Hanging Baskets

Greenhouse Plants for Hanging Baskets

Posted in Container Gardening, Greenhouse Gardening, Hanging Baskets on July 12th, 2011 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
Hanging baskets, suspended from the roof of your greenhouse, are an excellent answer to the eternal roblem of drindling shelf space in the greenhouse. And, in fact, many plants are seen at their best displayed in this way. Do make sure, first of all, that your greenhouse roof will support the weight of your hanging baskets; remember that, after watering, a container may be Read more ...

Gardening Tips for Watering Hanging Flower Baskets

Posted in Gardening Ideas, Hanging Baskets on October 8th, 2010 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
Importance of Watering Hanging Flower Baskets I have found that when making up a hanging flower basket of permanent plants, such as ivy, it is a good plan to leave the basket standing on the ground in a shady place for a week or two after planting. This encourages good rooting to take place if the basket is watered carefully and saves the plants being rocked about Read more ...

Caring for Your Hanging Flower Basket

Posted in Gardening Ideas, Hanging Baskets on October 6th, 2010 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
Container Gardening Ideas Hanging Flower Basket Care As only a few pounds of compost, at most, can be accommodated in the average hanging flower basket, window planter, or other gardening container, and this will be the only support the plants will have, it is obviously sound practice to use good compost so that they grow well right from the start. Too many people Read more ...

Container Gardening Ideas – Window Planters – Colour Schemes

Posted in Container Gardening, Gardening Ideas, Hanging Baskets, Window Boxes on October 6th, 2010 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
Creating Colour Schemes for Window Planters, and Garden Pots and Planters When walking along a short residential street, a square or a close, or even when looking up at a block of flats, it would be nice to see some overall colour scheme for their window planters, hanging flower baskets or other plantings. For individualists, however, there are plenty of ideas to Read more ...

Container Gardening Ideas – Unusual Hanging Flower Baskets

Posted in Gardening Ideas, Hanging Baskets on October 1st, 2010 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
Hanging flower baskets need not necessarily be of wire. They can be of wickerwork and it is quite possible that the first ones were of plaited or woven rush or cane. Deepish baskets with carrying handles, woven from natural materials, can make original and useful containers for use under the cover of a porch, sunroom, etc., hanging from either a beam or a wall. Many interesting Read more ...

Discover the Beauty of Hanging Flower Baskets – Container Gardening

Posted in Gardening Ideas, Hanging Baskets on October 1st, 2010 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
Container Gardening - Beautiful Hanging Flower Baskets Think of a hanging flower basket, and I expect you think at once, as indeed most of us do, of an open mesh wire basket of blue lobelia, red or pink geranium, and fuchsia, high in the air. These wire baskets are bought in their thousands every spring by gardeners keen to start container gardening early, and are Read more ...

Hanging Flower Baskets and Container Gardening

Posted in Container Gardening, Gardening Ideas, Hanging Baskets, Window Boxes on September 30th, 2010 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
Designs and Trends In Container Gardening Perhaps it was the last war, when every bit of land was needed for food production, which brought the small stirrings of a renewed interest in container gardening for flowers and ornamental plants. Most homes today, with their small gardens, or because they have no garden at all, possess at least one plant in a pot, and Read more ...

Colour Co-ordinate Window Flower Boxes/Garden Pots and Planters

Posted in Container Gardening, Gardening Ideas, Hanging Baskets, Window Boxes on September 2nd, 2010 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
Container Gardening Ideas Colour Co-Ordinate Your Garden Pots and Planters We are all individuals and we choose the colours of paintwork, curtains, sunblinds and so on because we like them. We can continue these colours when choosing plants and flowers. It is a good idea when planning hanging flower baskets, window flower boxes, and other garden pots and planters, for Read more ...

How to Make Hanging Flower Baskets Safe

Posted in Gardening Ideas, Hanging Baskets on September 1st, 2010 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
Hanging Flower Baskets Make them Safe People must be able to pass safely under your hanging flower basket, and if either a basket or window box is to be over any kind of pathway, pavement, road, or patio, make doubly sure that it is safely fixed. Just well-grown geraniums look very pretty when displayed like this. Don’t skimp on buying hooks that really are large enough Read more ...

A to Z of Container Garden Plants for Gardening Containers

Posted in Annuals, Biennials, Container Gardening, Gardening Ideas, Hanging Baskets, Perennials, Window Boxes on August 31st, 2010 by Dave Pinkney – Be the first to comment
A to Z of Container Garden Plants for any Garden Containers It would be impossible to list all the plants, of many kinds, which will adapt happily to growing in gardening containers of one sort or another. But here are some which I have found especially useful and attractive: Ajuga (Bugle) Perennial creeping rosettes, mostly producing intense blue flower spikes Read more ...