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Spring Window Boxes in Charleston

4/18/2018

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In Charleston’s historic district, most houses extend nearly to the sidewalk or street. So, the only visible gardening space people have is window boxes. These boxes of bright flowers have come to play a vital role in the city’s appearance.
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Thanks to Southern Living, below is a list of plants that make for great window box options. They divide the plants into three types. Thrillers are big eye-catching plants. Fillers are smaller and used to fill space. Spillers grow over the boxes edges and dangle.

Cool-Weather Window Box Plants
  • Thrillers -- variegated English boxwood, snapdragons, holly fern, tulips, hyacinths, geraniums, delphinium, foxglove
  • Fillers-- pansy, viola, ornamental kale and cabbage, stock, tuberous begonia, primrose, candytuft, snapdragon, dusty miller, wallflower, calendula, English daisy, diascia, osteospermum, petunia
  • Spillers-- bacopa, edging lobelia, ivy geranium, nasturtium, English ivy, callibrachoa, spotted dead nettle (Lamium)

Warm-Weather Window Box Plants
  • Thrillers-- cordyline, phormium, purple fountain grass, flowering maple, dracena, bromeliad, variegated yucca, croton, Chinese hibiscus, calla lily, hydrangea
  • Fillers-- angelonia, begonia, caladium, coleus, 'Diamond Frost' euphorbia, geranium, heuchera, impatiens, pentas, polka-dot plant, golden Japanese forest grass, ornamental pepper, Madgascar periwnkle, petunia, zinnia
  • Spillers-- callibrachoa, fanflower (Scaevola), lantana, ivy geranium, sweet potato vine, verbena, 'Silver Falls' dichondra, wishbone flower (Torenia), spider plant, variegated English ivy, pothos, licorice plant, yellow creeping Jenny, creeping rosemary, spotted dead nettle, wandering jew
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