Glory Flowers Suitable For Hanging Baskets

There are different varieties of this flower to choose from including mint cinnamon chocolate citrus lemon fringed apple and rose.

Flowers suitable for hanging baskets. Combining colors such as pink and purple is a popular option. These are trailing evergreen perennials with stiff fleshy leaves and single or double flowers. Save to My scrapbook.

Petunias are tender perennials in Zones 9-11 but many modern hybrids are now grown as annuals in all USDA Hardiness Zones. These sunny plants burst with color and herald the transition from summer to fall. Hang in a bright sunny spot to help these plants thrive.

Lobelia When lobelia blooms in a hanging basket the whole plant turns in to a mass of intensely-colored blue or purple flowers. These include such familiar flowers as tulips hydrangeas and anthurium plants. They will easily hide the basket and create a beautiful display.

Parrots Beak is trailing perennial with exotic bright crimson flowers and silver-gray needle-like leaves. Choose vibrant bedding plants for a short-term show or herbs shrubs and evergreens for a long-lasting display. Try the milliflora variety which blooms continuously without the need for pinching or multiflora which performs in hot wet summers.

Plants used for a long lasting display will include compact specimens of conifers ornamental grasses evergreen shrubs as well as bedding plants. But in hanging baskets or in pots they are controllable. Cascading varieties will fill and flow over the edge of baskets creating a full look.

Small weeping varieties are more suitable for hanging baskets shrubby ones. Their voluminous flowers also make petunias ideal for hanging baskets but know that some varieties do require a bit of trimming and deadheading. You can also grow lantana in.