Late last spring while touring a few cute antique stores I stumbled upon this lovely lavender chair. It was tucked in the back of the store with a small rip in the seat and a sale tag. It just so happened that I was on the hunt for a wicker chair to use as a planter, and the colour was perfect. I quickly snatched it up and smiled all the way home. Once I got it home, planted it up and put it in the garden, the small rip was soon forgotten.

This was so easy to plant up, all I took was a 16" moss basket, lined with moss, then filled with sterilized hanging basket mix and planted up with; fragrant blue madness petunias, pink petunias, million bells, bidens, marguerite daisies and trailing snapdragons. Next, I simply nestled the basket into the chair and tucked moss in around the edges. This chair gets watered daily and fed with a rain Grow liquid fertilizer every two weeks.

The blue hydrangeas were left over from a friends wedding centrepieces so I just poked them in, the colour worked perfectly! I enjoyed the cut hydrangeas for a week and then simply removed them.

For the winter I will remove and compost the basket, hose down the chair and tuck away until next year, I'm considering a basket full of white bacopa and blue scaviola.