Winter Hanging Basket

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My friend Dawn and I recently attended a hanging basket class at my local garden centre; we do them every 6 months and it’s really enjoyable. We missed the summer one, thinking that we’d do our own and save some money…

We both bought plenty of plants but neither of us got around to making a basket; my plants went into the garden instead and hers died. We’ll be doing the class twice a year from now on…

For anyone who would like to do one, here’s what I used.
• 14" basket
• Moss (nearly a whole bag of moss was used)
• Compost with water-retaining gel mixed in (as apparently even with all our winter rain, a lot of baskets are kept slightly sheltered and can still dry out).
• 3 mini daffodils tucked in the middle
• 4 pansies midway up, around the outside
Then on the top I have, a bronze sedge in the middle with 2 Lysimachia, 2 Gaultheria (called the germolene plant from the scent and flavour of the flowers) around the sedge. In-between these I planted 4 more pansies. Quite packed but I’m hoping it will give me a lovely display until early summer.

A bonus of a winter basket is that apart from the pansies, everything else will go into a large pot in May to make a perennial show for many years to come, so I think, excellent value for money.

• 8 Oct, 2009
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