Hanging Basket Stuffers


Hanging Baskets, Plant Material / Saturday, May 16th, 2015
Basket Stuffer - Snapdragon
Trailing Snapdragon

I love to make hanging baskets.  I know they require a large number of plants to make them stand out, but with continuous watering, dead heading and fertilizing, you are rewarded.  

Some of my favourite basket stuffers that I like to use are nemesia, calibrachoa, verbena and one that I always fall back on is lobelia, particularly the white variety.  I do like the smaller trailing petunias too and a new stuffer that I have found recently is a trailing snapdragon.  

Hanging Basket Stuffers

Deep Red Calabrochia
Ruby Red Calibrachoa
Nemesia and Lobelia
Nemesia and Lobelia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rosy pink nemesia
Rosy pink nemesia
Lemon Nemesia
Lemon Nemesia

Osteospermums

Feature Plants

I usually place 2 to 3 upright feature plants in the basket before putting all the stuffers in.  The plants I use depend on whether it is going to be a basket in a sunny spot or a part shady spot.  Typically I would use geraniums (ivy type you can plant along the edge of basket and the variegated type contrasts well), osteospermums or marguerites for the “sunny” basket.  Fuschias and begonias I use for baskets in part shade areas.  

Prize giveaway basket contains two types of geraniums, white marguerite, lemon nemesia, mauve lobelia, white bacopa; suitable for sunny location.  Hot colours – red, orange and yellow.
Basket contains geranium, blue and white trailing lobelia, trailing nasturtium.
Basket contains geranium, blue and white trailing lobelia, trailing nasturtium and trailing petunia. This basket is in a part sun/shade location with cooler colours.

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