Now, with a little help from the team at Garden Buildings Direct , take a look at the best plants for hanging baskets Instantly recognisable with their large blooms that hang from thick stems, this is a popular basket and bedding plant. Trailing fuchsias flower throughout the summer and are good in semi-shade as well as in full sun.
Although they mix well with other plants, trailing fuchsias lend themselves to solo planting. Fuchsias are very tough hanging basket plants that are also semi-hardy, so that they can be kept in a frost-free place over winter and grow again the following year. Plant a variety of single colour petunias in a hanging basket and watch how they hang down in huge drifts of colour.
There are many different types of pelargonium, but all make good subjects for hanging baskets. Simply give them a sunny spot and deadhead to keep the blooms coming.
Hanging baskets can be more than a visual garden feature — you can plant edible plants in them too. Bush varieties of cherry tomatoes grow well in hanging baskets — just grow in a sunny spot and feed regularly. Once they start to grow, they offer a nice alternative to traditional flower baskets.
Single coloured varieties, such as Lobelia 'Regatta Midnight Blue' create a dazzling cascade of violet-blue flowers, each with a tiny gleaming white eye while one of the newer varieties, Lobelia 'Hot Pretty Heaven' has been bred to keep flowering all through the summer and produces beautiful bi-coloured blooms of pale blue and white even in the hottest of weather!
A miniature version of the petunia often referred to as 'minitunia', these prolific flowering basket plants are becoming more and more popular every year. The long lasting and free flowering plants are just as vigorous as their larger cousins but are absolutely covered in much smaller, dainty flowers. Calibrachoa are tolerant to summer showers and will grow really well in both sun and shade, making them ideal for growing in a duller area of the garden that needs cheering up!
Varieties such as 'Mini Rosebud Romantic Peachy' will delight you with its delicate flowers of peach and pink, each with contrasting veining and as a bonus, they don't even need dead-heading, they literally look after themselves! For a true kaleidoscope of colour, try Minitunia 'Kabloom Mixed' , which as its name suggests, explodes with colour during the summer months! A traditional summer bedding plant that is known by all gardeners, old and new, geraniums are drought tolerant, tough plants that grow well in hanging baskets where sometimes watering is 'overlooked'.
Often seen in their bright red form in varieties such as Geranium 'Best Red' F1 Hybrid , these easy to grow plants are now available in a variety of colours and have also been bred to trail well over the side of a hanging basket.
Geranium 'GeRainbow Mixed' has cascades of colour and larger blooms and look incredible as they fill a hanging basket with bright blooms. The Geranium 'Rosebud Collection' will also trail down at least 45cm and are so named because the blooms never fully open and so always seem to look like rosebuds waiting to flower, a wonderful sight indeed!
Osteospermum are naturally drought tolerant which makes them ideal for baskets and pots. Normal African Daisies can also be planted in hanging baskets as their spreading habit will make them spill over the edge of the basket and form more of a ball shape, planting up a basket with the Osteospermum 3D Collection will definitely give you a display of unusual and extremely attractive flowers! For a plant that's incredibly easy to grow from seed and can grow up to cm long, then why not try nasturtiums in your baskets?
The colour variety is phenomenal from creamy white to deep maroon and loads in between, including some that actually change colour! Whilst some Nasturtiums, such as 'Dwarf Compact Mixed' will stay relatively small although still enough to fill a basket! This combo will do best in a part sun location. Sweet potato vine Ipomoea batatas 'Margarita' — 1.
Here's a great example of how unusual annual plants can add lots of interest to your hanging basket. Old-fashioned impatiens and wax begonias are no-fail choices for shade —but in this basket, they're enhanced by purple-leaf alternanthera and purple-flowering torenia. All of these plants will do well in part shade. Test Garden Tip: Some of our favorite hanging basket plants with great foliage include coleus , sweet potato vine , dichondra , and plectranthus.
Bold and bright—what's not to enjoy about a red, white, and blue combo? Use lush, trailing plants like these to overflow a traditional hanging basket and eventually cover it with a skirt of eye-catching color. This basket grows best in full sun. Calibrachoa 'Cabaret Purple' — 2. Verbena 'Aztec Cherry Red' — 1. Snapdragon Antirrhinum 'Bells White' — 2. While geraniums and petunias are classic favorites, don't be afraid to take a chance with a new plant to create one-of-a-kind baskets your friends will ooh-and-ahh over.
