Best Annual Flowers For Hanging Baskets

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Annual flowers for hanging baskets. Its ability to flow and cascade over the top of planters make it ideal for hanging baskets. The lobelia plant is an attractive annual herb with many varieties. Verbenas light and airy blooms hold up well through the summer heat.

If you can place your hanging basket in an area with a lot of sunlight supertunias are an excellent annual to choose. They have large lovely blooms and are very good at handling more extreme weather. In both the spring and summer accent your beds and planters with striking coleus.

Whether you want to love the overflowing exuberance of petunias and vinca the look-at-me silhouettes of celosia and craspedia or the lush beauty of zinnias marigolds and dahlias these annuals are all ideal for planting in pretty pots and space-saving containers. By BBC Gardeners World MagazineAug 05 20194 mins to read. Plant it alongside herbs or other edibles to try to keep deer at bay.

2 to 11 find your zone. These are the most popular plants for hanging baskets think petunias geraniums calibrachoa and trailing fuchsias verbena and lobelia. Nasturtium is an edible flower typically yellow orange or red in color.

The growing habit of this plant makes it an ideal choice for window boxes and hanging baskets. These plants branch out. While most are annuals some nasturtiums will also grow as perennials in zones 9-11.

Most gardeners know sweet alyssum Lobularia maritima a short cushion-shaped annual with abundant but tiny fragrant flowers. This easy-to-grow greenery makes a gorgeous backdrop to flowering plants in shades of bright green and purple. The wispy colorful blooms of verbena make for interesting beautiful and durable hanging baskets.