I like hanging baskets in theory and window boxes and troughs and pots and other sorts of container planting - as long as they're not garish combos of colours or full of plants I loathe such as begonias and busies and painted heathers and so on.
However; I think I may well abandon summer hanging baskets on the sunny side of our house as they just get to hot and dry and windblown. I already use the two brackets by the garage doors for hanging bird feeders but I may decide to have one last go at a winter basket with variegated ivies and so on for the front door.
On the north side I've had success with baskets of trailing fuchsias which I love but fuchsia chappy wasn't at the plant fair in May so I've just had the old plants growing in a trough up on a shelf under the back kitchen window this year and peanut feeders where the baskets usually go either side of the French windows.
On the whole, rather more entertaining and a lot less bovver.
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I have so many baskets and tubs/pots etc, I couldn't count them. I grow everything from seeds, except the pelargoniums and fuchsias, and they are from cuttings. I love it.
My patio is as big as my house, it's full of tubs.
they are dead headed twice a day, and fed once a week. The baskets are finished all but a few stragglers, tubs still blooming. Where else would you find plants to give you colour from Spring to Autumn.
i don't think it's a man thing though, my OH isn't keen.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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They're God awful. I feel sorry for them being smothered in shit. Pansies in a basket though.. do I bother?
"they're God awful"
sums it up for me.
Not even bothering with the whole " quotes" thingy. I always mess it up.
Ah fair enough! I'm New on here so I won't judge
rofl.
sorry
you're more than welcome Linny.
Cheers!
Wonder if Mr hargreaves will ever have baskets again..
I sincerely hope not. Sorry Mr Hargreaves.
they're more bother than they're worth. Honest.
I like hanging baskets in theory and window boxes and troughs and pots and other sorts of container planting - as long as they're not garish combos of colours or full of plants I loathe such as begonias and busies and painted heathers and so on.
However; I think I may well abandon summer hanging baskets on the sunny side of our house as they just get to hot and dry and windblown. I already use the two brackets by the garage doors for hanging bird feeders but I may decide to have one last go at a winter basket with variegated ivies and so on for the front door.
On the north side I've had success with baskets of trailing fuchsias which I love but fuchsia chappy wasn't at the plant fair in May so I've just had the old plants growing in a trough up on a shelf under the back kitchen window this year and peanut feeders where the baskets usually go either side of the French windows.
On the whole, rather more entertaining and a lot less bovver.
I have so many baskets and tubs/pots etc, I couldn't count them. I grow everything from seeds, except the pelargoniums and fuchsias, and they are from cuttings. I love it.
My patio is as big as my house, it's full of tubs.
they are dead headed twice a day, and fed once a week. The baskets are finished all but a few stragglers, tubs still blooming. Where else would you find plants to give you colour from Spring to Autumn.
i don't think it's a man thing though, my OH isn't keen.