Hi, I'm Debra Lee Baldwin in my garden.
About to redo some hanging baskets
And I thought, you know, maybe you have
A hanging basket that needs redoing, too.
So let's get started!
A lot of dead leaves
That are clinging to the base of the rosette.
So I'm getting in there and pulling those out.
I'm really pleased at how well the
String-of-pearls have done
Because in my climate, string-of-pearls
Don't necessarily do well
It gets too hot for them.
But I've had this hanging
On the north side of my house
And it seems to be just the perfect
Understory environment for the plant.
Birds like to use coir for their nests
And they're welcome to it
As long as they don't
Make too much of a mess.
Oh, that's heavy
Because I watered it!
Make sure you use
A soft cloth
Ideally a natural fiber cloth
I don't know why, but I thought
This butterfly would be cute
On there. You need to discipline
Yourself not to have cute crap.
I just pulled that right out of the soil
Of another hanging basket.
All I have to do is make sure
That that blue rosette is well anchored.
These 'Lola' echeverias
Take off the leaves
Where new roots are going to form.
So that's all going to go
Into the soil
With the rosette facing outward.
Two baskets down!
This is Kalanchoe synsepala
Sort of an umbilical cord
That starts here
At the center of the plant
And then comes out
And on the end of it
Is this little offset.
See those little roots
Starting to form?
Make a little basin
And plunk it right in there.
This is a really cool senecio
The leaves are the size
Of gooseberries.
Composition number three finished!
Look at how overgrown
And rangy this Aeonium haworthii is.
It's right there where all the
String-of-pearls are
And if I were to pull it out
I might disturb their roots.
Isn't that attractive?
This aeonium that's just standing up there.
Let's get rid of that.
Variegated rosary vine
I may tuck it back in
Now if there ever was a plant
That wanted a hanging basket
It's dollar vine
Just as you would any pot
Fill the coir hanging basket
With soil and then just
Plant right into it.
I want some of it
To hang down over
The string-of-pearls
To emphasize that
Really interesting
Repetition of form.
It's a climbing aloe
It'll cascade over terraces
It gets long over time
And it likes shade
So why not grow it in a
Hanging pot in a shade garden?
Just take off the lower leaves
To create a stem
That exposes the meristem tissue
And also is an anchor.
Just stick it in.
Boy, that was easy, huh?
These have orange flowers
Just like most aloes do.
OK, one more cutting and I'm done.
I could put the rosary vine back in.
Beautiful, it's variegated with
pink, green and white.
After a rosary vine blooms
It creates these little corms
Or whatever you want to call them.
That are capable of producing roots.
Just make sure corms touch the soil.
Everything's been planted
And refreshed.
And that's it!
My hanging baskets have been
refurbished. Some of them
replanted and I think I'm really
pleased with the way they
turned out. I hope this has
Helped you and inspired you
To do something wonderful
With hanging baskets of succulents.
I'm Debra Lee Baldwin
In my garden.