Windowbox GardeningWith over 110 color step-by-step photos, this book shows different styles of sills, from Mediterranean to cottage style to Alpine troughs, along with decorative container choices, from baskets and pots to unusual, improvised containers. Covers windowbox gardening, composting, attaching a windowbox, and more. |
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alpine Andrew Lawson Arctotis aromatic attractive autumn bedding plants begonias Bellis perennis Bergenias blue bright buckets bulbs bushy choice color range combinations compact compost conifers containers crocuses cultivars dark David Joyce deciduous decorative deep dense diascias drainage holes early spring early summer evergreen flowering season foliage plants free-draining fuchsias garden plants gazanias grape hyacinths green leaves growing grown as annuals half-hardy annuals hardy height herbs hostas hybrids impatiens kinds late spring late winter leaf leaf shape litres loam-based lobelia long-term planting mid-spring miniature open garden orange ornamental osteospermums pale pansies pastel pelargoniums petals petunias Picture Library pink flowers planting scheme polythene potting compost pruning purple rhododendrons rock-garden plants scented Sedum spathulifolium shade shape shrubby shrubs sill silver skimmias species specimens stems style suitable summer display tall tender terracotta texture throughout summer topiary trough usually grown variegated white flowers window garden windowboxes windowsill yellow