Baskets and Containers.

im giving my tubs and baskets a bucket of water every other day
how often are other posters watering their plants?

 

Beautiful pics everyone. Don't you just love hanging baskets?
Canucks I don't think you can overcrowd baskets, they look lovely filled to the max!
Hi Cumberland, yes watering is a bit of a pain - I do water mine every day. I try to use the water butt but have to use the hose on which OH has fixed one of those handy watering ends which makes watering all the wall baskets and hanging baskets a little easier!

 

Fantastic selection folks, don't forget to feed flowering baskets and containers weekly, they'll need a good supply of Potassium to keep flowering but you probably know that.

 

I feed mine weekly and water them nearly every day as the baskets and containers dry out quickly

 

Wow Lovely pots and baskets,, Still waiting for most of mine to Flower...













A Xmas Present

 

Daisydee, your pots look gorgeous! I love the tall pots [they are usually quite expensive] and the way you have planted them up. I think they are trailing petunias? Surfinias?

My geraniums and lobelias are at about the same stage as yours -unfortunately my back garden faces North but at least with baskets and pots [the smaller ones] I can move them around [much to the annoyance of OH!]

Do post some more pics.

 

Hi Jazmine, The Trailing plants in the Tall pots are Million Bells, and i can't remember the others as i planted them weeks ago in the Ghouse, The Pots were a bargain in B&Q they were £45 for a set of 2 (no way) but there was a sale on a few weeks later and when i went back there was no barcodes on, so i asked the guy watering the plants how much! and he said.. A fiver.. Woohoo.. So i bought 2 sets hehe.. I would love to see pics of your Pots ... Dee..

 

Hi Dee, wow what a bargain with the pots!! I would have bought some too-they look so elegant. My pots [in my album] are mainly terracotta and the blue glazed ones. I did keep the blue ones at the front until somebody stole one. How kind of them to do that. :(

B and Q do have bargains - I got some 50p trailing petunias and they are looking good!

 

B & Q are great for bargains !!

I was speaking to a guy in there the other week and he said all the plants (esp bedding plants) have week numbers. So for example they have week 1 on display, but by the time it gets to week 3 they redude all week 1's stock to clear .... usually have a few brown bits on by then mind!!

I always think if you can pick up bedding plants in a pack of 6 for 50p/£1 and only 3 of them are ok then it is still way way cheaper than buying them at full cost of sometimes £5 a tray. The big value trays are an excellent buy though i must admit !

Dee - love your pots also. Sadly I would fear them being taken from out the front though :( ...... reminds me of the day my mum was walking home down her street and seen someone in a van outside her house loading her plants up !!!! If she had been ten mins later they would have gone and taken everything!! Needless to say she hardly puts anything out the front now ...... wouldnt mind so much but the man's excuse for trying to steal them was 'he didnt realise they belonged to someone' ...... UMMM in someone's front garden ???? or course they belong to someone !!!! TUT

 

A fiver?! Wow, lucky daisydee.

 

Everything is simply GORGEOUS, and so vibrant!

 

B and Q urns filled with petunias.



hanging basket at the front



front garden- nicotiana and 50p plants!



pots around the pond

 

Oh Kath there Brilliant. Love the hanging basket at the front, its so unusual and the plants look great in it.. Lovely colours...

 

ohhh jazmine how lovely, like them urns they look wonderful, well done
dee yours are beautiful also its wonderful to see some lovely flowers and in such great pots and different containers, well done

 

Thank you for your lovely comments. I believe the urns only cost £5 each but that was a couple of years ago. The only problem with them is that they blow over in the strong winds.
Daisy, I bought colour coordinated from B and Q!!!