Here, butterfly orchid, an underused but long-blooming tomato relative, does the job perfectly. This colorful combo will prefer a shady spot, and will stop blooming once summer heat sets in. Test Garden Tip: Always check the growing conditions that an unfamiliar plant needs so you can be sure it's appropriate for the location you have in mind. Create a "wow" moment by using colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. Here, for example, rich purple makes a stunning contrast to golden-chartreuse.
Plus you'll get the bonus of the wonderful scent— heliotrope is one of the most fragrant flowers you can use in hanging baskets. Place this basket in full sun to part shade. Licorice plant Helichrysum petiolare 'Limelight' — 2. Heliotrope Heliotropium 'Marine' — 2. Vinca major 'Wojo's Jem' — 3. Create a container that's as pleasing to your nose as it is your eyes by using fragrant plants. This combo mixes the spicy scent of dianthus with the subtle sweetness of viola for a basket you'll want next to a window or on your deck or patio.
Test Garden Tip: Other top picks for fragrance include heliotrope , sweet alyssum , and nicotiana. Osteospermum 'Serenity Sunburst' — 3. Viola 'Sorbet Purple Duet' — 4. Dianthus 'Cinnamon Red Hots' — 2. Small baskets can create as big an impact as larger ones—you just need to pick the right plants. The secret for success is to go for plants that stay smaller but have colorful leaves like coleus and variegated varieties of favorites like vinca.
Add in an impatiens, and you'll have a colorful basket sure to brighten a shady spot all summer long. Vinca 'Variegata' — 1.
New Guinea impatiens Impatiens 'Sonic White' — 1. Coleus Solenostemon 'Trailing Plum' — 1. Here's a tip for saving money when creating hanging baskets: Use what you have. Many houseplants grow well outdoors in a shaded spot. Rex begonias , for example, play off each other to great effect. In fall, bring them back indoors to enjoy them for the winter season.
You can't go wrong decorating a shady nook with the rose-like flowers of tuberous begonia and double impatiens. They'll add that little something extra to your hanging basket and keep on blooming all summer long. Look for double impatiens in a wide range of colors, from white to pink to red and even bicolors. With their gorgeous shape and graceful hanging blooms, it's no wonder fuchsias are favorites for cool, shady spots.
They're unmatched for their elegance. Fuchsias offer a great bonus, too: Hummingbirds love them. Your baskets don't have to be the same from spring to fall. Keep your display looking great by choosing cool-season plants for spring, such as these violas , then heat-lovers for summer. When temperatures drop in fall, replace your spent summer plants with more cool-season beauties. Test Garden Tip: Cool-season plants will usually stay looking good longer in summer if you grow them in a shaded spot.
Viola 'Cutie Pie' — Let your hanging baskets reflect your personality by filling them with your favorite color. Here's a fun combination for fans of all things pink : begonias, impatiens, and sweet alyssum in various shades, set off with a few white impatiens. Hang these beauties in a shady spot, then stand back and watch the show. Tuberous begonia Begonia Nonstop Pink — 1.
Impatiens 'Fanfare Fuchsia' — 2. Impatiens 'Dazzler White' — 3. Sweet alyssum Lobularia 'Snow Crystals' — 4. You can't go wrong with any of the petunias in the Wave series for tons of flower power on an easy-to-grow plant that thrives in full sun.
One of our favorites is Easy Wave Blue—its deep purple-blue tones make it a showstopper by itself or combine it with softer, lighter colors for a bit of contrast.
Petunia Easy Wave Blue — 1. Calibrachoa 'Cabaret White' — 2. Diascia 'Salmon Supreme' — 2. A lavender-blue streptocarpella an African violet relative, actually is intriguing enough that your guests won't be able to resist taking a closer look. This nonstop bloomer is a perfect companion for anything orange or yellow—such as the glowing orange osteospermum here.
This basket will do best in a part shade location. Test Garden Tip: Streptocarpella can make a great houseplant at the end of the growing season. Just pinch off tips of new growth before the first frost and stick them in a little potting soil.
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