Interior and Furniture Designs: 36 Unique Watering Cans That Also Serve As Decorative Items

Every house needs a garden, and every garden needs a watering can. Whether you’re watering a few indoor plants on your balcony or hallway table to drenching a full-scale botanical garden, we’ve got the right watering can for you. Reach those hanging plants or small pansies in the centre, with an extra-long can spout. Decorate your garden with a painted metal bird, pig or chainmail-dressed elephant. Hold a can that’s easy to handle, with devices designed with ergonomic equilibrium in mind. Take a nose through our top thirty-six picks for unique watering cans.

$51BUY IT

Alessi Diva Watering Can: Made from thermoplastic resin, these twisting and turning watering cans steal the show with their unusual spouts. Buy them in black, white or green for a funky can that’s easy to clean.

$60BUY IT

Alessi Kiwi Watering Can: A unique shape and stainless steel spout make this can hard for New Zealanders to resist. Mimic the shape of their national bird in this thermoplastic find.

$49BUY IT

Eva Solo 2 Liter Water Can: Tired of watering cans that water your pants and shoes too? This Danish-made can provides a pointed plastic chrome spout, for a directed stream to your plants only. Place it on your patio ledge for a functional and artistic addition to your garden.

$13BUY IT

Ikea Ps Vållö Watering Can: Designer Monika Mulder had the fluid shape of water in mind, when she created this easy-on-the-eye garden fixture. Store water or your plant nutrient mix inside its form for indoor or outdoor use.

$28BUY IT

Brushed Steel Modern-Style Metallic Watering Can: Want a watering can in a truly durable material? This stainless steel beauty provides a good-looking and eco-friendly alternative to plastic contraptions. A reusable non-woven pouch ensures its frame isn’t scuffed during delivery.

$23BUY IT

Small Modern-Style Stainless Steel Watering Can With Long Spout: Take an artistic approach to watering, with this elegant can of stainless steel.

$28BUY IT

Master Craft 1.6 Liter Copper Watering Can: Employ the ease of a rounded handle to water your hanging baskets. This copper-plated find of stainless steel features a curved spout to reach those high-up places.

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X3 Watering Can: Even product innovators wouldn’t believe this can is made from a single metal tube. Bent and soldered three ways, this functional find comes in five colour-ways and placed first in the Best New Product category for NYIGF 2013.

$81BUY IT

Aguo Modern Metallic Watering Can With Long Spout: Want to water the lilies without trampling on the dahlias? This long-reach watering can tackles the distance in stainless steel.

$71BUY IT

Blomus Planto 1.5 Liter Stainless Steel Watering Can: Prefer your handle on the side? Find a similar model in this 1.5-liter can.

$45BUY IT

Stylish Brass Watering Can: Pretend you’re in the gardens of Turkey or Iran, with this round watering can made of solid brass. It’ll look a picture delivering plant-quenching water, or acting as a decoration on the garden ledge.

$36BUY IT

Dainty Copper Watering Can: Some of the earliest watering cans were hand-hammered in metal. Go back in time and forward in style with this can of hammered solid copper.

$23BUY IT

Antique Decorative Copper Watering Can: Protect your can from the elements, with a finish of galvanized metal. Hold up to 1.8 liters in its antique-look, detailed exterior.

$86BUY IT

Haws Copper Watering Can: Know a gardener notoriously hard to buy for? Package up a beautiful pure copper watering can, complete with removable fine brass oval rose and delivered in a brown cardboard gift box. Made in England, its original 1886 design ensures the unlacquered copper will achieve a rich patina with age.

$38BUY IT

Galvanised Steel Watering Can With Copper Accents: 1.9 gallons of water fits in this heavy gauge galvanized steel can. Use its removable rosette diffuser to create a gentle shower for flowers, or take it off for a gush that can water trees.

$12BUY IT

1.5 Liter Black Watering Can: Made in lightweight resin with a classic design, this small-spouted item is perfect for watering your plants indoors.

$9BUY IT

Stylish Indoor Pearl Watering Can: An imprinted flower marks the side of this recyclable plastic can. Use its long-stem spout to reach the hanging baskets in your indoor patio.

