It cascades over the sides of the boxes and gives your flowers an attractive backdrop of green foliage.
Evergreen plants window box flower planting.
Creeping jenny is a glossy evergreen plant that drapes over the sides of window boxes with ease.
The best spiller plants for container gardens.
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Ornamental grasses add sensational height color and texture to a window box.
Licorice plant helichrysum petiolare michael davis getty images.
Use evergreen plants as a durable all season backdrop to your other window box elements or as the main attraction in your window planter.
They will survive through the year eliminating the need to replant as the seasons change.
Choose a grass like pennisetum setaceum fireworks which has delicately frothy fronds and a vibrant purplish pink.
Ivy thrives in lots of light conditions and is also drought tolerant.
The best perennials to plant in window boxes trailing plants.
During the summer months it grows yellow cup shaped flowers that add cheer to the display.
In winter when the bergenia has died back stems from yellow and redtwig dogwoods add to the yucca s colorful display.
English ivy is a lovely choice as a base plant for your window boxes.
Joseph s coat alternanthera dentata sweet alyssum alyssum maritimum trailing snapdragon creeping.
Lantana is another of my favorite trailing plants for window boxes.
Helichrysum is grown for its small felt like leaves.
One pot four seasons yucca and bergenia are the core plants in this container shining in summer and fall.
The leaves become yellow in the sun and turn deep green in the shade.
Combining a trailing vine with fall planted spring bulbs like dwarf iris iris reticulata.