What are you putting in your window boxes this year?

[hatredisnotavalue]

I just saw some English movie, I forget what, where they used, yellow, orange and purple flowers in an outdoor arrangement. Those are the colors I am going for this year. We painted the log home a burnt orange, with green trim and I am going for large orange marigoles, yellow pansies and those pine tree shapped purple flowers.

I remember the movie was Mrs. Dalloway.

[Cuban_Liberal]

1. We're doing sage, begonias and geraniums, I think.

The geraniums may go in hanging pots, though.

:shrug:

[hatredisnotavalue]

2. Have you tried the scented ones?

I planted these geraniums last year and they are petite in leaf, but very aromatic and beautiful flowers. More flower than leaf.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. pansies are the winter flower of choice down here

I have too much shade for flowers but sometimes I get energetic and plant caladiums in the windowbox under my bay window. to outfox the cats and keep them from digging it up, I am thinking about sinking pots in the bedding mix and covering all with gravel and planting the caladiums in the pots. They do really well in that deep shady spot in our Texas heat.

Might do some pots of petunias, but every year I get dragonwing begonias at Calloway's when they sell the 4" pots and plant them in 12 and 14" pots. They go gangbusters and last me until late late fall. Every year i get more of them,too. They come in red and salmon pink, and they get very large


Pansies drop off in the heat around early May; they are everywhere from early October until May, then wax begonias and petunias take over.