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January 3, 2025

21 Awesome Indoor Herb Garden Ideas

Anytime is a great time to start an indoor herb garden! 

Filled with small fast growing plants that are easy to care for, an indoor herb garden can act as stylish home decor too!

Small space and apartment friendly, indoor herb gardens don’t require a lot of space. 

With a little water, and a little light you will be garnishing your favorite dishes with fresh home grown herbs all season long.

Let this fun collection of ideas inspire your DIY project or potted plant design

As always, follow the in text links below the images for the detailed tutorials and instructions.

Let’s get to it!

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#1) Hanging Chalk Board Indoor Herb Garden Idea

indoor herb garden

Source: Green Fingers

This hanging chalk board shelf is so creative and functional.

The small ledges are the perfect perch for potted herbs, and the chalkboard backdrop allows you to label and customize your arrangements.

#2) Hanging Indoor Herb Garden

hanging indoor herb garden

The Bird & Her Song walks readers through a wonderful DIY tutorial on how to create this awesome hanging herb garden. 

Next to a window that filters natural light is a wonderful spot for a herb garden.  Amber creates this awesome DIY with hand painted pots and cute rope hangers.

Love it! <3 

#3) Wall Mounted Herb Planter Box

indoor herb garden idea

Source: Green Fingers

If you have a cozy kitchen corner next to good window light, consider this attractive hanging wall planter.

A square frame and simple planting boxes look tidy and cute with matching labeled herb pots.

#4) DIY Farmhouse Herb Garden Display

farmhouse indoor herb garden

Camille Styles creates this adorable farmhouse indoor herb garden for just pennies on the dollar.  A piece of scrap wood, mason jars, and some pipe clamps will get you started.

Head over to her blog for the full tutorial.  What a great indoor herb garden decor piece!

#5) Vintage Milk Crate Herb Garden

indoor herb garden idea

Source: Green Fingers

If your home has a vintage farmhouse or rustic flare, you will love the upcycled milk crate indoor herb garden idea.

Potted in old vintage pitchers and milk containers, herbs stay neatly stacked together and easily transported to the perfect growing location.

#6) Coffee Mug Herb Garden Display Idea

coffee mug indoor herb garden

Gardening For Today shows a fun way to style farmhouse shelving using colorful coffee mugs!  What a fun and stylish idea. 

If you don’t have any farmhouse shelving you are going to love this lineup of DIY Farmhouse Shelves that you can build in no time.

What a perfect spot to display your indoor herb garden.

#7) On The Wall Mason Jar Indoor Herb Garden

wall indoor herb garden

Not Just A Housewife showcases a similar mason jar herb garden idea on two horizontal board planks.

I love the way these look hung on top of one another.

#8) Boho Macrame Hanging Herb Garden Idea

herb garden idea

Source: Green Finger

How stylish is this macrame hanging herb garden collection?

While this display is shown along a fence, it would look incredible indoors suspended along a wall, bay window, or corner location.

#9) Windowsill Herb Garden Idea

Olive & Cocoa  highlight this simple yet stylish design.

This wood box and white chalk labels are simple and stylish, and act as a lovely fresh accent to your window sill.

You can find a very similar wooden box here! 

#10) Indoor Ladder Herb Garden Idea

Indoor Herb Garden Idea

Source: Green Fingers

A tiered step ladder is a wonderful indoor space to grow potted herbs.

Tiered step shelving keeps them at varying height with plenty of room to grow without taking up too much floor space.

#11) Hanging Board Indoor Herb Garden Idea

Homesteading has so many creative outdoor and indoor gardening ideas!

This hanging indoor garden is such a great idea for larger spaces.  The clay pots fit perfectly into the drilled holes.

Be sure you have a secure overhead rod to attach this display to!

#13) Complete Hydroponics Indoor Herb Garden Kit

indoor herb garden

Do you want an indoor herb garden but don’t have any natural light?

You will love this indoor herb garden kit found on Amazon. 

It has everything you need to create a flourishing herb garden in your home or apartment.

#14) Window Framing Herb Garden Idea

herb garden

Source: Home BNC

This ladder styled framed window opening is a creative and functional herb garden display idea.

Alternating ladder style shelving fills the space allowing for colorful growing decor and plenty of natural light.

#15) Colorful Tiered Indoor Herb Garden Idea

indoor herb garden tiered tray

A Beautiful Mess showcases this fun and colorful design!

They use an IKEA plant stand with pots, and add a pop of color with some spray paint.

Genius!

#16) Kitchen Shelf Herb Garden Idea

Source: Home BNC

This sleek black kitchen shelf planter box is a stylish way to grow herbs indoors.

Ample planting room, and easily accessible this looks amazing at the end wall of a modern farmhouse kitchen.

#17) DIY Labeled Herb Pots For Indoor Herb Garden 

DIY Labeled Indoor Herb Planters

Coco and Mingo showcased this adorable DIY stencil design. 

They take simple small planting pots and add awesome stencil lettering to turn them into fun farmhouse decor pieces.

#18) Wall Ladder Herb Garden Idea

P.S. I Made This shows you how to make this ingenious farmhouse herb garden display idea.  This design would work well indoors or out!  

If you don’t have time to make one, you can shop similar ladder herb gardens here!

#19) Hanging Bucket Farmhouse Herb Garden Idea

Pinterest never lets me down when it comes to stylish display ideas! 

These securely fastened rods with hanging buckets make the perfect herb garden vessels.

#20) Sun Room Herb Garden

sun room herb garden

Source: Home BNC

This indoor patio sun room herb garden is what dreams are made of fun!

Freshness galore with a planter box on the wall, down the middle of the table, and alongside the wall as well.

So many incredible indoor herb garden ideas in this space.

#21) Framed Hanging Pot Indoor Herb Planter

ETSY seller Built With My Bare Hands offers this lovely modern herb decor piece.  I love the frame and small hanging pots!

My wheels are spinning on how to DIY this design. 😉

Happy Herb Gardening! 

I hope you found some herb garden design ideas that will make their way into your home.  Hey, it’s not too often that you can enjoy eating your decor items! 😛 

Indoor herb gardens provide style, deliciousness, and even help save you money from pricey store bought herbs.  You’ll enjoy having this all season long.

That’s it for now, cheers my friends!

<3 Ang

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