Hanging Basket Plant

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    Just wondering, you see some professional & amateur h/baskets with very long non flowering plants at the bottom ,usually. Am I right in thinking they are Variegated Nepeta?
    Sometimes they hang up to 2-3 feet below the basket.
     
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      Yes variegated Nepeta I will put a photo up showing mine from a year or two ago

      thats just 4 separate plants

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        Yes that is the plant Spuce.Went out yesterday and purchased 4 plants in pots. It was not till I got home and removed them from pots I was not going to get them through holes in h/basket.
        I had to split them and ended up with 16:huh:
         
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          They split very easily trogre.
          I am trying Dichondra silver falls this year instead off Nepeta . Google photo below . I bought plugs from Brookside ( the seeds are stupidly expensive ) but I have now seen them for sale in garden centres.

          PS : Does anyone know what the silver plant in the centre is ?

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            great you got some , make sure you pinch them out when the get to about 12 inches long .

            Take cuttings late summer and keep frost free over winter , I then use those stock plants to take cuttings in March.

            look forward to your photos
             
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              Possibly Cineraria Harry ... what a lovely display!

              PS Spruce beat me to it as I lost my connection! Love your hanging basket too Spruce. :spinning:
               
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                Thanks Victoria , Spruce
                is the leaf form not different to Cineraria , the plant above is a flat leaf ? Both are a lovely colour though

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                It is cineraria - cineraria cirrus as opposed to the maritima silver dust variety
                 
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                  Thanks FC and all , that's another one added to my wish list !
                   
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