The tabletop planter, which was created for label Design House Stockholm, is an even more compact version of Atelier 2+ Greenhouse, a standing planter box. The Greenhouse Mini launched at last week's Stockholm Furniture Fair and is intended as a tabletop home for miniature gardens.

hese faceted metal plant pots by Brooklyn studio The Principals can be piled up to create a "modular vertical garden". The Prism Planters are made from sheets of aluminium or pre-rusted steel, which are folded into triangles to form a container.

The soil is the basic material for cultivating flowers, the sustenance of flower roots, and the source of nutrition, water and air supply. Plant roots absorb nutrients from the soil to feed and thrive themselves.