Hanging basket Collection
For home gardeners, one of the attractions of the hanging basket is it allows us to utilize vertical space while also adding an extra element to the landscape. For those responsible for beautifying our urban areas, the hanging basket, with its instant impact, is a major part of the greenscape in many of our cities and towns.
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Lock N Load Hangers
Lock N Load Hangers are a hassle free hanger that will allow you to hang items from the 1 ¼" to 1 ½" pickets of your porch or deck railing without the use of any nails or fasteners. Now you can hang wind chimes, bird feeders, hanging plants, etc.
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When designing your hanging basket consider several things: choice of plants – including the colours – and their required care, secure hanging and appropriate location. Select plants that have similar water and light requirements. Consider colours that offer good contrast – such as yellow and blue – or plants with analogous colours – such as silver and white. Plants with interesting foliage contribute their own tones, as well as complementing the flowering varieties. The size of the plants when fully grown is also key to the proportion of the basket: generally, the mature plants should be at least twice as big as the container.
Choose a suitable location and take special care to secure the hanging basket – remember that when watered it can weigh from 13.5 kg to 36 kg, depending on its size, its soil type and how much moisture the basket retains. Claude advises those who attend his annual Hanging Basket Course to hang the basket on a swivel hook to make watering easier and to allow the basket to be rotated so that all the plants get their fair share of sun. Make sure that the hook is sturdy.
