Make your own Hanging Planters

The first year in my new house I bought hooks to screw into my front porch to hang planters from.    At a yard sale I found some wire hanging baskets.  I found ready-made planter pots at Lowes that fit in my baskets for that first year.  Last year and this though I used the old pots and filled them myself with my own plant selections.

You will need a bag of potting soil and some annuals to start.  I chose bright pink Begonia, and some lilac and white Impatiens.

I filled the bottom with some soil and then I placed the Begonia in the center of the pot.

I then encircled the Begonia with two white and two pink Impatiens.

After filling in around the plants with more dirt and giving them a good watering the final product looked like this.