Wat een leuk idee!  

It's jewelry for green thumbs': Designer's business blossoms thanks to rings and necklaces that contain living plants

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 23:03 GMT, 13 January 2014 | UPDATED: 10:56 GMT, 14 January 2014

‘Jewelry for green thumbs’ is how Colleen Jordan, an Atlanta-based industrial designer, describes her 'wearable planter' creations.

The range of small 3-D printed vases allow you to cart a small flower, fern, or plant around in the form of a necklace, brooch, or even a bicycle embellishment.

The designs, are drip-proof to avoid soiling wearers' clothes and are priced between $22 and $45 on Etsy.

Scroll down for video

+8

Green thumb to-go: Colleen Jordan's wearable planters allow jewelry and gardening connoisseurs to fuse their two passions

+8

For every taste: Miss Jordan offers wearable planters in the shapes of rings, brooches, necklaces, and bicycle attachments

Offerings include rings, necklaces, bicycle attachments, and brooches that let ‘little plants live on your lapels’ [sic] - in a range of shapes and colors.

Miss Jordan, 26, advises shoppers to use the designs to grow tiny succulents or to hold a few fresh flower buds.

She founded the company in 2011 while studying industrial design at Georgia Tech.

+8

+8

Riding dirty: Miss Jordan's bike designs allow cycling enthusiasts to install a mobile garden on their ride

+8

Etsy career: Wearable planters is Miss Jordan's full-time job and she has already sold nearly 2,000 through Etsy

+8

Green finger: Diamond-shaped rings let wearers tote around a bit of moss on their hand

‘I wasn’t really happy with my final project for school so started on my own side project,’ she told MailOnline of creating her company.

In just a few years’ time her wearable planters concept has ‘blossomed’ from an extra-curricular activity to a full-time career.

In less than three years she has made nearly 1,900 sales through Etsy, and also hawks her designs through her own website as well as Fabb.com. 

See how easy it is to build your Wearable Planter

+8

For buds: Miss Jordan advises shoppers to grow tiny succulents in the planters or to fill them with a few flower buds

+8

Little pitcher: While many of Miss Jordan's designs are geared towards women, she is currently trying to develop planters that would be appreciated by men as well

This spring, she’ll introduce wearable planters at four Urban Outfitters stores strewn across the country.

Currently, Miss Jordan is working to devise more masculine wearable planter designs that would be well-liked by men.

'Im just really excited when anyone likes them,' she said.