Hanging baskets are a great way to add more variety and structure to your colourful garden. Hanging baskets can be made from things you have at home or simply purchased, then hung around the garden to draw the gaze upward. Put them next to your front door, along an otherwise dull wall in the garden, and mix and match the size and shape of colours for more style. How to Make a Hanging Basket Theoretically,…

If you have hanging baskets sitting around your garden table, but you don’t know what to put in them, consider growing Petunias.  With some initial effort, your garden can come alive with an array of colours all summer and they are perfect for growing in baskets because you don’t need too many plants and they are one of the easier baskets plants to deadhead as the flowers are not ridiculously tiny. You can also get away…

Growing plants in a hanging basket can offer a wonderful array of colours, at heights and levels that ground-based potted plants simply don’t offer. Of course, that comes with the requirement to hang it securely, so that the basket doesn’t fall and it’s important to remember that a large 16-18 inch basket that has just been watered is very heavy. Thankfully this process is rather simple. What you will need You will need a drill, the…

Hanging baskets are a wonderful way to provide a cascade of colour in your garden in multiple areas. A hanging basket can give you layers to what would otherwise be a very flat garden with pots. This layering also gives you the opportunity to plant trailing plants that naturally cascade down and enlivens your space with colour all year round as you can plant baskets in spring that flower throughout summer and then swap them…