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As I get older my hanging planters get put on chains that are longer so by now my hanging planters are about mid waist to mid chest high so I can get at them easier. They also get closer to my watering hoses. Years ago they were all over the place and over the years I have tried just about every kind conceivable.
I love seeing them with their flowers spilling out all over the place and as an artist I can take pictures of them so I have memories to paint during the winter months where I spend a great deal of time writing about gardening and painting many floral and gardening pictures.
I have found the best all round hanging planters are the self watering planters. They are a little pricey, but worth it. I have a tendency to scrounge stuff in the gardening centers towards the end of the season and have been found to buy a nice planter with a really dead plant in it for a fraction of the cost of the planter alone at the beginning of the season.
Many planters, especially the wrought iron ones have coco liners in them to help retain the soil.
There is a responsibility to hanging planters and that is they require constant watering.
For those of us who find our gardening budget dwindling each year especially the past year because of more of our dollars being needed for fuel costs, heating costs and just general inflation you will be surprised that just about anything can be used as a hanging planter.
Old dishes and bowls that are hanging around your house and not being used or things found at yard sales work well as long as they are deep enough to hold dirt and allow rooting.
I have Carl drill holes in the sides that allow me to place S hooks and chains or I use the recycled hangers from old pots that are no longer usable. You can cut two lengths of strong twine and by crisscrossing the twine in the middle you can set the dish or bowl in place and use your glue gun to secure it at the crisscross. You can hang this type of planter indoors or out.
I once made a hanging planter from an old kid’s fish bowl. It worked out real well. I had a strong netted bag from some navel oranges that I put over the upside down, outside of the fish bowl, hot glued it to the fish bowl, put my S hooks into the net, attached my chains and upon turning the fishbowl upright had a great hanging planter for my patio deck at our B & B one year.
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