Outrageous Winter Basket Plants
When to plant a hanging basket.
Winter basket plants. This week in our garden we planted a winter flowering hanging basket and trough. If you do not have a greenhouse it is usually easier to plant in situ once the frosts have passed. Expect these pansies to survive fall frosts with ease gracing your home with living color until youre ready for some ho-ho-holiday plantings.
Plant winter hanging baskets between September and October and it doesnt matter if they are frosted as the plants are should be hardy. Make sure you include some trailing plants to. Plant summer hanging baskets from April onwards but they will need protection from frost until the middle or end of May.
Growing Tips and Planting Ideas for Fall Pansies. Plants used for a long lasting display will include compact specimens of conifers ornamental grasses evergreen shrubs as well as bedding plants. In warmer zones shift these trailing pansies from baskets to garden beds and youll have flowers all winter long.
As well as providing colourful foliage evergreen shrubs and conifers are ideal for providing some height at the centre of your hanging basket.