Hanging plants outside.

[OhMari]

Do you protect your hanging plants outside.
Right now, it is pouring rain outside, and I ran out and brought my hanging plants inside.
I just bought them, and I'll cover them when it gets cold, Friday nite is suppose to drop down into the upper 30's.

But I was wondering if you just let them outside when it downpours, or do you take them off the hook, and put them where they don't get so much rain.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

When it rains I take them down to get poured on. Now if they were tender and newly planted I might give them some shelter, however a full basket gets rained on.

And I also take them down if I am home so they don't blow off the hook and smash them up. That is the real damage of a hanging basket. Other than the 30's which we are well past that.

I did it today with my fuschia.

 

[ilovepcot]

I run like a wild woman when it rains...scurrying to get all hanging plants off hooks and placed full in the rain. Only time I bring them inside is when it drops below 32 degrees in FL. That's not often in my neck of the woods. I do try to hang delicate plants in a way that they can avoid really hot, scorching sun.

I have a terrace that runs the full length of my house and is built high up in the trees. I have *lots* and lots of different type ferns, banana trees in pots, corn trees and other things that I don't even know the names of. Pretty tropical looking. Love plants and flowers!

 

[OhMari]

LOL,
I did end up running outside last nite in the pouring rain.
I heard my 2 neighbors talking this morning and they said we got 2 inches of rain.
I walked out the door, to hang the plants back up and it is freezing out. I think I'll wait for it to warm up again.

 

[JessicaR]

I never have and I have many different hanging baskets around the house. It just never occured to me to take them down for rain. They have all survived and thrived each year so it didnt hurt anything.

Cold is a different story! I have taken them inside for unexpected frost.

 

[RN4Babies]

I'm in WI too, and it poured here as well. My hanging baskets stayed where they were, and they look so happy this morning! As long as the baskets have adequate drainage, mine have always seemed to love rain (including the floods we got last year in June). I only bring them in if the forecast is for temps below 34 degrees, and I've never had a problem.

 

[disney1990]

I leave my hanging plants out when it rains. Go to Disney World and look at all the hanging plants -- nobody moves them when it rains -- which it does virtually every afternoon. However, you may need to "feed" the plants a little more often because the nutrients will be removed from the soil.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I leave my hanging plants out when it rains. Go to Disney World and look at all the hanging plants -- nobody moves them when it rains -- which it does virtually every afternoon. However, you may need to "feed" the plants a little more often because the nutrients will be removed from the soil.

Did my mega dosing of Miracle Gro yesterday.

With all of the rain here, everything is just getting washed out. I am determined to grow a PJM Rhododendron in my landscaping.

I am hoping that the fertilizer will do the trick. My new growth is wilting when the sun hits it.