Wooden Window Boxes

The embellishment  of building with window boxes  offer  many exciting possibilities  and well-planted window boxes can also  relieve the dullness  of blank walls  or mask commonplace,  unsightly  domestic  buildings, such as sheds.

Container-grown  plants  can be placed at ground level, by windows and on balconies,  hung from fixtures on walls or from porticoes,  or suspended above  doorways.  Simple forms of dressing  might use only one kind of container a window  box or a set of window  boxes,  for example. More ambitious schemes  might  coordinate plantings  in  a range of planters  - including troughs, window boxes and hanging  baskets .

come  alive with  bulbs planted in the previous autumn  snowdrops, crocuses.  dwarf daffodils, narcissi and low-growing tulips, hyacinths, scillas and dwarf  irises. Many summer  bedding plants grow perfectly in  window-boxes, but avoid tall growing kinds which  spoil the proportions of the window box. A charming-effect  can be created by mixing trailing plants,  like pelargoniums, lobelias and dwarf nasturtiums,  with petunias, marigolds, Begonia  semperflorens,  tuberous begonias and salvias. Do not overlook dwarf shrubs  and conifers which add form and permanency  to a window box: potentillas,  fuchsias, and the attractive  little bulb Cyclamen  coum, which flowers quite happily  in shade in early winter.