FIVE BASKET HEROES

1 BACOPA ‘SNOWFLAKE’

Good in sun or semishade, bushy, trailing plants are smothered with tiny, snowy white flowers until the first frosts.

2 BEGONIA ‘APRICOT SHADES’

Trailing down to 18in, its stems are studded with mostly double, 4in-wide flowers in shades of apricot and orange.

3 NEMESIA ‘FAIRY KISSES VANILLA BERRY’

Compact mounds of foliage form the backdrop to purple and yellow flowers that pack a strong scent of vanilla.

4 PETUNIA ‘TUMBELINA PRISCILLA’

Bred in Cambridgeshire, it boasts 3ft-long trailing stems that carry scented, heavily veined, double lilac flowers.

5 FUCHSIA ‘PATIO PRINCESS’

An upright, bushy form, pictured below, that grows to 20in and produces masses of red and white flowers throughout the summer.