Wow! I've grown them, but not with that kind of results. Those are beautiful. Thanks, Carrie, and thank you Roselee for posting.
Jim

Wow is right! Carrie....will you tell us how y ou do that?
thank you cynthia

How can we replicate those results? That is one amazing hanging basket! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, everyone...............it just wouldn't be Spring without them and petunias. I made two more baskets this week to put at the gazebo.

Gorgeous!

I'm still 10 days away from my last annual freeze date.

I left a pot of 'em out all winter. (it looked nothing like Carrie's cuz I'm not as good of a pot mama as Carrie)

I knew they would die, being annuals.... but dang it if that little plant hung in there! ALL winter it was green! I kept telling it and myself it wasn't gonna last much longer... BUT IT DID!! Through the snow and ice and cold it hung on.

It is blooming now.

Shame on me!! I think it deserves to be treated better, don't you?

Maybe I'll turn out to be as good a calibrachoas mama as Carrie one day.

Well, Carrie, I was encouraged to try calibrachoas after seeing your gorgeous baskets.
Oh, what is that plant with the blue flower spikes in the last photo?
Molly

That is Mexican bluebells, Molly...............given to me by a dear gardening friend. She knows blue in the garden is one of my favorites, so she is always finding new BLUE plants to bring me. I really like this one though the blooms are short lived.

Carrie,
Question about your hanging baskets:

How many plants are in each basket?

This is something I'm never sure about, just how many starter pots are put in such a basket to get that full, solid round booming shape?

Do you plant only in the top or do you also stick plants in through the sides?

Do you put anything between the soil and the coir?
I've read in some places a suggestion to line the inside with some of the plastic bag that potting soil comes in, poking a few holes for drainage to keep the pot from drying out too fast and help hold the soil in.
Do you do that?

Actually this year, Gail, I came up with the idea of putting the plastic hanging basket inside the coconut liner so I did not have to water so much. And as to how many, depends on the size of the container of the plant purchased. If it is large enough, I put only one, but this particular one has three . I just made two more for the gazebo and I put only one in each of them...............they have not grown enough yet to see if that was enough, but the basket is pretty full, so I really think it will be. I put only one in a deep container (no basket) and it has filled out nicely...................so I am still experimenting. The containers of "mini;s" I had last year made it through the winter outside just fine and are blooming away.

WOW.. one tiny little plant makes all those blooms?????

It must be your magic fingers!

I must not have worded my post right as I thought I said the hanging basket has THREE plants.............one of each color.

Ahh,.. as I re read your post I see that you did put 3 in that hanging basket... still, that's a lot of blooms!

I agree, but they really like the cooler weather and I think this has made it bloom more. Anyway, whatever the reason, I am really enjoying it.