
Subtle springtime beauty
Celebrate spring with a basket of perennials that you’ll be able to transplant into a shady border when they’re done blooming. The old-fashioned beauty of bleeding heart, both pink and white, is a perfect match for this charming basket planter. A plastic liner keeps the basket clean and the soil moist. This basket was intended for planting, so it came lined with plastic. All we had to do was punch a few drainage holes in it. But you can use any basket for planting — a large plastic garbage bag, trimmed to size, makes a good, inexpensive liner. If your basket has a looser weave, you may want to line it with sphagnum moss first, then the plastic liner. That way, you won’t catch glimpses of the plastic peeking through the basket.
Meet the plants
Basket is 18 in. long × 15 in. wide
A – Columbine Aquilegia ‘Songbird Dove’
B – Bleeding heart Dicentra spectabilis ‘Alba’
C – Pansy Viola Matrix™ Mix Coastal Sunrise
D – Coral bells Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’
E – Forget-me-not Myosotis sylvatica ‘Bluesylva’
F – Bleeding heart Dicentra ‘King of Hearts’
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