What grows in it
Plant care guide.
Start with a variegated pothos: it is the plant most likely to still be alive a year from now on a wall someone forgets about. The pocket holds 1.8 litres, so it will take anything that would be happy in a pot roughly that size, inside or on a sheltered balcony. This page is a reference, not a shop: the canvas ships without soil or plants, and we do not sell them.
All plants Low light Bright light Pet safe 25 of 25 Variegated Pothos
Epipremnum aureum · Start here
The plant we suggest starting with. It forgives a dark corner, a missed fortnight and a hard prune.
Low · Sparse Care guide — Variegated Pothos Boston Fern
Nephrolepis exaltata · Pet safe
Soft volume and fine texture. It wants humidity and does not forgive a dry week.
Indirect · Frequent Care guide — Boston Fern Snake Plant
Dracaena trifasciata
Vertical, geometric, close to unkillable. The one for a hallway you walk past.
Low · Sparse Care guide — Snake Plant English Ivy
Hedera helix
Cascades further than anything here and changes the silhouette of the wall within a year.
Indirect · Weekly Care guide — English Ivy Spider Plant
Chlorophytum comosum · Pet safe
Fast, generous and pet safe. It throws plantlets on long stems that hang below the board.
Bright · Weekly Care guide — Spider Plant Philodendron Brasil
Philodendron hederaceum
Heart leaves with a lime stripe. As forgiving as a pothos, with more colour per leaf.
Indirect · Weekly Care guide — Philodendron Brasil Peace Lily
Spathiphyllum wallisii
The only one here that flowers reliably indoors, and it tells you clearly when it is thirsty.
Indirect · Weekly Care guide — Peace Lily ZZ Plant
Zamioculcas zamiifolia
Glossy, architectural and drought proof. It stores water in its rhizomes and asks for almost nothing.
Low · Sparse Care guide — ZZ Plant String of Hearts
Ceropegia woodii
Threads of tiny silver hearts that can reach the floor. Semi succulent, so it likes being forgotten.
Bright · Sparse Care guide — String of Hearts Baby Rubber Plant
Peperomia obtusifolia · Pet safe
Compact, glossy and pet safe, with a small root ball that was practically made for a pocket.
Indirect · Sparse Care guide — Baby Rubber Plant Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum raddianum
The most delicate thing on this page. Constant moisture or it sulks, but nothing else moves like it.
Indirect · Frequent Care guide — Maidenhair Fern Inch Plant
Tradescantia zebrina
Purple and silver stripes that grow fast enough to watch. Prune it and every cutting roots.
Bright · Weekly Care guide — Inch Plant Wax Plant
Hoya carnosa · Pet safe
Thick waxy leaves, years of patience, then porcelain flower clusters that smell of honey at night.
Bright · Sparse Care guide — Wax Plant Prayer Plant
Maranta leuconeura · Pet safe
Painted leaves that fold upright every night. Pet safe, low growing and happiest away from the sun.
Indirect · Weekly Care guide — Prayer Plant Chinese Money Plant
Pilea peperomioides · Pet safe
Round leaves on long stalks, and it hands you rooted pups for free. Safe around cats and dogs.
Indirect · Weekly Care guide — Chinese Money Plant Cast Iron Plant
Aspidistra elatior · Pet safe
Takes less light than almost anything, and it is safe around cats and dogs. Slow, upright, and killed only by overwatering.
Low · Sparse Care guide — Cast Iron Plant Kokedama
苔玉 · Kokedama
A plant in a moss ball, no pot. You water it by weight and it hangs, sits or goes on the wall.
Indirect · Weekly Care guide — Kokedama Indoor Succulents
Succulents · Indoors
They want the brightest window you have and soil that dries out completely. Most are wrong for the pocket.
Bright · Sparse Care guide — Indoor Succulents Begonia
Begonia
Several very different plants share the name. All of them want shade, even moisture and no spray bottle.
Indirect · Weekly Care guide — Begonia Calathea
Calathea · Goeppertia spp. · Pet safe
Safe around cats and dogs, and fussy about two things only: the water you use and the air in the room.
Indirect · Frequent Care guide — Calathea Weeping fig
Ficus benjamina
A young weeping fig fits the pocket while you prune it. Bright light, steady watering, and one spot it never leaves.
Bright · Weekly Care guide — Weeping fig Plumbago
Plumbago auriculata
Sky-blue flowers all summer on a sunny, sheltered balcony, as long as you cut it back every spring.
Bright · Weekly Care guide — Plumbago Mint
Mentha
A kitchen herb that wants direct sun and steady moisture, and a container to hold its runners. Pick it often to keep it bushy.
Bright · Frequent Care guide — Mint Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus · Pet safe
A sun-loving Mediterranean herb for a bright window or sheltered balcony. Water sparingly, cut often, and it stays compact.
Bright · Sparse Care guide — Rosemary Lavender
Lavandula
A balcony plant, not a room plant. Full sun, a gritty mix that dries fast, and a trim after flowering.
Bright · Sparse Care guide — Lavender Show all 25 plants Keeping it alive
Care is five habits.
Water.
Put a finger into the substrate. If the top few centimetres are dry, water it; if they are not, leave it. The pocket holds 1.8 litres of substrate, so it dries out far more slowly than a small pot: but a warm, dry room still drinks faster than a cool one, and no schedule survives contact with your actual flat.
Light.
Keep it out of direct sun, which scorches variegated leaves. The pothos it ships with is happy anywhere from a dim corner to bright indirect light, which is most of the wall space in a normal home.
Pruning.
Cut trailing stems back whenever they reach further than you want. Pothos takes a hard prune without complaint, and cutting above a leaf node encourages it to branch rather than run.
Replanting.
The pocket is not proprietary. When you want something else in it, lift the canvas down, replace the plant as you would in any pot of about 1.8 litres, and hang it back up.
Cleaning.
Dust the board with a dry cloth. Leave the pocket alone: it is holding damp substrate, and cleaning products have no business near roots.
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