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