I'm sure this has been done, but I can't find it :(

Anybody got any recommendations for where to buy plants for hanging baskets?

Special offers are particularly welcome :thumbsup:



Oh, and what plants would be welcome too ;)

B&Q and trailing plants are best....petunias, million bells, lobelia etc

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I planted mine up beginning of May and put them in the Greenhouse - they are beautiful now!!

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Still trying to persuade Mr Strix of the merits of a green house, and then there's where to put it :(

*jealous*

Ta for the info :thumbsup:

it's ok chuck - I only have a plastic one I put up for 8 weeks of the year....not a glass one...with 3 boys and countless footballs in the garden that would be quite unwise..!

It tends to get very windy up here during the spring.
I did consider the plastic tent, but I had visions of waking up one morning and seeing the trafic trying to skirt round it in the street, or worse still - hearing it on Hallam FM when the clock radio went off :shocked:

aye it is windy up here in Norton but I put bricks on the bottom shelf it has NEVER budged!!

They are only about £20 to £25 and well worth it!!

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Did you get that in B&Q too?

Yeah but about 3/4 years ago - I am sure they still sell them !!

They do a really big one for about £50 but I didn't have the room for it!!

see it here (http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/product/product.jsp?CATID=8050141&entryFlag=false&PRODID=176775)

I have the smaller one!!

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Thanks Shiesh

I should probably find somewhere safe for a more permanent one - I really want to put cherry tomatoes in it, so it will need to be up longer.

Actually, I wonder if Mr Strix is fed up with me cluttering up the kitchen with plants yet :suspect:

Anybody know anywhere else?

On the road that goes to Coal Aston from Jordanthorpe there are two "garden centres", Newleaf, which is more like a propper nursery, and Ferndale, which is more "garden centre", with cards and "gift" and other such crap. Both of them sell hanging basket plants etc.

Strix, you'd better get a move on if you haven't planted up yet.

I wouldn't touch the rubbish from supermarkets unless you are fortunate enough to be there as they are putting fresh stock on the shelves. They have no idea how to keep the plants and don't water them enough. They are often weak and leggy due to lack of light.

Far better to pay more for better plants. For the past three years I've bought mine from Van Dyks on the way to Whitwell. They have good quality, sturdy, healthy stock but you will pay slightly more than from Focus/B&Q type places.

Good trailers are verbeena and training petunia but with both of these you have to be on the ball removing dead heads to continue flowering.

Don't forget some taller plants for the height such as fuchsias or my all time favourite, the geranium. I have seen breathtaking baskets made up entirely of geraniums. The plus points of these plants are that they are virtually disease free, not attacked by greenfly and being from the Med, will go for yonks without water.

Don't forget to feed,feed,feed them and enjoy (but hurry up or all the best plants will be gone)

Cheers Mo :thumbsup:

I suspected that the supermarkets were a duff'n

I wondered whether I'd missed the boat for the garden centres and nurseries though :(

Don't forget Bacopa snowflake.......a beautiful trailing plant.......then there are bidens.......they have a lovely bright yellow star like flower. Trailing fuschia's are another good plant. The all time favourite gap filler is lobelia. You have left it a bit late though. There are still many plants around for baskets.......but they are quite big now so you might find that you can't get as many plants into a basket as you would have done a month or so ago. I make quite a few baskets every year and I normally find out how many are required and order the plants from the growers as early as February. I started making mine up in March/April and have delivered the last one today.
Take heart though........you might not be able to find plants small enough to be able to "side plant" but you should still be able to cram enough into the top in order to create a good cascade of colour. On the plus side.......the bigger plants are better established and so do not need so much of the TLC that the small plants need. Also, once planted the weather is good enough now for you to be able to hang them out straight away without worrying about frosts etc.
Good luck with your plant search and enjoy your baskets when you have made them.

local carboots can be a good source