Metal Tiered Plant Stand

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Updated 10/04/2021

Tiered plant stands are a fun and decorative way to showcase your plants. And a metal tiered plant stands offer an industrial edge and durability, that will give you a style quite a bit different than the traditional wood plant stand. If you are interested in going a little different with your plants, take a look at these.

Buying Guide

Finding somewhere suitable to store your plants, whether indoor or outdoor, can be quite difficult. Not only do you need to find some space in your home, but you also need to think about a storage rack or stand. Metal tiered plant stands are the ideal place to keep your plants, and you can keep them indoor in the kitchen or outdoors in the garden or on the patio. Since there are several designs available, we'll consider some of the most popular and useful styles for inside or outside the house.

What are the most common designs of metal tiered plant stands?

Metal stand and ceramic bowls

If you aren't a fan of entirely metal furniture items, you can explore other options, such as a metal stand with ceramic bowls in which to place your plants. There are three ceramic bowls which create the tiered effect – the largest being at the bottom and the smallest at the top. On either side of the bowls are curved metal pieces, joining together to make the stand. Each of the bowls is attached to the next through the use of a curved metal rod or hook. You can keep plants inside each of the bowls, and circular plant pots are recommended to match the shape of the ceramic bowls.

Metal tiered corner plant stand

This design works well in a greenhouse or small garden where there may be limited space for your plants. Rather than taking up more space alongside a wall or in the middle of the greenhouse, you can save space with a corner plant stand and keep it a little further out of sight. The top shelf is the smallest, and the bottom shelf is the largest. The top shelf will normally only hold one plant, while the middle shelf may hold 2-3, and the bottom shelf will hold a total of four or five. The metal frame may be painted white or another color, but you will see equal numbers of unpainted stands.

Metal tiered step style plant stand

A style which resembles the beginning of a curved staircase, this beautiful and modern design is ideal if you have just two or three plants. Suited to the indoors but equally well-matched to the outdoor environment, a metal frame supports three wooden steps. Each of the steps varying in size, a popular look is to position one plant on the top step and a second on the bottom. There is little need for much further detail, since along the bottom of the steps is an intricate pattern formed using metal.

Metal plant stand with circular shelves

A square and rectangular look doesn't appeal to everybody, so if you're looking for something more circular and rounded, this could be the answer for you. Made completely from metal, the stand typically consists of the frame and three or four circular shelves. Differing in size from the top to the bottom, one or two of the shelves may also be at a slight distance from the other shelves. This gives the item a modern effect, and its resistance to the weather when kept outdoors.