Garden and Flowers

Window Box Gardening Tips and Techniques

Window box gardening offers apartment dwellers the enjoyment of gardening without a yard. Even if you have an actual yard to plant whatever you wish, you can still have a window box garden to enliven your windows and balconies.

For the best results in a window box garden, the box should be at least three to four feet long but not more than six feet. If larger, it will be way too heavy to suspend and secure properly and it cannot be lifted easily. Boxes resting on broad window ledges and on firm porch railings might be eight feet long, but hardly more since moving them becomes too hazardous.  Keep to a minimum depth of eight to nine inches, with a width of ten to twelve inches across the top. Of course, lengths must vary according to the window or series of windows or railing.

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Alonsoa Meridionalis A Peruvian Species Summer Flower

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In the course of the summer, this Peruvian species may grow quite tall, up to about 32 in in height. It produces a lot of medium-sized leaves and bears small, soft-orange to red flowers, about V4 in wide, over a long period. The mass of foliage makes them less striking than many of the smaller cultivars. Even so, it is the light color of the leaves and the informal appearance that make this species so suitable for cheerful borders. The flowers are also suitable for including in informal bouquets. Picking rejuvenates the plant and makes it flower all the longer. If you think it is becoming too untidy, just cut it back hard in summer to force new growth and bring forth new flowers.

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