Hanging basket help.

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What do u put in your summer hanging baskets. Can't afford to buy £20 plus baskets. Live in southeast of England so OK weather. Have about 6 hanging baskets and 6 ground long pots .All with water reserve .. Last years were not great ? Thanks in advance..

Non stop Begonias would fit the bill and can be lifted and stored for the next year.

I usually have a look and see what's cheap in Morrisons ,Aldi ,Lidls .

I had success last year with tiny plug plants from Aldi .

As they say you need " a thriller,a filler ,and a spiller "

I like ivy leaved geraniums ,trailing nepeta ,lobelia ,petunias ,nemisia ,bacopa,trailing verbena ,Dichondra Silver Falls,Helichrysum.

Petunias are usually good but need dead heading and can get devoured by snails and slugs .

I had a fantastic show with bizzie lizzies /impatiens in a shady spot .

Have a google and a look www.brooksidenursery.co.uk/hanging-basket-plants.html

Trailing nasturtium, cheap as chips and you can eat them. Also have lots of veg in mine. Trailing toms , parsley and lettuce

Thanks a lot x

I have got a bit fed up on non stop watering of bedding plants in hanging baskets so I have now filed mine with
Ice plants or their proper name of Delosperma.
You only need a few as they are quick to spread, they don’t need watering every day and they won’t need replanting every year.
They are very easy to take cuttings of to produce more plants and look get in pots and hanging baskets.
The fulsia plant in the wall pot is Delosperma cooperi from last year
www.simplysucculents.co.uk/delosperma.html
I don’t have a phot of the others but this is the effect I am after in my baskets

Bacopa and Bidens are both pretty reliable, and they grow big! We got a load of plugs at the garden centre yesterday, a pound each (and that's quite a pricey shop). You can probably get cheaper online.

Nasturtiums are very easy from seed, so as cheap as you can get. They can get buggy though.