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Half-dead hanging baskets. What would you do?

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53rdWay · 26/08/2017 11:30

Recently moved into a new house with a garden full of hanging baskets. Hanging baskets are really not looking very well (guessing they've been a long time without decent watering). Some of them have a few still-living trailing geraniums, some look like they're just dead twigs and ivy.

Would you dig them all out and replant as winter baskets, even though it's August? Stick some hardy perennials in them? Keep watering them for a while to see what can be revived before doing anything drastic?

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GingerKitCat · 26/08/2017 14:30

What sort of stuff is in them? Is it all annuals or do they have any evergreen stuff like ivy, cordyline etc? Annuals are unlikely to make a comeback this year I suspect, how far gone are they? If watering doesn't bring them back within a day or two I'd write them off.

You could gather all the decent geraniums into one or two baskets if they're still looking strong.

Homebase have packs of 6 decent sized winter pansies on sale this bank holiday weekend for £1. Just keep them well watered in this hot weather. They should be nice and established in a month Smile

Do you have a Morrisons nearby? They're pretty good for small hanging basket additions - baby conifers, ivy, gaultheria, cyclamen etc. Normally £1-2.

How many baskets do you have?

53rdWay · 27/08/2017 23:14

Yeah, it looks mostly like annuals with a bit of ivy and one basket of I think some kind of succulent? (Morganianum? photo attached). I've salvaged a couple of not-too-bad geraniums out of the others and written off the rest. There's about ten baskets in total although some of them are really falling apart.

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