Hanging basket

Typically they are hung from buildings, where garden space is at a premium, and from street furniture for environmental enhancement.

One type of hanging basket is the inverted planter where plants are grown in an upside down pot and are watered from the top.

[1] They are filled with peat-free compost usually with a water-retaining gel and controlled release fertiliser granules.

In February 2004, Suffolk County Council ruled there was a risk that baskets, part of the annual summer floral displays in Bury St Edmunds, could fall from lampposts and injure the public, and checked that the posts were strong enough to support them.

[5] Because of hosepipe bans due to drought, local authorities in South East England reduced the number of hanging baskets in public displays in spring 2006.