Gardening tip: how to make up hanging baskets
Find out which pendulous plants go in hanging baskets and how to fit them in.


A good job for a rainy day in the potting shed. Rest a mesh basket on a big pot. Line it with moss, packed down. Take seedlings and rooted cuttings of pendulous plants-Lobelia, Helichrysum, ivy-and push the rootballs up through the mesh and moss.
Work a layer of potting compost around these roots. Push another layer of plants through the mesh, and add more compost, firming it with your knuckles. Finish with bigger plants on top-fuchsia (above), ivy-leaved geraniums, tuberous begonias-and top off with moss. Get ready for a summer of sloshing water.
Exquisite houses, the beauty of Nature, and how to get the most from your life, straight to your inbox.
Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by HRH The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
-
I've seen the light: How a dark and gloomy kitchen in the Scottish Borders was reconfigured for 21st century living
When a family home passed to a new generation, Guild Anderson was asked to create a kitchen suited to modern living.
-
Once threatened with extinction, the peregrine falcon has made a remarkable comeback
In the latest instalment of Mark Cocker's 'Winging it' column, he looks at the peregrine, a bird of prey with astonishing speed and super strength.