What is your goal for the baskets and why perennials? Do you want to be able to winter over? Flowers, foliage? A mix of plants or a single variety? Do you want plants that will drape down?

Hi! I just thought perennials would be something different for hanging baskets. We always throw the annuals away at the end of the season and I got to thinking, why put all the time into caring for them if we're just going to throw them away. There's a lot of annuals that really put on a show and smell great however. I'd like to grow some perennials that flower. Draping down would be great as well. Thanks for replying :)

I think it depends if they are getting full sun and when you want them to flower... some perennials flower only in certain times, I have done some perennials in pots on my front porch in areas with full sun (or most of the day full sun) and at the end of fall I just transplant this to their permanent spot in my garden.

My winter hanging basket on my front porch has three evergreen grass types (brown carex, green carex and black mondo) in the center and trailing sedums Angelique, Dragonsblood and a green one whose name escapes me on the edges. In the summer I hang it elsewhere.

wintering over pots with perennials is rather complicated in my z5 MI ...

can it be done.. sure ... will you fail learning.. yes ... lol ..

but over time .. you will figure it out ...

in the alternative...you heal the plants into the veg garden. and let ma nature deal with them over winter.. and then repot in spring ...

be nice if you could add a big city name to your info ... z5 is half the US.. and rather diverse re: winter ...

ken

Kent Beauty oregano is pretty in pots. It's a perennial herb but it looks like it's flowering.

I wonder how Rozanne geranium would do in a pot. Mine gets 6' long stems but it could be pinched back. But it's got that trailing habit and it flowers all summer right into fall.

Those are some ideas for sunny locations.

I have Campanula Blue Clips in my pots.