On the back of the photographs on the wall, AIBU to ask about hanging baskets?

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The reason is this, I can't decide whether my hanging basket is common or chavvy or classy.
Having had a look at it this morning, I know which word I'd use.

Hanging tomatoes are where it's at (apparently, well if you go by DH's gardening theme this year) :o

Or in my case dead

at tomatoes. Mine are in pots because I think we will be moving house. Need to be easily transportable.
Out of a road of about 50 houses, us and two other have them. One is a white plastic hanger though

Hanging baskets are useful if you have no garden, no window-sill for window-boxes and a lot of time for watering the wretched things.

As long as you don't plant them with standard "municipal-park issue" lobeilia, salvia and geraniums it should all be OK (maybe).

Obv. I mean pelargoniums when I say geraniums. ;-)

that's the thing. I do have lobelia. I can't remember the name of the other ones, they are flatt(ish) and look a bit like pansy's and also begin with P.

We have hanging tomatoes by our front door.

Neither. It means you are a swinger.

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I quite like a hanging basket but DH won't let me get them "because we are 35 not 85".
My neighbour does tomatoes in his.

I like them, my mil made beautiful ones to hang on either side of the garage and in front of the bedroom windows. Hummingbirds would be attracted to them too.

rip petunias?

I love lobelia, or any blue flower.

Or scented flowers.

Don't they say that about Papass grass? We live I'm rented with some in the front garden, not been approached yet

I have hanging strawberry plants !

Yes fuck, lobelia.
I'd like to be where hummingbirds come to see your baskets. We'd get sparrows and tits.

bronze are you sure? You remember when your new neighbours came and asked if you'd like to come over for cocktails? Didn't you know what that meant?

Hanging baskets are always nice except white plastic ones with dead stuff in, they add a splash of colour!

I have hanging baskets full of violas. I also have brown leather sofas and a union jack cushion though, so according to the MN style police I'm in danger of being exiled to Nethuns any day now

I think the ones with tomatoes or strawberries sound nice - but if they're outside your front door wouldn't you worry about random people nicking all your lovely fruit?

Hmm I always associate hanging baskets with my granny.
They do look nice I suppose but I prefer nice modern pots and bay tree type things.
That's probably chavvy now too!

See, that's the problem. I've been out of the UK for so long, my what's acceptable versus chavvy o'meter is buggered.

We have tomatoes in ours. I have done flowers in the past but now we tend to grow stuff to eat. I never thought of strawberries in a hanging basket. Are they a special variety?

I think you can get miniature strawberries, nagy; presumably that's what people put in hanging baskets?

Have had ones mixing herbs and trailing nasturtiums -they work better up here than outdoor toms do.
Personally I LIKE the lots-of-colour lobelia/ petunia/geranium/other bedding plant ones, so I have them now, and don't give a monkeys if someone Disapproves. I have sparkly purple shoes, too, though.
Don't like "garden ornaments" (fake butterflies and the like) though, and will in turn Disapprove heavily of them whenever the opportunity arises :)

Have you seen those funny spherical ones? I have seen them on a few posh shops and fancy houses. they are just greenery, in a ball