Window Boxes Planters

Window boxes are a great way to add flowers to an area that would otherwise be flowerless. They add a great pop of color to a dull drab window and they make a pretty window even prettier.

Window boxes can fit into any design and style home you might have. It's a question of choosing the correct one for your house style and the look you want to achieve. There are many types and styles of planter boxes available to fit almost every window, deck and railing. The traditional window boxes were made of wood, typically using redwood, cedar or pine, with styles ranging from basic utilitarian rectangular boxes to ornately decorated Victorian window accessories. A variety of planter boxes are also offered in metal, plastic and composites.
- An All Green Window Box. Here a combination of mostly green and white plants break up the plain exterior of building. Still, it's a conservative planting. The only subtle color addition is the purple variety of coral bells in the middle.
- A Nice Bright Combination of Flowers. This is an unusual mix of flowers and plants. An example of putting one of each different colorful plant. There is an orange gerbera daisy plant right next to some curly leaf parsley; but it works. After the parsley, there is a clump of Serengeti upright (violet + white) nemesia. A yellow gerbera daily is followed by calibrachoa superbells in cherry red. Behind them are some purple dome asters.
- Super Colorful Assortment. This window box has a background of geraniums; some true red and some just a little darker. In front of them there are mixed marigolds and purple and red verbena.
- Pansies and Ornamental Kale. Often we see pansies as the first flowers of spring. In Victorian times, pansies were a fall flower. They are extremely hardy in the autumn as well early spring. Many nurseries, now carry pansies in the fall. This arrangement with the pansies actually stood up well until the second week in September.

Make a simple cleat system for hanging projects such as birdhouses and this window box. The cleat is made by ripping a scrap piece of stock on a 45-degree angle. As show in the diagram, one piece is attached to the window box, and locks into the second piece that is attached to garden shed. There is a huge variety available on the market today of window planters of all sizes and shapes. You can add brackets to the teak planters, to display them as window boxes under neath your window or balcony. Or they can be manufactured with feet and make a beautiful path lining, or doorway display.