Casual Spiller Plants For Hanging Baskets
Lastly you add the Spillers.
Spiller plants for hanging baskets. There are many types of plants that can be used as spillers. The viola brightens a hanging basket. Best Plants for Hanging Baskets.
A Thriller A Filler and a Spiller Coleus. Plus planters are easy to care for and water and require zero landscaping so theyre perfect for renters as well as homeowners. Oso Happy Petit Pink Rose Rosa ZleMarianneYoshida Shrub roses make fantastic thriller plants in containers.
Once you have the planters installed on the porch railing and filled with soil it is time to add the best plants for hanging baskets. If the container is going to be viewed from all sides Spillers should be placed on all sides. Some are annuals some perennial some are chosen for their foliage and texture others for flowers and color.
There are dozens of ways to make a hanging planter so that both the container and the plant adds color and charm to a space. Dead-head to prolong flowering for as long as possible. A good spiller like licorice plant Helichrysum petiolare Variegatum Zones 1011 can end up being a mini-thriller just growing down instead of up.
Spillers are placed close to the edge of the container. With rich velvet colors the viola x wittrockiana commonly known as the pansy brightens up the center of hanging. Spillers are trailing plants that hang over the edge of the planter.
They come in a wide array of leaf shapes and sizes and colors. See more ideas about container gardening container plants planting flowers. Sweet potato vines are classic spillers.