Winter window boxes

BrianJD

Hi

Every year I make up some window boxes with Petunias and they looked fantastic this year until the rain destroyed them. I hate the bare look of my windows when the boxes are put away so I'm looking for some ideas of what I can put in them for the winter.

Really I would love someone to tell me exactly and the quantity I should get for boxes about 2 ft wide. Pics would help!!

Thanks

looksee

For winter boxes you could use pansies, small cyclamen, a few miniature daffodil bulbs to flower in spring. Look out for a few small, evergreen shrubby or conifer plants - there are many that will be quite inexpensive - to give a bit of fullness of greenery. In a two foot box (and depending on how big from front to back) you could put maybe 2 evergreens, 4 pansies and 3 cyclamen, with a dozen small daffs scattered between them. Or three evergreens and 4 cyclamen, whatever you prefer really. Use John Innes compost rather than potting compost.

countrywoman

i love the ornamental cabbages also. they look good in my boxes every autumn/winter

BrianJD

looksee wrote: »

For winter boxes you could use pansies, small cyclamen, a few miniature daffodil bulbs to flower in spring. Look out for a few small, evergreen shrubby or conifer plants - there are many that will be quite inexpensive - to give a bit of fullness of greenery. In a two foot box (and depending on how big from front to back) you could put maybe 2 evergreens, 4 pansies and 3 cyclamen, with a dozen small daffs scattered between them. Or three evergreens and 4 cyclamen, whatever you prefer really. Use John Innes compost rather than potting compost.

Brilliant. That's the detail I need and was hoping for!

kevin67

i prefer heather as think it looks great

and then in summer i can remove and plant in garden