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Create Stunning Hanging Baskets

Use these easy plant-by-numbers recipes to put together the most beautiful hanging baskets in your neighborhood.

Million bells, geranium, snapdragon

By Kelly Roberson

 

Try a Patriotic Theme

Bold and bright -- what's not to enjoy about a red, white, and blue combo? Use lush, trailing plants like these to overflow a traditional hanging basket and eventually cover it with a skirt of eye-catching color. This basket grows best in full sun.

A. Calibrachoa 'Cabaret Purple' -- 2
B. Verbena 'Aztec Cherry Red' -- 1
C. Snapdragon (Antirrhinum 'Bells White') -- 2



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