Help make Corstorphine brighter and greener by adding flowers to your shopfront!
You can take part in three simple ways — hanging baskets, planters, and sponsorship with signage.
🌺 Hanging Baskets
Step-by-step
- Check your frontage – make sure there’s a solid wall or lintel above your window or door.
- Choose your bracket – use a strong wall-mounted bracket rated for outdoor baskets.
- Order your basket – standard 12–14″ baskets work well. Use trailing plants for colour and impact.
- Popular choices: petunias, geraniums, lobelia, ivy, fuchsia.
- Water regularly – ideally daily in dry weather; use a watering can with a fine rose.
- Feed weekly – add liquid plant food once a week for stronger blooms.
- Safety check – ensure fixings are tight and baskets don’t overhang the pavement.
💧 Tip: Add water-retaining gel to reduce watering needs.
🛠 Local suppliers
🌿 Planters & Tubs
Step-by-step
- Pick your spot – outside your shop, forecourt or frontage (check it doesn’t block pedestrians).
- Choose your container –trough planters look best and do not block the pavement.
- Add compost – use peat-free multipurpose compost with slow-release fertiliser.
- Plant for all seasons:
- Spring/Summer: begonias, marigolds, pelargoniums.
- Autumn/Winter: cyclamen, heathers, ivy.
- All year: small evergreens like box or euonymus.
- Water and tidy weekly – remove dead flowers to keep displays fresh.
- Optional: add a small sign showing your business supports Corstorphine in Bloom.
💬 Sponsorship Signage
What’s allowed
✅ Small plaque or sign showing your business name and logo.
✅ Mounted on your own planter or wall – not in the public pavement.
✅ Discreet and in keeping with surroundings.
Suggested wording:
“Sponsored by [Your Business Name] in partnership with Corstorphine in Bloom”
We can provide artwork and guidance to ensure all signs are consistent and approved.
🌻 Need Help?
- Installation advice: contact the suppliers listed
- Permissions: Edinburgh Council consent is needed for planters on pavements — we can help with this.
Let’s brighten up Corstorphine — one basket, one planter at a time! 🌼