HANGING BASKETS AND WINDOW BOXES- BITS AND BOBS 2016

I think you're referring to one of the trailing lobelias.

 

Aye, that is the one - beautiful colour.

 

Trailing lobelias do very well in hanging baskets.

 

They are a bit of a sod from seed though, aren't they?

 

All you've got to do is pay out for pots, compost and spend the time nurturing them - and then find people to sell them to at 80p a pot. Then you start getting rich

 

I don't think I am dedicated enough to produce in real bulk - by the time I raise my lot and get them out, I am about demented with plants

 

Then, 80p a go from the nursery seems a good idea and 100% successful Works for me

 

Any idea what I could use as a water wick?

I am thinking about attaching a half Coke bottle to the underside of my baskets (so about 1L capacity) with cable ties, having a short length of hose coming up to the surface of the basket for filling, and some sort of wick that will take the water up into the basket - but what would work as a wick?

 

Thanks @Sheal - I nearly died when I saw the 10000 seeds, but then realised that at around 1 gram, that means the seeds must be like dust, so if I do them I will sow them with silver sand across a couple of trays in my prop.

 

All my sowing is done indoors (greenhouse) so wind hopefully won't be an issue - - I have an old Saxa white pepper pot that is idea for putting fine seeds into and then mixing with silver sand to sprinkle on top of the compost. The seeds are only a couple of quid, so worth a shot I suppose. If they fail, I can always pick up some trailing lobelia from the garden centre

 

@HarryS - I have ordered 1000 Petunia SuperCascade F1 pelleted seeds, and 500 Petunia Picobella Star F1 pelleted seeds (the Picobella being the 'upright' variety) - these are coming from Moles, and to be fair to them the seedlings I got off their petunia seeds last year were better than the plugs that I got from T&M. I have a load of 180 cell trays which I use for germination, and then they are popped out into 40 or 60 cell trays thereafter.

I am also going to try Lobelia Crimson Fountains - should be fun pricking that lot out!