Picking Gift Basket Plants

Video Transcript

"Today we're building a plant basket. We have chosen our basket and now it's time to choose our plants. Each basket is a little bit different. If we were using a lower basket I would maybe use a smaller plant. But with this big basket we'll be able to use some of the bigger plants and have them turn out very nicely. First of all for the back of the plant basket you want the tallest plants. So we could choose our peace lily or our China doll. Even a rubber tree would be nice in the back. Or this variegated leaf plant. And I'm not sure, can't remember the name of it exactly. But we can put like 2 or 3 in the back and then we want some smaller ones to be in the front. So I think we're going to use in the front of the basket we're going to put a total of 5 plants in this big basket. We're going to use our variegated Pathos and the philodendron. And for a little bit added dimension we're going to use the Aurelia so that we have just a little bit different type of plant there. On second thought we might end up using the big variegated leaf one because that would add a really nice splash of color. So maybe we will do that one with the China doll. And maybe put the rubber tree in the middle. The rubber trees do very well in plant baskets. They stay small as long as they're in the basket and then as you transplant them into bigger pots they do get bigger."