Hanging baskets for the autumn/winter

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Hi!

Thanks again for the roses tips. Another question for you. My hanging baskets at the front of the house have died. I can admit to not watering regularly. House at the front is shaded.

What can I do with them now? Any nice seasonal ideas, even faux plants or flowers, for a more autumnal look. Anything I can plant?

I have at the moment for creeping Jenny , ivy , colius and some pansies

When I plant up autumn baskets I usually use ivy, an evergreen with siver ish leaves (not sure on the name) and violas. I prefer violas to pansies for a small basket. I sometimes put some tete a tete in the bottom as well because I always let them go until spring.

These are some pots I have done for the autumn for inspiration!

Thank you for the ideas. Your pots look lovely and with more floral than I thought. Maybe a trip to the garden centre will help. I was thinking of adding little pumpkins to make it more seasonal.

Real pumpkins? If sitting on the soil they will rot fast (if held clear of the soil they will still rot quite fast).

I do this for work. You can put things like skimmia japonica (pretty little flowers or berries) in the centre, or at the moment maybe a vaccinium (cranberry; the berries look pretty though they won't last forever), or a hellebore, or heucheras (lovely colours - dark purples look really nice IMO).

As well as ivy, trailing plants that look good include snow-in-summer (cerastium), lamium (personally, I don't like this), creeping thyme and oregano (there's a lovely golden variety that looks great) and vinca minor (periwinkle).

Violas are the best-value filler; you can also get the bigger pansies (I like the blotch-faced ones in dark, velvety colours rather than the primary-colour ones, which can look a bit crude). You can get away with primulae too, and cyclamen if you're careful about watering (they don't like their leaves getting wet).

I like layering bulbs in mine - crocus, iris reticulata, mini daffodils and tulipa turkestanica will all flower in succession and keep things looking bright. There are nicer tulips than tete-a-tete, though it's the most common one.