Eco Aus Liners
   

The new long-lasting
"Recycled" Basket Liner that will
last the life of your plants

Hanging Baskets

You can create
your own hanging gardens
with beautiful hanging baskets.

Firstly, why do people have hanging baskets?

You will need to consider:

Where you are going to hang your basket.
You can leave hanging baskets on the ground, but it is more susceptible to pests.

What direction the sun will come from?

How many hours sunlight will the basket get?

Will it tolerate the hot afternoon sunlight?
or would the gentle morning sun be better?
Some plants need more sun hours than others.
They let you know if they would like more sun
by growing tall and spindly.
If the sun hours are sufficient, colours and growth will be lush.

What do you want to grow in your basket?

Then you will need
a hanging basket
a basket liner to fit the basket
light weight potting mix
water
and
plants.

 

With The Long Lasting Eco Aus Liners for your Hanging Baskets,
your baskets won't need to be potted
for a long time, unless you want to, of course.

So why not use plants that will last for years.


I had a customer who told me her family had a special (huge) fern that was over a 100 years old, and it was passed down from generation to generation with great pride.




Hanging baskets add many things to the space they occupy.
Colour, shape, attracting attention in one direction and distracting from another.

From filling corners, dividing indoor outdoor areas, screening neighbours, providing spectacular displays, growing herbs both culinary and medicinal, even veggies, hanging baskets have come back into favor since the Victorian days laviously decorating shopfronts and lamp posts.

Hanging basket gardens are very easy and convenient, definitely rewarding for the amount on work required. The only maintenance is regular watering and feeding weekly. This can be set up to be automatically controlled.
It is quicker just to buy punnets of your favourite plants and repot them into hanging baskets.
The hanging baskets in these photos are over 20 years old, the liners are up to 5 years old and both are continually recycled and reused each time a plant either matures and reaches a size where it needs to go into a larger basket or is divided up, then replanted amongst several smaller baskets.

Hanging baskets underneath one another is convenient when watering and depending on the height available, using quality hanging baskets it is possible to tier up to 6 baskets .

Suggestions:

* When you re-pot your baskets, using The Long Lasting Eco Aus Liners for Hanging Basket, before you put the soil into the basket, wet some newspaper and mould it into the basket on top (inside) the Eco Aus Liner and the basket. This is the best method of helping to retain the water without causing any stagnation.

For the potting mix I like to use a mixture of

1. 5 parts good quality potting mix
2. 5 parts Peat moss
3. 2 parts Vermiculite
4. 3 parts Perlite
5. 3 parts mulch or compost

This potting mixture keeps the baskets light-weight and helps hold the moisture. You can use a wetting agent if you want to, but I find it seems to disappear after not too long.