Subtle springtime
By: Garden Gate staff
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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.
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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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