Beginner Gardening: Suggestions for hanging baskets, 1 by LakeLivingRos

LakeLivingRos wrote:
Oh I live SO close to Furneys! I am in there all the time checking what is in bloom! Although I was thinking about trying on here to see if anyone had suggestions that were something I had not yet considered! Funny, when I had talked to my favorite employee at Furneys about the vinca minor in the hanging baskets he said basically the same thing as you did! Although, I actually did not buy the periwinkle, I removed it from a planter box in the ground in the front of our house (as you can see in the picture, this was taken from the king county website, where the photo was taken a couple years before we got the house). For some reason it never grew very well in the planter box on the ground.. and looked horrible.. I moved it to the planters on the fence just to fill them for the time being, but it seems if I decide to neglect them it keeps them at bay, where if I water them then they fill out more. Only 1 sprout keeps coming up, which is actually outside the ground planter box, but the area is mostly cement and packed gravel so I think the poor conditions prevent it from going further until I pull it. I certainly don't plan on putting them in the ground though! I have had to pull out enough ivy to never want a fast growing "ground cover" again! I don't think they will spread if they are kept in a planter box though?