A home with window boxes full of beautiful flowers looks quaint and charming. However, growing flowers in a window box entails more than merely installing a window box and placing flowers inside. If you choose the wrong flowers, they won't thrive and then you'll wind up with a flower box full of dead plants.
Growing flowers in a window box is merely container gardening. Apartment dwellers often grow vegetables in buckets or boxes on their patios with great success because the container is large enough to provide optimal growth. By the same token, home owners place a container—a window box—on the side of their house under a window in which to grow flowers, but they choose flowers that will thrive within the small container, with the proper amount of sunlight.
Factors to consider when growing flowers in a window box are the amount of sunlight the window box receives, the window box size, and access for maintenance. Follow these guidelines when choosing and planting flowers in a window box:
Keep in mind that window boxes are truly seasonal decorations, so do not plant flowers from seed. Purchase already-established plants, and then replant them inside of the window box.
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