Hanging Flower Baskets Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide

Hanging Flower Baskets – To Add Colours To The Landscape Around Your Home

By Jon Kryer

Hanging flower baskets add attention to your home. You may have a number of hanging flower baskets near the entrance to your home, adding welcoming colour along the walkway to your door.

The hanging flower baskets will make your house stand out in your neighbourhood. Especially if the other houses are bricks and dull lawns. The colours presented by flowers in full bloom, hanging in mid-air are a sight to behold.

Have you ever noticed homes that stand out in the neighborhood? I mean the houses that you walk by or drive by and have to take a second look. Have you stopped to consider why these homes attract attention?

It usually has to do with the way they have landscaped the yard. I find that it does not matter if the home is valued at a modest price or high price, if the yard is well cared for it attracts attention.

Flowers to add colour to your yard

A well cared for and attention grabbing yard usually incorporates the use of flowers for color. Some people use flowering bushes or shrubs with varied foliage. Other people use containers of flowers on their steps or along a walk way. Other people will choose hanging flower baskets to bring color to the front of their home.

The main thing to keep in mind when developing your landscape is that too much can make a yard look junky and too elaborate means that most of your summer is dedicated to lawn care.

Hanging Flower Baskets are Low Maintenance

I have found that hanging flower baskets are a great low maintenance way to bring color and focus to different areas by our home. We have a front yard light that looks like an old fashioned street light.

It has a rod that runs through it and extends out the sides. This is a perfect place to have hanging flower baskets. They are suspended off the ground so we do not have to mow around them and they are low enough to easily water.

Change the soil

I have found that I like to pot my own hanging flower baskets. The reason is that the already potted baskets often have very light soil in them so allow the plants to grow and mature quickly in the spring, however by mid to late summer they have lost their looks.

By starting my own hanging flower baskets I can use a heavy soil that will mean a slower rate of early growth, but the planters will last a longer time.

When purchasing hanging flower baskets make sure that there are holes in the bottom of the baskets to allow rain and water to drain off so that the plants do not drowned.

Avoid buying flower baskets in full bloom

Also try not to buy the flowering baskets that are already in full bloom. They look beautiful in the nursery and when you first place them out in the yard, but they will not last very long if they are at full maturity when you buy them.

Look for hanging flower baskets that are planted close together so that the flowers and foliage will drop down and provide a full look.

Also if you do buy a basket that is already planted add some heavy potting soil to the soil already in the basket.

You can place the hanging flower baskets all around the house, to add some colours, especially when the flowers are in full bloom.

Some hanging flower baskets can be added along the walkway to the entrance of your home. Just like I have in my home. Every time a visitor comes to my home for the first time, they always talk about the hanging flowers and the different colours of the flowers.

Better than talking about the weather all the time.

About the Author:
Jon Kryer has written a number of articles on gardening and landscaping including Indoor Herb Garden, Indoor Gardening, Plant Stand .
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.

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