The Petunia Tower · Launching 2026

A living tower of
cascading petunias,
six feet tall.

Dozens of blooms spiraling top to bottom — from a footprint smaller than a barstool. Hand-built in our New Meadows greenhouse, now headed into production. Get on the list and we’ll tell you the moment it launches.

No charge, no spam — just a note when it’s ready. Built in Idaho, made in the USA.

The Petunia Tower prototype — a round terracotta tower planted with red, white, and purple petunias cascading from top to bottom.
The hand-built prototype

What it is

One planter. A whole summer’s worth of petunias.

Close-up of a single vivid magenta petunia bloom.

“It’s a flower bed that grows up instead of out.”

Most vertical planters give you a shrub. The Petunia Tower gives you a six-foot waterfall of color — plants tucked into pockets all the way around, blooming out and tumbling down until the whole column disappears under petunias.

It takes the space of a single pot but plants like a garden row. Set one by the front door, flank a gate with a pair, or line a deck rail with a whole run of them. Come fall, it comes apart and stores flat until spring.

  • 6 ftof blooming height
  • Dozensof petunias, one footprint
  • Fill onceself-watering reservoir

Why it’s different

Designed like a farm tool, not a gadget.

Every choice on the production version comes from actually growing petunias for a living — and from shipping, storing, and watering them through a mountain summer.

Made in the USA

Molded and sourced here at home. No ocean freight, no mystery factory — just an American-made planter built to last more than one season.

Round, modular — ships flat

The tower stacks in sections that twist apart, so it arrives in a small flat box. Cheap to ship, easy to store in the off-season, simple to set up in minutes.

Self-watering, pocket by pocket

Fill the top reservoir once and water travels down to every tier through planting pockets around the perimeter — plus a base reservoir for scorching July afternoons.

A six-foot column of color

Dozens of petunias bloom from a footprint smaller than a barstool. Lighter than a solid dirt column, and dramatic enough to stop traffic on your porch.

Handcrafted in Idaho

The prototype was built by hand in our New Meadows greenhouse, petunia by petunia, until the cascade was exactly right. This is a mountain-farm product, not a spreadsheet.

Out-towers the rest.

Taller drama than the usual stackable planters, petunia-obsessed, and grown from an Idaho greenhouse instead of a catalog.

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The production version

From a hand-built prototype to a molded tower.

We’re turning the greenhouse prototype into a durable molded planter. Here’s where the design is headed — a few details are still in progress.

Round molded plastic Petunia Tower planted full of petunias, studio view.
Round & molded. A smooth cylindrical body with planting pockets spiraling up every side.
Exploded view of the Petunia Tower showing its modular stacking sections coming apart around a central column.
Modular & flat-packing. Sections lift apart around the central water column, so it ships and stores in a small box.
The Petunia Tower on a porch with an Idaho mountain meadow behind it.
On your porch. Six feet of cascading color wherever you set it down — no garden bed required.

Renders show the in-progress production design. Final molding, color, and hardware may change.

Inside the Mae Flowers greenhouse — rows of vivid petunia hanging baskets down the aisle, mountains beyond.
Mae Flowers goat badge logo.

Grown in New Meadows

A family farm that builds its own tools.

Mae Flowers is a small family flower farm in the Idaho mountains near McCall. We grow hanging baskets and cut flowers, sell them every week at the McCall and Donnelly farmers markets, and — when we needed a bigger greenhouse — we built it ourselves, by hand.

The Petunia Tower started the same way: a prototype welded and wrapped and planted in that greenhouse, tended by two dedicated quality-control managers, our greenhouse dogs Dewy & Deets.

The vintage yellow Mae Flowers truck with its goat logo, bed loaded with petunia baskets.
Market day, the old way.
The hand-built tower shell standing in the greenhouse doorway, plants growing from its pockets.
Building the first tower.
Shannon Kershaw, founder of Mae Flowers, in her greenhouse among the petunias.

Meet the founder

“I just wanted a tower of petunias tall enough to stop you in your tracks — so I built one in our greenhouse. Now I’d love to see one blooming on porches all over Idaho.”

Shannon Kershaw · Mae Flowers

Join the waitlist

Be first in line when the Petunia Tower launches.

It’s not for sale yet — we’re building the first production run. Tell us where to reach you and what you’d grow, and you’ll get the launch note before anyone else.

No cost to join. No spam. Just one email when the tower is ready to ship.