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Ever gone to bed and wondered if you’d wake up the old, boring way? By the sun hitting your face through the blinds or by your alarm playing ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’ because you’re a legend? And have you ever thought: Boy, oh boy, my marriage is falling apart and we need some spice. How about: Self-Watering Hanging Plants, attached to the ceiling with adhesive hooks, that might, at any point, fall and crash?

Well, have I got news for you.

I initially got these for my kitchen but then I realised that my kitchen is too small and has no windows and also, I didn’t want the plants to attract little flies that would then start eating my bread. So I moved them into the bedroom/office/living room (I live in a studio flat).

Since I am renting (help, get me out of this hellhole), I couldn’t exactly drill into the ceiling. (As if I would know how to do that if I didn’t rent.)

So I did some research and I found these hooks on Amazon. They claimed to be able to carry A LOT. HERE IS THE THING: Hang them in your ceiling and push them hard against it, for as long as you can possibly manage. Then you LEAVE THEM ALONE for SEVEN full days. SEVEN FULL DAYS. Just two lonely hooks in your ceiling, chilling.

Then you can do what I did. I weighed my plants and plant pots (fully watered). They were both 2.2kilos. Then I filled two tote bags with books that weighed 2.5 kilos combined. I hung the tote bags in the ceiling for 72 hours, to check. I figured some bumpy books is better than smashed plant pots, soil and plant everywhere.

When they had comfortably hung there - and I had tried smacking them around a bit, pulling in them, spinning them around - and nothing had happened - I proceeded to hang up the potted plants.

I then held my breath and waited. Constantly worried, always imagining them crashing, maybe even pulling part of the ceiling with them down. Soil everywhere. I even put one of them over my laundry basket! What if it fell down and made my dirty clothes dirty?

And that’s sort of where I’m at now. Less anxious but oh, very much still anxious. They have, at the time of me writing this, been hanging sturdily there, for over three weeks. Three beautiful weeks where I have enjoyed them a lot. Hanging plants just seem more free, you know? Liberated. They’re just hanging there, enjoying themselves. A gust of wind will make them swing back and forth a bit. Weeeee.

So, I recommend. I give this project a 7/10 - with points withdrawn for the constant terror you feel. But if you like pretty hanging plants and never sleeping comfortably again, this is the SET UP FOR YOU.

THE PLANTS

I get most of my plants from Patch Plants. This is not an affiliate link NOR do they sponsor me, but I feel like they should. Their plants are awesome and affordable and arrive in one piece.

THE SELF WATERING PLANT POTS

I’m Danish so I’m a sucker for Danish design. It makes me feel young again. The plant pot in the photos is the Eva Solo Self-Watering Plant Pot. You can click on these #affiliatelinks to see how they work. It’s very simple. They are quite expensive - and you feel it. They’re ceramic and matte and beautiful.

And then there is Lechuza. The much cheaper option - they work well and they don’t look horrible, but they are PLASTIC so they don’t look all fancy-fancy. I use them for most of my standing-on-a-surface plants. There’s a little thingie that shows you how much water is left. It’s very exciting. Almost like a pet. You can click these #affiliatelinks if you’re interested.

THE HOOKS

And then of course, the hooks. They seem to be from a brand called Shappy and they boast about being able to hold up 30lbs/15 kilos (incredibly, 30lbs is 13.60kilos, so if you hang something there in lbs, it can handle more weight!). And so far, so good. They are also supposedly waterproof, so it’s worth beginning to consider… hanging plants in the… BATHROOM. STAY TUNED. In the meantime, here is an #affiliatelink:

Sweet nightmares, folks!

Much love,

Sofie