$4BUY IT

Elephant Watering Can: Get the kids into gardening with this cute elephant can. Holding two quarts of water, it’s a small and light introduction to elephant home décor in your garden.

$220BUY IT

Metal Chainmail Elephant Watering Can: Own a truly unique watering can, with this metal elephant and chainmail of 1,000 rings. Taking 16 hours to make, he’s a handcrafted addition to your steampunk home décor collection.

$26BUY IT

Pig Watering Can: Want your watering can to be part-time? This hand-painted pink pig is designed to hold the water for your plants, or act as a cutesy vase for your indoor garden area. Choose from a green or red rooster, hen, goose, duck, owl, bluebird, bee, turtle or cat design for variation.

$12BUY IT

Minimalist White Swan Watering Can: The fluid shape of water follows the natural shape of the swan. Invite a new bird to your garden, with this plastic watering can in tow.

$26BUY IT

Goose Watering Can: Feeling like a goose when it comes to watering your garden? Get the matching watering can with this plastic design holding one gallon.

$18BUY IT

Duck Watering Can: This lucky duck is another plastic friend for your indoor or outdoor greenery. Made of high-density polyethylene plastic, he’s made with the aim of withstanding the elements.

$26BUY IT

Hen Watering Can: From the same collection as our pink pig, let this rooster run wild in your garden. Fill him up to the brim with plant-quenching water, or stand him on a table or ledge for something pleasing to look at while pulling the weeds.

$31BUY IT

Owl Watering Can: Feel a couple of eyes peering through the back of your head? Never fear – it’s your hand-painted watering can in the likeness of an owl.

$28BUY IT

Blue Bird Rustic Metal Watering Can: Squirt a solid stream of water through this bluebird’s beak. A fetching ornament on the ledge acts as a watering can in handcrafted metal.

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More Bird-Shaped Watering Cans: Want a few options for metallic feathered friends? Take a gander at these folk-art inspired creatures, each a functional example of bird home décor.

$26BUY IT

Ladybug Watering Can: Love insects coming to visit your plants? Arrange the visit yourself, with this handcrafted ladybug watering the flowers.

$25BUY IT

Mouse Watering Can: You’ll want a mouse in your house with this cute watering can. Hammered steel with a rust-resistant finish means it’ll look a dream in your indoor or outdoor plant setting.

$29BUY IT

Translucent Plastic Indoor Watering Can: This handy green design is a perfect match with your fertilisers. A translucent plastic finish with US and metric measurements makes it easy to work out your mixing ratios.

$14BUY IT

Plum-Colored Novelty Watering Can: Want to own a watering can that looks different to the rest? This elegant plum design features a circle in the middle, a handle on the top, an elongated spout and 1.5 gallons’ worth of watering capacity.

$15BUY IT

Orange Water Can and Spray Bottle: For those after a water-holding all-in-one, look no further than this orange-coloured plastic contraption. Holding up to 40 ounces of water, it features a spray bottle up the top, a long spout down the bottom. Simply pour the water down the spout to avoid opening the top for refill.

$15BUY IT

Plastic Watering Can With Transparent Spout: Often wonder how much water you’re really putting in? Watch the water drain out of the transparent spout of this 47-ounce container. Paired with an ergonomic arch handle, long spout and large-fill opening, this green and white dream can fulfil all your indoor and outdoor watering needs.

$32BUY IT

Space-Saving Watering Can With Rotating Spout: Save space in your home or garden, with this watering can that allows you to fold up its spout. Complete with a non-slip handle, three quart capacity, translucent spout and removable rose attachment, it’s the total package no matter what size your garden. Choose from green, pink or blue colourways.

$8BUY IT

Small Plastic Watering Can: Go back to basics with these small 28-ounce watering cans. With a long spout, over-body handle and three colour options, it’s a cheap and cheerful option that fulfils the essentials.

$79BUY IT

Umbra Shift Stainless Steel Watering Can-Cum-Pitcher: Feel like it’s not only your plants that need a drink? These unique pitchers double as a watering can in white-clad stainless steel.