Evergreen Plants Window Box Flower Planting

Creeping jenny is a glossy evergreen plant that drapes over the sides of window boxes with ease.
Evergreen plants window box flower planting. Licorice plant helichrysum petiolare michael davis getty images. English ivy is a lovely choice as a base plant for your window boxes. In winter when the bergenia has died back stems from yellow and redtwig dogwoods add to the yucca s colorful display. Fall and winter.
The best spiller plants for container gardens. Ivy thrives in lots of light conditions and is also drought tolerant. The leaves become yellow in the sun and turn deep green in the shade. Joseph s coat alternanthera dentata sweet alyssum alyssum maritimum trailing snapdragon creeping.
Choose a grass like pennisetum setaceum fireworks which has delicately frothy fronds and a vibrant purplish pink. They will survive through the year eliminating the need to replant as the seasons change. During the summer months it grows yellow cup shaped flowers that add cheer to the display. Helichrysum is grown for its small felt like leaves.
Lantana is another of my favorite trailing plants for window boxes. Use evergreen plants as a durable all season backdrop to your other window box elements or as the main attraction in your window planter. Combining a trailing vine with fall planted spring bulbs like dwarf iris iris reticulata. Evergreen plants are the ultimate in low maintenance window boxes.
Ornamental grasses add sensational height color and texture to a window box. Myrtle or periwinkle vinca minor common ivy hedera helix and wintercreeper euonymus fortunei. One pot four seasons yucca and bergenia are the core plants in this container shining in summer and fall. It cascades over the sides of the boxes and gives your flowers an attractive backdrop of green foliage.