18” hay basket with 5 plants. Too many, do you think? Whether intentional or not, crammed exuberance seems to be my planting style. There’s only one petunia in the chimney pot.
Hi afficionadas, what is the consensus on how many RV to put? Is 3-5 for a large hanging basket too many? I saw someone put only three in a whole planter. I'm hoping to go for Killi's look of whole beds filled with just RV (pics below). And do you find full sun to be best and give best results? All your thoughts welcome.
I don't have many RV plants at the moment, so I want to place them to best effect. I will try taking cuttings later.
I have 1 metre troughs on the fence and put 3 in total ( 2 red velour and 1 silver tidal wave ) in and lots of other plants , Red / silver velour soon swamped everything and filled the trough out in no time . The silver ones colour varies some are a pale lilac and others silver with a hint of lilac in the centre.
My red velour cutting are coming on but they have a tendency to grow upwards unlike it mother plant , I pinch them out multiple times but I don't think its going to make a difference.
I am growing a few other wave seeds this year , Tie dye purple with a splash of white and lavender sky blue as well as silver and of course red velour cuttings
@Perki do you think one RV per metre is enough to fill it?
Has anyone found they are a favourite of slugs when grown in beds or borders? I have only grown them in pots and baskets today, but would like to go over to raised beds....
It probably could fill it @fire but it be the end of the season which kind of defeats the objective in a way , I'd plant at least 2 ideally 3 if you really want to fill out the space.
@Fire, the photo above is of plants growing mostly upwards. I have about 4 plants in a container (an old washing copper about 15” high with drainage holes drilled in the bottom which I found buried in the garden). The copper sits on a bed which has a retaining timber edge and stands 6” above the brick path. The plants are therefore tumbling down by nearly 2’ and growing upwards by around 4’, hoisting themselves upwards courtesy of a callicarpa bush just behind. The berry display this Autumn was pretty poor but the pay off was worth it.
Geranium Rozanne and Patricia grow to the right of the Red Velour and intermingle.
Incidentally, I did have a three spare RV which I put in a 12” hanging basket. It wasn’t a success because the plants were quite straggly and their propensity for growing upwards meant the unattractive base of the basket was fairly exposed. But blame me and not the plants - I should have been more attentive to the watering and done more pinching out.
Editing this to add a photo sequence from last summer that might interest you, Fire.
May 24th (there’s zero chance that this season’s RV will look like that in just 10 days’ time)
I have had small (c. 2”) plants eaten by slugs or snails. This was Blue Denim, another plant in the Wave series. I now wait till my petunias have fully filled their 7/9cm pots before planting them out and they cope without any trouble. Note that my garden is not badly troubled by slugs but we do have an abundance of snails.
Ben, it's fascinating that you find that they don't trail so well, but like to climb. I guess mine were happy to try and do both. You have used yours to such beautiful effect. It's cleverly done.
I don't think they would survive my slugs if planted in a bed.
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My red velour cutting are coming on but they have a tendency to grow upwards unlike it mother plant , I pinch them out multiple times but I don't think its going to make a difference.
I am growing a few other wave seeds this year , Tie dye purple with a splash of white and lavender sky blue as well as silver and of course red velour cuttings
Geranium Rozanne and Patricia grow to the right of the Red Velour and intermingle.
Incidentally, I did have a three spare RV which I put in a 12” hanging basket. It wasn’t a success because the plants were quite straggly and their propensity for growing upwards meant the unattractive base of the basket was fairly exposed. But blame me and not the plants - I should have been more attentive to the watering and done more pinching out.
Editing this to add a photo sequence from last summer that might interest you, Fire.
May 24th (there’s zero chance that this season’s RV will look like that in just 10 days’ time)
June 23rd
July 12th
July 29th
August 9th