It's a (House) Jungle in Here: 280 Plants, 1 Small Space

If plants are the new pets, Hilton Carter has *a lot* of pets in his home and studio space: 280, to be exact. But like all plant obsessives, his #junglevibes journey started small, with an empty apartment and one fiddle-leaf fig tree.

"I needed to fill space in my apartment," Hilton recalls. So instead of an extra chair, he brought home a fiddle-leaf tree, whom he calls Frank. Fast-forward 4 years and Frank is still his oldest, largest plant, but he was just the beginning. Soon, plants were everywhere in Hilton's space: In wall installations, billowing off of tabletops, perfectly framing a vintage chaise.

Soon, plants were everywhere in Hilton's space: In wall installations, billowing off of tabletops, perfectly framing a vintage chaise.

His most-loved spot in the space? A propagation wall that provides both form and function. "Before we moved in, I knew I wanted to have a living wall and designed these vessels I coined 'cradles' so that not only would I have a way to propagate and grow our personal collection, but when guests come to visit, let them leave with a cutting to grow in their homes," Hilton says. "The cradle wall is truly the gift that keeps giving."