Easy Hanging Baskets

Complementary colors are yummy eye candy. This is Million Bells Calibrachoa and Bidens. Make your basket whatever flavor you'd like...it takes minutes. 

Here’s a new take on an old standby. This basket is chock full of impatiens. Rather than one color, blend three hues into a pretty mosaic.

Here's a fast and simple idea for that tree trunk in your back yard. Hakone grass (Hakonechloa ‘Aureola’), English ivy (Hedera helix), table fern (Pteris ‘Albolineata’), and violas complete this natural look. Choose what comes natural to you.  Select the flowers you love for your own unique look. Check the right plants for your zone. 

This fabulous fuschia and magenta maven carries the show beautifully on her own.  Choose your favorite color and viola, a captivating hanging basket of your very own design. 

You could keep it simple with just one plant type or you can mix things up -- your choice. Caliente calibrachoa in a waterfall of hot hues (purple, hot pink, and pale pink) are shown here. Check your zoning for flowers that work best in your region. 

Limitless possibilities! Make your basket with school colors...a patriotic palette of red, white, and blue are what you see here (red verbena, white petunias, and baby blue lobelia). Want a darker blue? Try a different lobelia or substitute nemesia or browallia.  So pretty and so easy...

Why not hang your own personal art exhibit?! A solid backdrop, like this painted wall, is the perfect canvas for baskets in a sculptural environment like these lower tree branches. Think of colors, textures, shapes, and angles you love and let your mind run wild! 

Coleus colors are endless...add some yellow strawflower and trailing portulaca and let them dangle to one side for your informal basket arrangement.