Hanging tough!

Hanging baskets are great focal points as well as a clever way to use empty vertical space, but they can be hard to maintain as they dry out so fast.

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They also cannot hold a lot of nutrient-rich soil which means their carer needs to feed the plants in them very regularly. If you dread the schlep but still like the idea of hanging gardens there is a low care solution…

Simply fill them with tough, cascading plants which will perform spectacularly and will stay around for many seasons.

Portulacaria afra ‘Prostrata’

We are all aware of the good attributes of the pork bush or spekboom as a carbon buster, but a dwarf form called