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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Emma Kendell
Content Editor

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.