Personalize Your Houseplants With These Adorable Decorations – a Surefire Way to Cheer Up Your Home
Upgrade your prayer plant with a chic pick or add a sparkling suncatcher to your snake plant – here are our favorite charms.
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Got the winter blues? These cute houseplant decorations are a fast, affordable way to bring style into your home and a smile to your face. There are so many types to choose from that it’s easy to find a match to your home interior vibe, from modern to retro, minimalist to full-on boho. You could add a chichi stake to a snake plant, light up your cactus with a suncatcher, or turn your Monstera into a whimsical monster with a pair of magnetic eyes.
There are plenty of on-trend houseplant decorations that are as practical as they are pretty, too, such as supports to stop stems flopping or a trellis to turn a trailing houseplant into an eye-catching climber. As well as adding chic details to your urban jungle, you can use houseplant charms to accentuate an interior design element or tie a room scheme together. And if you’re giving a plant to a friend, then adding a sweet stake will instantly turn a run-of-the-mill present into a super-thoughtful gift.
Some houseplant decorations cost less than $5, and they’re just the thing to cheer you up on these dull winter days as we wait for spring to begin. Which is the right match for your favorite houseplant?
Light-Show Suncatchers
These mini suncatcher stakes don’t just adorn a plant with a cute crystal, they shower a rainbow light show all around whenever the sun’s out. They’re a great choice for houseplants that like basking in direct light and enjoy a sunny spot on a sill or in front of a window, such as cacti, Sansevieria, Yucca or pineapple plant.
Available in silver as well as gold finish, these 7.5-inch stakes hold elegant prism charms that create an elegant light show when sunlight hits.
The frames from which these colored glass crystals hang are around 14 inches tall, and you get four in a pack, which is great value.
This cute indoor plant spike is available in ladybug, frog and snail designs, each with a hanging glass prism to refract sunlight.
Upgrade-a-Gift Stakes
A houseplant makes a great gift for anyone and everyone, whether that’s a birthday present, an end-of-semester thankyou for a teacher or a get-well-soon thought for a dear friend. Add a cute low-cost stake, however, and you’ll turn even a budget succulent bought from the grocery store into a fabulous offering.
Made from solid brass, these mini mushroom stakes are super-cute, and the stems can be bent for extra style.
With 10 different sentiments to choose from, this metal marker stake is perfect to glam up a botanical gift for a friend.
You can buy these witty wooden plant markers individually or as a set of 3, 5 or 10, and choose from 32 sassy quotes.
Character Eyeballs
Here’s looking at you, baby! We challenge you not to chuckle when you add some personality to your favorite houseplant with a pair of eyes. Whether you choose stakes that push into the soil or magnets that clip onto the leaves, these are sure to put all eyes on your houseplant collection.
Oh hello! We adore these fabulous felt eyeball stakes with their on-my eyelashes, available in yellow, pink, sage, teal and brown.
These waterproof magnets will bring tons of personality to sturdy-leaved houseplants such as Sansevieria and Monstera.
These felt eyeball stakes would be hilarious on a drama-queen prayer plant whose leaves droop theatrically the second it gets thirsty!
Stylish Stem Supports
A houseplant support not only allows you to keep a climbing plant tidy, it can turn a trailing vine into a really unusual shape. Use supports to show off pretty leaves, too – just imagine using wall clips to string the beautiful heart-shaped leaves of Philodendron scandens high across a room like a garland. Many trailing houseplants are happiest in shade or indirect light, too, so a gold-toned support is a good way to bring a glimmer to a darker corner.
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Made of lightweight plastic, these 4-inch supports are designed to sit at the heart of a plant and stop its stems from splaying.
This contemporary 15-inch trellis will support a climber like ivy or train a small-leaved trailer like string of hearts up its DNA-inspired spiral.
Adhesive strips attach these Monstera-design clips to a wall, letting you transform a bare, boring surface with beautiful leaves.
Tiny Decor, Huge Drama!
Play with the sense of scale by adding a decoration that thinks your houseplant is a full-sized tree. Whether you want to turn your Kentia palm or Philodendron into a tropical-look jungle with a colony of chameleon ornaments, or delight your kids with a dinosaur pot hugger that seems intent on devouring some lush leaves, these decorations are a whole lot of fun.
Made from resin with a vintage metal-look finish, this handsome dinosaur pot hugger will look like it’s about to devour your plant.
There are 25 animals in this range of brass decorations, and this tree frog, sloth and grumpy chameleon would look fab on tropical foliage.
If you’re a Simpsons fan and have any houseplants with lots of lush foliage like a Boston fern, how could you possibly resist?
On-Trend Tentacles
We honestly have zero idea where this houseplant trend has sprung from, but it’s currently huge and we’re totally on board with it! Add a set of curvy octopus tentacles to any houseplant and you’ll instantly add a modern twist as well as ocean intrigue. They work well with all plants but particularly ferns or plants such as peace lilies or Dracaena whose arching leaf shapes mirror the ornaments’ shapely curves.
With seven resin tentacles ranging from 3 to 5 inches long, this set glows in the dark for nighttime drama. Available in black, red and blue.
Ombré octopus tentacles? Yes please! These four polymer-clay decorations are around 7 inches long in varying shapes with stainless steel spikes.
This set of eight vibrant 5-inch 3D-printed tentacles is available in red, green, orange, teal and purple with contrasting suction-cup accents.

Emma is an avid gardener and has worked in media for over 25 years. Previously editor of Modern Gardens magazine, she regularly writes for the Royal Horticultural Society. She loves to garden hand-in-hand with nature and her garden is full of bees, butterflies and birds as well as cottage-garden blooms. As a keen natural crafter, her cutting patch and veg bed are increasingly being taken over by plants that can be dried or woven into a crafty project.