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Hanging Basket Planting Advice & Care
Plants Plus aim not only to provide the best possible quality hanging basket plants and unique designs of hanging basket sets.
As a leading hanging basket plant supplier, Plants Plus also aims to give you lots of useful advice on caring for your hanging basket as well.
Plants Plus sell quality bedding and container plants online by mail order. One of the most common uses for our plants is in creating eye catching hanging basket displays in the garden. Here's the Plants Plus guide to planting your hanging basket...
Hanging basket practical planting guide:
To create your hanging basket you will need:
Now follow these simple instructions to plant up your hanging basket:
- Place your hanging basket onto a clear work surface, making sure that the hanging chain is outside the basket.
- Add a small amount of compost, and mix in the water retaining gel according to the packet instructions. The gel swells up when wet, reducing the need for frequent watering. Then add more compost.
- Now add the plants. Starting with a feature centre plant, add the whole layer of plants, adding more compost as you go so that each plant has plenty of space to grow.
- When you have finished planting your hanging basket, water very well. Winter baskets can be hung outside straight away, but if you want the plants to establish first place the basket in a greenhouse or conservatory for a few days.
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Thu 11 Oct 2007
Whilst freestanding pots and tubs decorate the garden at ground level, hanging baskets introduce a new dimension to container gardening with charm, interest and a softening quality at eye level and above.
In the garden itself they can be suspended from the cross-beam of a pergola (check for strength of support before fixing) or you might even build a simple system of uprights and cross beams in an L shape. This is a particularly useful device in a new garden or one where there are few mature trees and plants because it creates an instant opportunity for plant interest above eye level when every-thing around seems rather flat.
In this setting, a series of baskets set at different levels in irregular, random pattern would be an eye-catching feature right through the summer, and possibly in winter months too if you choose some of the year round plants which are often available, such as winter pansies, evergreen ivy, dwarf conifer, sage and thyme.
Suspended from a wall bracket, hanging baskets can decorate a porch or house wall, a balcony or veranda and even a garage or rather unattractive outbuilding. Even an unattractive concrete shed can undergo a visual transformation thanks to the use of hanging baskets.