Use sturdy hooks or brackets to hang your ladder securely, ensuring that it can support the weight of the plants. To create a vertical garden, you'll need to add containers to your ladder.

5. Shoe organizer garden: Use a shoe organizer with pockets to create a small vertical garden. 6. Repurposed ladder garden: Lean a ladder against your balcony wall and use it to display potted plants.

Anton Trexler (Germany) peers up into the darkness as a dormouse pauses on a garden ladder. Dormice were frequent nocturnal inhabitants of Anton’s garden in Wiesbaden, Germany. One night, he saw one ...