Does anyone have any suggestions or tips on where I can purchase (online or a store) some nice metal hanging baskets? I am thinking I may want to use those that you can use coconut liners with, but I don't any have experience with this. I'm used to using cheap plastic hanging pots that I buy at the $ store, but now have decided I would like some nicer ones to put on my patio. Any tips or suggestions welcomed.
Patty
Metal Hanging Baskets
Patty, Have you checked your home improvement stores? I know Lowes and Home Depot carry the baskets that you can line with moss or coconut liners. I don't know the price range, so I can't give you a price. Another place to check would be Wal-mart, I believe I have seen them there. Happy hunting!
Shirley
Thanks Shirley
I will need to doublecheck those places; I haven't looked lately. Right now, it seems that our WM has turned the gardening center into a Christmas display with all their Christmas merchandise stored there.
Patty
I understand. You might just have to wait until spring to find what you are looking for. Good luck!
Shirley
Yes, check Home Depot and Lowes. I know I saw them in our Lowes store last week. They carry the coco fiber liners as well.
Our Wal-Mart just this year for the first time started clearing out the garden department and using it for Christmas stuff. Really surprised me as they have never done this before. I was looking for Super Thrive ... they had cleared the shelves and said they wouldn't have it back until next spring! I just wanted to shout "Hey! This is Florida, nothing's changed ... stuff still grows year round down here!" Home Depot didn't carry it, a couple of clerks in the garden center there said they had never heard of it but I did find it at Lowes and I ended up paying $1 more for it than what I usually pay at Wal-Mart.
In spring you should be able to find the wrought iron hanging baskets and the coco fiber at Wal-Mart as well as Home Depot and Lowes.
Yeah looks like I will have to wait until spring to find them here in my area. There's got to be plenty of people who garden year round. I just hate that you can never find stuff in my area come October. I'll have to wait until Feb/Mar. Kinda irritating sometimes.
I bought this one at Wal Mart in March. They were out of stock and never got a new supply shortly after that. Early March is when I do the major portion of buying what we'll need for the year, like Preen, because once their stock is gone (whether it's Home Depot or any of the big places) they don't replenish it.
Yes! It is most annoying!
pirl Thanks for posting the picture. I like the basket a lot but I even like it better with the beautiful flowers you have in it. Any idea what you paid for one? I hope to look this weekend for some.
Patty
About $10.00, Patty. They're begonias from Dutch Gardens and Florida Sweetheart caladium from Bill, Caladiums for Less.
PHUGHES, by chance I was at HEB today and what did I see but the nice metal filigreed type baskets w/the coca lining all on sale. As I wasn't interested I didn't look at the price so I can't help out there.
Ann
I need to check my local HEB. They have gardening pots and you're right about them putting them on sale around this time. Good idea; thanks!
I did find some at Lowe's that were nice, but I didn't buy them yet. The ones that I really liked were 24" and $30. I wasn't sure how many I needed. I will check HEB in case I can find a good bargain first. If that doesn't work, I will buy those I saw at Lowe's . Lowe's actually had some 14" on sale for $7 or $8. At the time, I wasn't sure how many and what sizes I wanted so I didn't buy anything. Ended up buying plants instead. LOL
Thanks again for the idea.
Patty
Patty: Those baskets are pretty popular and really reasonable, and so are the coconut liners. I found some by doing a google on hanging baskets and up popped some nice wire ones, some are even three wired baskets tiered that look really lovely and very reasonable.
joy112854
So you think $30 for a 24" is reasonable? It was a really big basket and I really want at least two maybe three of that size, but Yikes $100 on wire baskets. Hubbie would not need to know about that one. LOL
If I spent $100 on plant containers, my husband would have me committed. I had no idea those wire plant containers were that costly. UGH!
The smaller ones were not bad. $8 for a 14" I think and they had some others that were around $15. It was the bigger ones that were costly but oh they would make nice hanging pots.
Gotcha.
Patty: I don't know where you are looking???? I went to google and typed in hanging wire baskets and got lots of hits for around $15 each? Where is this $100 one? Now, I did go to www.hangingbaskets.com and get a plastic one which was pricey; but, that is because it has 30 holes in the sides where you can plant a plant in each hole. I am going to plant bell peppers in that one next season here. I can grow 30 bell peppers out it. I bought the 14 inch one which was $34.99, the thing is you layer dirt and put root ball from the seed starting in each hole and hang it and water it, continuously, since it's a hanging planter. You could use flowers though or anything else actually. I thinking pickling cucumbers? It's not metal though, it's plastic.
$100 is a lot for any planter. Now Gardener's supply has a planter holder that holds 4 topsy turvys or 4 hanging planters for $99 which I plan on getting as it is sturdy enough to hold 4 and will conserve space.
joy112854
3 planters at $30 = $90 plus tax is about $100 plus I wanted a couple of smaller ones so by the time I buy all that I wanted it would have been over $100. That's what I meant by spending a $100 on wire baskets. Sorry for the confusion.
Do you have a JoAnn's Fabrics or a Big Lots in your area. That's where I found mine and they were very inexpensive. I bought two 15" diameter baskets. They were nowhere near $30 a piece. JoAnn's Fabrics always has that stuff on sale this time of year. Sometimes 60% off.