A colorful hanging basket creates a summer mood. There are different models with which you can design a hanging basket. When choosing plants, pay attention to their light requirements.
Hanging flowers in particular look good in hanging baskets
models
Closed pots are made of ceramic, plastic, metal or clay. Place a layer of potsherds or expanded clay (£15.00) in the planter to create drainage. It ensures that the excess irrigation water can drain well from the substrate. Sensitive roots do not come into contact with waterlogging. At the same time, the water collected at the bottom of the pot can be sucked up again by the substrate. With clay pots, the water evaporates through the pores in the material. The escaping moisture offers mosses and lichens good growth conditions, so you should clean the clay pot regularly.
Open models consist of a wire mesh made of rattan or macrame. Before planting, line the wire mesh with fir branches, moss or burlap. The layer prevents the soil from trickling out of the basket later. Line the bottom of the basket with a waterproof film that you have pierced a few holes in beforehand. As a result, the irrigation water does not immediately flow out of the hanging basket.
Suitable plants
The closed hanging basket is planted from the center outwards. If the planter is to hang in the sun, you can plant hussar's head or cape flower in the center and fill the edge with species that cascade down over the edge. Lantana, blue fan flowers, ducat flowers, oleanders and purslanes grow in sunny places.
A contrasting arrangement for the penumbra:
- snowflake flower in the middle
- Laurel rose and coleus on the edge
- Ivy and incense as a dark green change
When planting the open hanging basket, start with the hanging plants, which you insert laterally through the lattice bars. Then fill the container with substrate until all the root balls are covered. Then plant the vessel from above. Begin with the taller species placed in the middle. Meal sage, vanilla flower, industrious Lizzie or faithful to men are suitable for this. The slightly hanging species such as petunias and magic bells or geraniums and fuchsias are marginalized.
Fill the planter with potting soil and gently press the soil down. The roots need contact with the earth. Pour the arrangement thoroughly.