Lining a gift basket for flowers. How to line a wicker basket using a plastic garbage bag, the cheap way.
Line a wicker basket with some sort of plastic so you can fill it with soil or use floral foam so you can water the plants/flowers.
You can use the expensive thick liners especially made for this job, but why? We all have garbage liners in our kitchen so lets use what we have!
If you are making homemade gift baskets with potted plants, bulbs, fresh cut flowers or pots of fresh herbs for an Easter gift basket, Christmas gift basket or a birthday gift basket, you will need to line the gift basket with plastic first. This is so the plants, bulbs, flowers or herbs can be watered and not make a mess everywhere.
This kind of basket can be used for herbs already in pots. Once lined just place your pots in the basket and fill in the spaces with green moss.
This lined basket is used for fresh cut flowers. If you are making a floral gift basket using fresh flowers, like Roses or Carnations, you will have to use a floral foam especially for fresh flowers.
This kind of gift basket filled with soil is used for bulbs, fresh herbs, fresh potted plants.
Gift baskets like these are easy to put together and makes great gifts for the garden enthusiast friend.
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