Making your home look cool and pretty is really easy if you grow these purple plants in jars, bottles, and vases!
Grow these purple plants in bars, Bottles, and vases for a fantastic display of vivid foliage indoors on shelves, tabletops, windowsills, and more!
Grow These Purple Plants in Jars, Bottles, and Vases
1. African Violet
Botanical Name: Saintpaulia ionantha
African Violet is a perfect candidate for growing in transparent jars. Its stunning purple flowers and heart-shaped leaves look gorgeous.
2. Purple Passion Plant
Botanical Name: Gynura aurantiaca
Fill a jar or vase with water and plant the its cutting in it. Just make sure it gets plenty of indirect light all day long and soon, you will have a thriving plant!
3. Purple Hyacinth
Botanical Name: Hyacinthus Orientalis
Purple Hyacinths look stunning in glass vases because they have beautiful flowers, unique bulbs, and dense roots. These love bright light, so ensure they get plenty!
4. Wandering Jew
Botanical Name: Tradescantia
A little bit of silver on purple? Count us in! The Wandering Jew is a fantastic vase or bottle choice. It also purifies the air.
5. Purple Heart Plant
Botanical Name: Tradescantia pallida
All you need is a whiskey glass and some pebbles to replicate this lovely Purple Heart plant display. Just take a cutting and start growing it in water.
6. Purple Oxalis
Botanical Name: Oxalis
Purple Oxalis makes an excellent desktop companion. You can grow these in mason jars or vases. Plus, it’ll grow in both soil and water.
7. Tulip
Botanical Name: Tulipa
Nothing can beat the beauty of Purple Tulips. The flowers are pretty, yes–but you have to see the bulb and roots. So a slender vase like this will be a good pick.
8. Water Lily
Botanical Name: Nymphaeaceae
How about growing your own purple plant water garden with Water Lilies? Sounds amazing, right? A cylindrical jar, some pebbles, water, and some Water Lilies are all that you need to start with!
9. Water Hyacinth
Botanical Name: Eichhornia crassipes
Water Hyacinth is actually a purple aquatic weed that grows best it tall cylindrical vases. They’ll make for a lovely centerpieces like the one in the image.
10. Moses in the Cradle Plant
Botanical Name: Tradescantia spathacea
Moses in the Cradle is another purple plant to grow in a glass jar. The purple-green leaves really do steal the show. Just make sure you change the water every 3-4 days.
11. Purple Waffle Plant
Botanical Name: Hemigraphis alternata
Purple Waffle plants are best fit for mason jars! This way, you can see their roots and those vivid leaves—all together! Any wide-mouth bottle will be a good pick, too.
12. Crocus
Botanical Name: Crocus spp.
Who said you couldn’t have a floral garden in glassware or vases? You certainly can if you grow the beautiful Crocus flowers. A little bit of soil and misting can help.
13. Anthurium Aqua
Botanical Name: Anthurium andraeanum
Anthurium Aqua just needs mineral water over tap water when growing in vases or jars. Other than that, it won’t ask for much care to grow other than indirect light all day long.
14. Fantasy Venice
Botanical Name: Tradescantia albiflora ‘Nanouk’
Fill a glass jar with water and keep a Tradescantia Nanouk cutting in it. It’s really that simple to grow this purple plant in a glass jar.
15. Grape Hyacinth
Botanical Name: Muscari armeniacum
Grape Hyacinths have tinges of blue in the purple foliage that makes them stand out! You can plant them in water or soil-filled jars to adorn your space.
16. Coleus
Botanical Name: Plectranthus scutellarioides
Growing Coleus in water is super easy! Just set a six-inch cutting in any vase, and you’ll see the roots growing within a couple of weeks.
