You can put a plant on a wall without making a single hole. The catch is weight, because substrate gets a lot heavier the moment you water it. Below is what each drill-free method really holds, where to hang the thing so the plant lives, and how to take it down without leaving a mark. Why weight is the only number that matters A picture weighs the same on Monday and on Friday. A planted piece does not. Dry substrate is light, and the same substrate holding its water can be close to twice that, so the number worth planning around is what the piece weighs an hour after watering rather than what it weighed in the box. That gap is why plant hangers fail more often than picture hooks do. An adhesive strip rated for two kilos is rated for a dry, static two kilos on clean paint. Warm air above a radiator softens the adhesive, and a wet pocket adds load at the same moment, so the two things that break it tend to arrive together. How you water changes it too. A pocket you soak once a week swings further in weight than one you top up little and often, so the watering habit you settle into quietly decides how hard the fixing works. Drill-free fixings and what each one holds Every option below works without a drill. What separates them is how much they hold once the pocket is wet, and what they leave on the wall when you take them off. Where to hang it so the plant lives The fixing decides whether the piece stays on the wall. Everything else about the spot decides whether the plant is still worth looking at in three months. Light you actually have Stand where the piece will hang and look at the window rather than the ceiling light. Bright light with no direct sunbeam suits most trailing plants, and a wall facing a window at an angle usually gives you that. Two metres back from a north window is dimmer than it looks, which narrows which plants will cope rather than ruling the wall out. What sits underneath Radiators are the quiet problem. Warm, dry air rises straight past the pocket, so the substrate dries faster than the same piece would three metres away, and adhesive fixings soften in exactly that column of air. If the only good wall is above a radiator, use a mechanical fixing instead of an adhesive one. Doors and everything that swings A wall beside a door takes a knock every time someone leaves in a hurry. Leave the width of the door handle plus a hand, or hang the piece high enough that nothing reaches it. Hanging a canvas step by step The Living Canvas hangs from two eyelets on the back, 20 cm apart, so the job is the same as hanging a small picture with two fixings instead of one. Ten minutes, and the only thing worth slowing down for is the first step. Taking it down again Lift it off the hooks. That is the whole procedure, because nothing is bonded to the wall. Adhesive hooks release with the pull tab and a slow, straight pull downwards, and picture nails leave two holes the width of a pin. Two pinholes take about a minute to fill and less paint than you expect, which is the trade most renters end up making. It is also the practical half of the argument for putting plants at eye level instead of on the floor.