedar, it has six shallow, angled shelves on each side—ideal for mixing herbs and ground flowers—plus a planter on top for taller varieties, including tomato plants if you secure them to stakes. It gets high marks from customers for its design and quality of materials.

The four-foot-tall vertical garden widens at the base for added stability, and is just over two feet wide. Note that to keep it outdoors, it needs to be sealed because it isn't weather-resistant.

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