Hanging and Wall Baskets

People like greenery, not everyone has a garden in their home or backyard, and you also don`t need to have a large garden with full of flower beds to fulfill your wish or to enjoy the wonderful colours of plants during the spring and summer. All you need is the desire and wish so by using hanging or wall baskets even in a patio garden you can create a colorful display. Hanging baskets are nice to look, they are nothing unusual but designed to hang from a wall bracket or from under an overhang, on the other hand wall baskets have a flat side so that the half round basket can be fitted to a wall - wall baskets have advantages over hanging baskets where the position is exposed to the wind and can be lower mounted for easy maintenance.

Hanging and wall baskets are available in the market so you can easily buy ready planted hanging and wall baskets, so you need to do after buying is just hang them up and keep them watered if you want you can make make your own basket using your favorite trailing and bedding plants which is easy to make.

Hanging basket frames are either mad of metal or plastic, they usually include three chains attached so that it can be suspended. Wall baskets are also made of either plastic or metal and are available.

Do remember that before you start filling a basket, be sure that the basket is in a stable position.

Before you start planting line the basket . Some baskets come pre-lined, or you could use a pre-formed liner. To reduce watering requirements you can add a polythene lining at the base of the baskets . Fill the basket with half of some hanging basket compost. After that press the compost into the basket and make several slits in the liner around the upper edges of the basket.

In the middle of the basket plant one or two fair sized plants. Arrange trailing plants around the edge of the basket such as trailing fuchsia, lobelia. After that thread the root ball through the slits in the polythene so that the stems comfortably hang over the edge.

After you are done with planting then soak the basket thoroughly and allow it to drain, then to enable the plants to become established keep the compost damp and then leave the basket for a couple of week in a position out of the wind.

Make the mounting bracket strong and firm before putting the basket in position because a well watered hanging basket is quite heavy.

The amount of watering required totally depend on where the basket is positioned, even of it is not directly under the sun