Window boxes provide the opportunity to grow flowers fruit veg and herbs outdoors without the need for a garden.
Evergreen plants window box flower planting.
Like with blanket flowers you should pinch off the dead flowers to keep the plants blooming longer.
Large clusters of bright flowers including some brilliant blue ones that are very striking make this a very popular container plant.
Nasturtium plants form a mounding tumble of lily pad like leaves and bright cheerful flowers.
Use evergreen plants as a durable all season backdrop to your other window box elements or as the main attraction in your window planter.
Although they prefer the cooler seasons if kept watered they should bloom all season.
Here are six window box plants you can grow all year round in your boxes.
Ivy is probably the number one choice for an evergreen in a window box.
But holly and small conifers can work well too.
Advertisement when planting up your window box there are a few things you need to take into account.
You may need to rotate what plants are in the box during any given season but with these choices you ll have something growing in your box most of the months of the year.
Fill a full sun planter with pansies geraniums verbena and cascading sweet potato vine.
In summer creamy white fragrant flowers emerge from the center of the plant on 3 to 6 foot tall stems.
The entire plant is edible including the seeds and including some in your salad really makes it look fancy.
In late winter the foliage may get a little flat but it will perk up again in spring.
The best perennials to plant in window boxes.
Other lovely evergreen euphorbias to grow include euphorbia x pasteurii.
It s just plain sad to watch window box plants die off at the end of a long growing season.
Learn how to create a breathtaking window box for shade lovers with vinca begonias impatiens and variegated foliage.
While not the only evergreen euphorbia this species has some of the best foliage which looks fresh year round and it has a simple care regimen simply cut back flowered stems to their base once past their best beacon like flowers light up the garden in summer while the foliage sparkles with frost in winter.
Ivy top makes a good trailing plant for pots and window boxes.
Pull off the old foliage to maintain a tidy appearance.
8 verbena verbena sp what verbena flowers lack in size they make up for in number.