A colorful hanging basket creates a summery atmosphere. There are different models with which you can design a hanging basket. When choosing plants, pay attention to their light requirements.
How do you plant a hanging basket correctly?
When planting a hanging basket, you first select suitable plants based on their light requirements. Open models are first fitted with hanging plants on the sides, then planted on top. Closed models are planted from the middle outwards and cascading plants are placed along the edge.
Models
Closed pots are made of ceramic, plastic, metal or clay. Add a layer of pottery shards or expanded clay to the planter to create drainage. It ensures that excess irrigation water can drain easily 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 absorbed back into the substrate. With clay pots, the water evaporates through the pores in the material. The escaping moisture provides good growth conditions for mosses and lichens, 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 pine branches, moss or burlap. The layer prevents the soil from falling out of the basket later. Line the bottom of the basket with a waterproof film in which you first pierce a few holes. This means that 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 you want the planter to hang in the sun, you can plant hussar's head or cape flower in the center and fill the edge with species that grow cascade-like down over the edge. Lantana, blue fan flowers, ducat flower, oleander and purslane grow in sunny places.
A contrasting arrangement for the partial shade:
- 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 that you insert on the side through the bars. Then fill the container with substrate until all root balls are covered. Then plant the container from above. Start with the taller growing species placed in the middle. Meal sage, vanilla flower, busy lieschen or men's faithful are suitable for this. The slightly hanging species such as petunias and magic bells or geraniums and fuchsias are placed on the edge.
Fill the planter with potting soil and gently press the soil down. The roots need contact with the earth. Water the arrangement thoroughly.
