Easy fill hanging baskets - what size to get?

[GarethSouthgatesWaistcoat]

Does anyone have easy fill hanging baskets? I can't decide what size to get - 12 or 14"
The company I'm buying from charges for postage and returns so I want to get it right.

I only intend to fill one side and the top as they're quite near to the wall/fence. I'm thinking the 14" may be too big once the plants have filled out. Then again experience has taught me to avoid overly small hanging baskets.

I have plenty of compost and plants. I'm tempted by the number of planting holes in the 14" but slightly terrified of ending up with monster baskets

I'm not sure what easy fill baskwts are. Are they the baskets with the holes round the sides?
I would definitely get a 14 as I think the 12 would dry out quickly.

Arent all hanging baskets 'easy fill'

What am I missing? It's just a plant pot on some chain.

Go to your garden nursery or B&M with a garden centre and buy several hanging flowering plants, they're about £1-1.70 each, and bee friendly ones :) and just stick them in well spaces. I put long hanging ones either side of the back and some of the colourful connifer looking ones in the middle and short hanging ones down the front. Gives it structure and a bit of style instead of 1028363 pansies and busy lizzies all shoved in the same one.

We have hanging strawberries in ours this year too :)

Look up 'hanging baskets' on Google or YouTube.
Go to B&Q or Wilko or similar and get yourself all you need.
It's easy. Don't spend loads of money on a hanging basket🙄

I would go for the 14 And fill all the holes. Hanging baskets need to be crammed full or they just look naff.

14" for me. I always find that pots and baskets 'shrink' massively as soon as you get them outside, so I don't think they'll look too big. Also, as you say, smaller baskets dry out at a rate of knots.

Oh god I just googled them. They look really naff when filled weirdly or with the wrong plants. You're supposed to fill them with plants that make it look like a hanging flower ball rather than a basket. And they're cheap nasty plastic 😭

Get a proper metal hanging basket with a moss liner for £2 from Home & Bargain OP and just fill it with pretty plants. That would look so much better!

Gosh I didn't expect this to be so contentious!

It's something new I'm trying this year. I have many years experience with hanging baskets 😂 I find my metal/coir/moss lined ones increasingly tricky to plant up and keep moist despite employing all the tricks.

Thank you for all the advice, I'll crack on...

I didn't realise I'd posted in AIBU not Gardening - that explains the number of replies

I just googled them and thought they looked great. And much easier than hairy coconut liners.

'hairy coconut liners' love it!

I thought they looked great too and the reviews say they're easy to fill (I guess the clue is in the name).

I have lots of lovely trailing petunia and verbena and some more upright stuff for the top.