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I'm getting ready (shortly) to remove my summer hanging baskets - any ideas on what to stick in them apart from pansies? I have a couple of those Elizabethan type to fill up

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Suzie

I put asparagus peas in mine last year - they lasted until about Feb before giving up the ghost.

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oh I say - that sounds a good idea. Mine are in a windy location, will they withstand that do you think? And when did you sow?

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Suzie

I have started to replant my baskets have some with winter pansies with spring bulbs ready to pop through.

Polyanthus is a nice show with grape hyacinths .

If you like could be all foliage which is great effect.

And I like to pot up a xmas hanging basket with if you can get small plants with red berries you can always replant into garden after,trailing ivy
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This image gives you an idea except for the washed look basket it did not stand up to the weather ,would not buy these again.

I sowed them about now I believe, just as the harvest was underway. The were on a east facing wall but I suppose a little sheltered. What was amazing was they lasted so long, and were still giving out lovely little red flowers all winter. Even though the first frosts, they battled on.

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Andrea :wavehello

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...logs/zazen999/

moon trials completed:
tomatoes
[46% increase in crop per seed sown and 10% increase in crop per plant]

currently underway:
calabrese
garlic

http://linearlegume.blogspot.com/

Bought some reduced mini cyclamen for mine the other day and they'll be planted with some diddy daffs, a winter flowering heather and some pansies. At the end of the winter everything that will survive will be moved into the garden for the following year.

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I planted with :
1) Cotton Lavendar Lemon Fizz and Black leaved Bugle
2) lime green grass (label is out in the garden), Convolvulus and white cyclamen
3) ivy, Wintergreen and red cyclamen

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Suzie

i trimmed all my summer stuff down last week, ready to dump everything cos they finished flowering ...... a few days later they had loads of buds again, so i might have mine a bit longer yet.

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I have one of those three tier basket stands bought as a present a few years ago and have always wondered what to put in it apart from pansies. I also have 7 hanging baskets and two halve wall ones. Its so expensive to fill them all. I'm not much good at sowing seeds for flowers i forget to sow them.