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Old 23-10-2002, 11:07 AM
JennyC
 
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Default Union Jack hanging baskets


"Graham" wrote
Hi, Perhaps you are asked this many times a year but I'm looking for

flowers
that will look impressive planted either together in a red, white

and blue
pattern in a hanging basket, or separately in three baskets. Ideally

they
should be as near to the Union Jack colours as possible. Flowering

time is
through July to coincide with our village fair.

Perhaps the blue could be trailing off the sides of the basket with

white
slightly higher and red higher again....?
I'd be immensely grateful if you can help me by suggesting as many

species
as you can so that I can then do some research into flowering

heights, etc.
Cheers, Graham


The first thing to spring to mind is a combination of Blue trailing
Lobelia + white alyssum + red geraniums.

I found these sites for borders :

'modern victory garden' :
http://www.jelleyjar.com/garden/patriotic.html

And a red / white / blue seed mix at :
http://www.earthlygoods.com/mixtures..._blue_mix.html

HTH Jenny