A hanging basket is a suspended container used for growing decorative plants. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae.
Hanging baskets, normally made from wire, are hung from buildings, where garden space is at a premium, and from street furniture for environmental enhancement. A wire is a single usually cylindrical, elongated string of drawn Metal. Street furniture is a collective term for objects and pieces of equipment installed on streets and roads for various purposes including benches, Bollards Post They may also be suspended from free standing frames sometimes called hanging basket trees.
Plants used may include geraniums, begonias, fuschia, and trailing plants such as lobelia. Gardeners often use the name "geranium" to mean Pelargonium: see below. Begonia is a Genus in the Flowering plant family Begoniaceae. Fuchsia is a Genus of flowering Plants mostly Shrubs and can grow long shoots which were identified by Charles Plumier in the late-17th Lobelia is a Genus of Flowering plant comprising 360–400 species with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily
Safety
Safety concerns have been raised over hanging baskets. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland In February 2004, Suffolk County Council ruled there was a risk that baskets, part of the annual summer floral displays in Bury St Edmunds, could fall from lampposts and injure the public. Suffolk County Council is the administrative authority for the county of Suffolk, England, providing a range of services under the control of elected county councillors Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England and formerly the County town of West Suffolk. A street light, lamppost, street lamp, light standard or lamp standard, is a raised source of Light on the edge of a Road After an outcry this decision was reversed the following month. [1]
Water usage
Because of hosepipe bans due to drought, Local Authorities in South East England reduced the number of hanging baskets in public displays in spring 2006. An outdoor water-use restriction is a Ban or other lesser Restrictions put into effect that restricts the outdoor use of water Supplies. A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a State. South East England is one of the nine official Regions of England. [2]
References
- ^ "Town lifts hanging basket 'ban'", BBC News, 9 March 2004
- ^ "Drought threatens death of the hanging basket", The Daily Telegraph, David Derbyshire and Rebekah Curtis, 25 March 2006
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