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Flowers for balcony flower box

artvandelay48 · 2016-09-01 11:00:13

I want to have a couple of flower boxes for flowers over the next couple of months and I was wondering what my options are. Are cyclamens really the only colourful flowers that will survive colder months? Will they last a few months or the whole winter? Are there any other options?

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01-09-2016 12:00pm

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artvandelay48

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I want to have a couple of flower boxes for flowers over the next couple of months and I was wondering what my options are. Are cyclamens really the only colourful flowers that will survive colder months? Will they last a few months or the whole winter? Are there any other options?

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#2 01-09-2016 7:11pm
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Pansies are good, and readily available; don't expect to get more than one season from them though. Cyclamens are also useful, though I don't think you will get more than a month out of them. There are other autumn plants but not all that readily available - some asters for example, and small chrysanths. Some established plants will continue to bloom pretty much up to Christmas.

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