Five Easy Steps to Adding Hanging Planters in Your Yard

Today, I am sharing five easy steps to add or redo hanging planters in your yard. I love mine so much!

Hanging planters look lovely in a yard. My hanging planters have been looking awful all winter long. So today, I will share five easy steps to add or redo hanging flower baskets in your yard. Adding hanging planters is a great way to add color to your yard. Follow these five easy steps, and you’ll be on your way to enjoying beautiful blooms in no time.

Why I Needed New Hanging Pots

First, let me share how badly my planters looked. As you can see, I was not exaggerating.

This basket had only dirt in it. Nothing else. Oh, my!

This one looked almost as bad. At least it had a few (barely) live flowers in it. In case you are wondering, I discovered the sprinklers weren’t working in the hanging planters. So, it was not my total neglect. Instead, I hadn’t noticed they were dried out!

Five Easy Steps to Adding Hanging Planters

Here is what you need to make hanging planters in your garden.

#1 Purchase the items you need for your planters.

• hanging planter and poles for hanging pots
• Potting Soil
• Sheet Moss (mat sheets are recommended)
• Basket Liners
• Assorted Plants

I added a few options for hanging planters that you can order online. They are very reasonably priced. Just click the photo for the link.

#2 Prepare the planter and line it with sheet moss.

For me, preparing the planter meant dumping out the dead plants.

#3 – Line the planter with sheet moss.

This would have been a lot easier had I purchased sheet moss in a mat form. I highly recommend you do that. But somehow, I managed to get it to stay in place.

#4 Place the basket liner in the basket with the sheet moss.

Whether or not you are using moss, add a basket liner. This will hold the soil in the pot. You really need the liner, I promise.

#5 Plant three or four plants in the basket. 

Here you can see I forgot to buy the peat moss and didn’t use it.

While planting, be sure to fill with planting soil and pack in firmly.

Water thoroughly to help the plants adjust to their new surroundings.

You only need to hang the pots and water them every few days. I fixed the drip system in my pots to keep these hanging planters looking great!

I now have four beautiful hanging planters again that line our walkway to the pool and sand volleyball court.

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