44 Planters That Are So Cool, They Barely Even Need Plants

Welcome to The Deep Dive, in which we search high and low for the best of the best products for every corner of your home, from modern chandeliers to vintage rugs. Next up: planters.

At this point, we’ve pretty much succeeded in turning our homes into veritable indoor jungles. Our apartments, no matter how tiny, are filled with monsteras, bird-of-paradise plants, and rubber trees. We’ve learned how to pronounce Pilea peperomioides. Our black thumbs have changed to green, going from instantly killing the sturdiest succulent to being able to make the finickiest fiddle-leaf fig thrive. But what good is a plant without a perfectly Instagrammable planter?

Since household plants are slowly but surely replacing every other decorative detail in our spaces, it only makes sense to treat them like the sculptural works of art they are—and that includes their planters. After all, why bother helping your pothos thrive if you haven’t taken it out of its sad hardware-store plastic pot? Why spend hours fussing over your philodendron if its container is too ugly for Instagram?

Consider this a problem no more, because we’ve sourced the 44 best planters to give your greenery a home worthy of its natural beauty.

If you’ve hopped on the terracotta train…

If you like pieces with personality…

If you prefer out-of-this-world design…

If you want your plants to stand up for themselves…

If you’ve never met a color you didn’t like…

If you believe everything is better with a little patina…

If you’re a minimalist at heart…

If you like to think outside the cylinder…

If you just want to hang out…

If you want your plants to do double duty…

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