Hanging basket weather tolerance

[Reks]

Hi all,
I posted a similar question under the weather section (maybe the question is more sip united for this section). How cold can hanging baskets handle. The weather is due to be 4 degree Celsius tonight. Do my baskets from weekends need protection? Or am I ok. The hanging baskets r in my back and front garden and I live in a terraced property with houses on both sides.
Cheers
Rekha

[WendyC]

What is planted in them? Were the plants hardened off properly? What position are they in?

[veggiechicken]

What have you planted in the baskets? If they're tender plants then they won't like the cold, whether they're in baskets or in the ground.

[Reks]

Pansies, trailing geraniums, fuschia....the usual plants. Some are perched against wall, couple hung as hanging basket against fence and a front facing wall.

[Reks]

Pansies, trailing geraniums, fuschia....the usual plants. Some are perched against wall, couple hung as hanging basket against fence and a front facing wall.

Just popped bin bags over them, is that good enough or should I bring them in?
R

[Reks]

Just popped bin bags over them, is that good enough or should I bring them in?
R

And they were bought from a garden centre, they were placed outside in the open when I bought them this weekend...

[Bill HH]

Its still cold at night, it isnt just frost its low temps that give the plants a check and ultimately they stop growing. I would bring them in at night until we get better night temperatures. i know it isnt easy having baskets in the house though. I evicted some overwintered fuschia plants from my greenhouse due to needing the space and they have gone a purple colour and some leaves are dying. The garden centre probably took them in at night.

[Alison]

Just popped bin bags over them, is that good enough or should I bring them in?
R

Mine are in the greenhouse for now, the protection helps them develop. They'll be acclimatised to the great outdoors and stay out when we're done with frosts as I think it's too early yet for anything tender. I have a sneaking suspicion that SOME garden centres want us to buy stuff now, lies it to the cold and then buy again.......


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[Bill HH]

Mine are in the greenhouse for now, the protection helps them develop. They'll be acclimatised to the great outdoors and stay out when we're done with frosts as I think it's too early yet for anything tender. I have a sneaking suspicion that SOME garden centres want us to buy stuff now, lies it to the cold and then buy again.......

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Alison, you are quite right in your suspicions, I have a friend who owns a nusery and selling his bedding plants twice to people detemines whether he can change his car every year. He said he used to warn people it was too early to put them outside but they never listened.

[Two_Sheds]

How cold can hanging baskets handle.

because they aren't a living thing, then potentially a basket can survive any temperature.

You need to think about the plants inside it though: what have you planted? "Pansies, trailing geraniums, fuschia"

have you hardened them off? Never trust your seller to do it for you.