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Planter suggestions
John Workman
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I was given an oyster basket (basically a large, old supermarket shopping basket at an inflated price), for my birthday. I'm looking for ideas about planting it up.
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John, can you post a pic for us - we work better with visual aids
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm attaching an image, thanks
Just line it and treat it as any other hanging type basket - unless you are looking to fill it with perennial type plants? Forgive me for this but it does not look too attractive - I would fill it with shade lovers and tuck it into a shady corner of the garden!
There's a trailing plant with blue-ish ferny leaves and flowers that look like lobster claws that's often used for hanging baskets.
It would be such fun to use it for a planter like that - but I don't know it's name - I'll go and look in some books - unless anyone else knows???
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is what I was thinking of http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plant-dictionary/annual/parrots-beak/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks
The Lotus looks interesting. I'll try it