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How to make the perfect spring or summer Hanging Basket?
Could anyone recommend the perfect spring or summer basket and what plants they would consist of. Challenge or what?
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In article , gb gardener
wrote: Could anyone recommend the perfect spring or summer basket and what plants they would consist of. Challenge or what? Best spring choices seem to be highly foriferous annuals, & I hope someone will give you a list if spring/summer is the only time you want your baskets to look good. For myself I prefer perennial hanging baskets that have year-round features. For year-round hanging baskets I would recommend any of the more highly ornate dwarf-leaf variegated & ruffled English ivies. They look perfect even in winter. Fuchsia magellanica blooms all summer & all autumn (here in Zone 8 anyway) but may need trimming back at some point in winter when it gets scruffy; the new spring growth of 'Aurea' & variegated forms of F. magellanica are highly colored long before blooming (leaves tend to turn a more normal green when the red flowers appear). There are also a couple very fine & easily obtained variegated forms of Vinca major which will hang from baskets as lengthily as desired, & remain good-looking through winter. For a low-maintence rarely-watered hanging basket, Delosperma herbeum the White Iceplant will fill a basket & spill over the sides within a year. It's white flowers will occur spring through autumn. It needs full sun. Common Delosperma cooperi also flowers late spring through early autumn, then in winter the succulent chains dangling from a basket take on orange & pink hues. Some other iceplants like Delosperma ecklonis don't have as long a bloom period but still look good spilling out of a pot or basket with year-round presence. I have eight different iceplants in pots & the one most persistent in flower is D. herbeum. Another dangly succulment that looks good all-year outdoors is Sedum sarmentosum, graveyard or stringy stonecrop, though it flowers only in spring. -paghat the ratgirl -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot." -Thomas Jefferson |
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paghat, what an awesome reply if you could give more advice on hanging baskets that would be much appreciated or if i could even bounce some ideas of you about them that be great, you will get me a thanks
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