| How about creating a wonderful Spanish style patio | | | | Your patio ideas will start to sparkle with your choice |
| with a fantastic array of flowers and plants cascading | | | | of plants. Traditional summer bedding plants often |
| down the walls, peaking through trellis or hiding some | | | | sold by garden centres for use in hanging baskets |
| unsightly downpipes? Think of your vertical space, | | | | are candidates. Pelargoniums and standard trailing |
| reach for the sky and your patio will suddenly come | | | | geraniums in searing red really punch out from a |
| alive with some great patio ideas. It's quick and easy | | | | white background. Trailing fuchsias can look stunning. |
| to do. All you need is think of Spain and think of | | | | But don't stop there. Add some ferns, evergreens, |
| Spanish Rings flower pot holders. They have been | | | | grasses or even a selection of succulents. Feeling |
| specially designed to fit on walls, trellis and pipes or | | | | crazy? Then how about some cherry tomatoes or |
| posts. The rings are strong and made of mild steel | | | | strawberries for some random planting punctuation! |
| then coated with pvc to withstand the elements. | | | | One last patio idea to add to all your patio ideas. It's |
| Creative patio ideas will come flooding to you. Just | | | | a hot summer's night (we wish!) and you're sipping a |
| think of the different elements you can arrange to | | | | glass of something chilled. On the wall you've given |
| suit your garden designer's eye. First you can decide | | | | some plants the night off. Instead you've replace the |
| on the size of Spanish Rings to fit your flower pots - | | | | 'planted' pot with an empty one. Added a small |
| these are currently available to hold small, medium or | | | | saucer to the bottom to block the drainage hole and |
| large pots that hold pots up to a top rim-to-rim | | | | placed a citronella candle on a bed of sand. The |
| diameter of 8" or 20cm. You can use either plastic or | | | | flickering glow of the candle dances over the walls |
| clay/terracotta pots or even conical baskets that will | | | | and keeps those blasted midges away - all at the |
| 'sit' either higher or lower in the Ring depending on | | | | same time. Superb. |
| the flare of the pot or basket. | | | | |