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August 26th, 2008
I’ve got one of those two-tiered metal hanging baskets. You can line them with coco mats, but I’ve been using moss. Last year I grew laurentia on top (lovely and smelled like lilacs) and a black ivy geranium on bottom. It looked kind of shabby and the black color just didn’t look good.
This year, I saw something on the Gardening By The Yard show on HGTV (Paul James) and it involved plain old begonias, the kind that comes in six packs everywhere. I decided to try it, and I’m so happy with it, I think I’ll do it again next year. You basically just stick begonias in all of the holes and fill in with sphagnum moss.
Here it is in May when I first started it:
And here it is recently:
Somewhere in there are a couple of tuberous begonias, but they got lost in the shuffle.
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