It comes in several colors including a nearly black charmed velvet and a burgundy color called charmed wine.
Flowers for partial shade window boxes.
Choose the hanging varieties for a bit of overflow in your window box.
They come in almost all colors and shades except blue.
Pick plants that work in your usda hardiness zone and talk to the nursery or read the plant label to make sure it can handle the conditions in your yard.
Oxalis is a mounding plant and grows to be 12 to 18 inches high making it a good plant to use as filler in a container.
Impatiens accent white 3.
These plants often have bright blue blooms that are small and dainty which will add quite a bit of character to your window box especially if they are paired with a few slightly larger flowers.
Partial sun drought resistant flowers for a window box.
It is exceedingly easy to grow and likes partial shade to full shade.
They tend to have more blooms.
What else can i put in a window box besides flowers.
Part shade means it doesn t get more than 3 or 4 hours of sun daily.
Plants that tolerate partial sun and shade grow well on the east side of the house while shade loving plants grow best on a north facing side.
Here red white and hot pink impatiens fill a window box and provide a more cheerful view than the wall of dogwood foliage.
Surprisingly a window box display is an excellent way to highlight several orchids that are in bloom at the same time.
Full shade means the area never gets direct sunlight.
Orchids benefit from living outdoors at least part of the year basking in the refreshing breezes and natural humidity of the landscape.
Most varieties of fuchsia love the shade so as long as you avoid putting your window box in full sun the plant will reward you all season long with extravagant purple and pink blossoms.
Impatiens accent watermelon 3.
Whether you do a fall planting of miniature daffodils snowdrops or hyacinths for springtime bloom or you do a late spring planting of lilies alliums or dwarf gladiolus for summertime bloom be sure to tuck a few bulbs and corms into your window boxes for added impact.
The ideal light is bright filtered shade.
These plants are standard in window boxes containers and hanging plants.
Instead of three different plants choose three different colors of the best plants for planter boxes in shade.
Window boxes are not just for flowers.
The soil heats up because of the air circulating around the.
Window boxes tend to present flowers with drought like growing conditions.