Home visit: how to grow a window garden

Want to enjoy nature at home but don’t have a garden or balcony? Turn your window space into a place for growing plants and herbs indoors. In Portugal, a window garden has helped Andreia to reconnect with nature at home. 

GROW HIGH AND LOW A window garden doesn’t just mean storing plants on a windowsill – it’s about using the natural light to grow a living wall of greenery inside your home. ‘When macramé got trendy again, I started hanging plants from the curtain pole above our biggest window,’ says Andreia. ‘Since then, I’ve made this window the focus of our indoor garden, with plants of all shapes and sizes growing at lots of different heights.’ 

‘When I was younger I always said, “I’d rather have flowers in my hair than diamonds around my neck.” I love my plants and flowers – they’re relaxing and calming’

Andreia, textile artist, Portugal