Planting a flower rope ladder: ideas & procedures

There are many ways to put plants in the limelight in a space-saving way. We show how a rope ladder with hanging plants becomes a real eye-catcher.

Flowers are a great addition to every garden and balcony, but they also need plenty of space. Residents of small households in particular are therefore always on the lookout for ideas for plant cultivation that takes up as little space as possible. For example, a great way to save space is "Vertical Gardening" - here the plants are not planted next to each other, but on top of each other. What sounds complicated can easily be copied at home: In this article, we will explain to you how to build a great hanging basket from an old rope ladder.

An old rope ladder can be found unused in many households. With a little craftsmanship and simple materials, you can turn the unused ladder into a decorative and useful hanging basket.

Required material for a planted rope ladder

Anyone who thinks that you need a lot of elaborate materials to build a flower ladder is wrong. In fact, most things can be found in every household, because all you need is:

• Knitters
• Flower pots
• line
• Potting soil
• Stones
• Flower fertilizer
• plants
• drilling machine
• scissors

Procedure for planting the rope ladder

If you want to make your own flower ladder, you should first start with the preparations for the individual plant pots. Metal flower pots are best suited for the flower ladder. Plastic pots have the disadvantage that they weather quickly and are often not as resistant. Terracotta and clay, on the other hand, are often too heavy for the ladders and are also difficult to work with by laypeople. For pots that do not yet have holes for the water drain on the underside, these should be provided with a Drill must be re-drilled - otherwise there is a risk that the plants will later become waterlogged To suffer. In addition, you should drill two opposite holes a few centimeters below the edge of the flower pot. The string on which the flower pots are to hang later can then be pulled through these holes.

Now the individual flower pots can be planted. To do this, you should first fill the individual pots with a thin layer of pebbles - this also ensures better drainage. Now one can high quality potting soil be filled. In order to enable the flowers to grow optimally, it is advisable to first soil the soil with a primarily organic flower fertilizer such as ours Plantura organic flower fertilizer to be mixed to create a sufficient concentration of nutrients for the plants. After planting, the flowers should also be sufficiently watered again to allow them to grow optimally.

Now the rope ladder comes into play: it is placed in a suitable place (the flower ladder looks particularly good when it is freely suspended). Then the individual flower pots are attached to a rung of the rope ladder with cords so that they hang in the spaces in between. With smaller flower pots, several plants can be attached to one rung - groups of three, in which the individual plants have different heights, work particularly well here.

Examples and ideas for flower rope ladders

Would you like to design a flower ladder yourself, but you don't know which plants should have a place here? We have selected a few inspirations for you.

In fact, you can use almost any plant for the flower ladder that turns out to be Container plant let cultivate. However, they work particularly well Hanging plants as the fuchsia (Fuchsia), the petunia (Petunia) or the male loyal (Lobelia erinus) in the airy location. But even evergreen plants like ivy (Hedera helix) or the pea on the ribbon (Senecio rowleyanus) cut a fine figure - with their long, drooping stems they are extremely decorative.

If you not only value optics, but also like to think practically, you can also set up a cooking ladder instead of a flower ladder: Many aromatic plants like basil (Ocimum basilicum), thyme (Thymus) or rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) can be grown perfectly in the flower pots. An insider tip for the hanging basket is the hanging mint (Satureja douglasii), also known as Indian Mint, which impresses not only with its taste, but also with its hanging shoots up to 1.5 meters long. But also hanging ones Strawberry varieties (Fragaria) or potted blackberries (Rubus fruticosus) are ideal for mounting on the ladder.

The flower ladder, on the other hand, is particularly environmentally friendly if you take it with you bee-friendly plants equipped. In contrast to many highly cultivated balcony flowers, these contain enough nectar and pollen to adequately take care of the hard-working helpers. When putting together the individual types of flowers, you should make sure that you use both early and autumn flowers so that the bees can find enough food all year round.

Which plants are particularly suitable for bee-friendly flower boxes are suitable, find out here.