Container with accessories |
So today my quest began for flowers for my window boxes on
the back porch. I dumped out the old potting soil into my compost pile and
added new fresh potting yesterday. So they are prepped and ready to go.
The other day I was seduced by pots of soft peachy coral petunias, white verbena and bacopa... So I planted them up in a pot on the back porch. Here it is. I added a white ceramic mushroom and found this miniature garden stake that says "Hope" with a crescent moon. Who could resist that? Certainly not me.
As I
have white siding on my house and off white window boxes- I go for lots of color in the
window box arrangements. A few years a go I did all hot pinks and purples geraniums and
petunias, then one year I did yellow and peach with a touch of blue lobelia.
Pretty typical stuff. But this year I want to embrace my inner wild woman and
go crazy. And my inspiration for funkier window boxes comes from my friend
Sarah.
My friend Sarah is an amazing urban gardener. I wrote about
Sarah’s city gardens in my book Garden Witch’s Herbal. Sarah has a knack for
turning anything into a container. She has a lovely garden to be sure, however
I am always struck by severe container garden envy whenever I go to Sarah’s
house and see her gardens. She tosses the strangest things together in a mixed
flower pot and the results are jaw-dropping. It makes me crazy that flowers
that ought to be unappealing planted together are suddenly mind blowingly cool
in a container. No doubt about it Sarah’s got the knack.
Flowers before planting |
I think my own problem is that when it comes to planting my
own window boxes… I tend to think like a floral designer- and even though the
boxes are pretty, I tend to get a little precise. Which is funny when my design style in the yard is cottage
style gardening. So this year I am have embraced my inner “Sarah” and have mixed
and matched plants and I did let myself go crazy! Here are a few pictures.
The window boxes have a full sun exposure… so off I
trekked to the plant stand today and carefully selected my annuals. Varieties
of trailing petunias, lobelia, bacopa and verbena.
Setting the flowers out |
Finished Window box |
Here is a picture of one of the boxes all finished and hung on the house. So it was a nice morning's work. Because I was feeling industrious I swept up the patios and tidied up a bit. The I walked around the yard and took more pictures of the gardens.
Ellen's perennial garden 4-2012 |
Blessed be, Ellen
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