Lantana is another of my favorite trailing plants for window boxes.
Evergreen plants window box flower planting.
It cascades over the sides of the boxes and gives your flowers an attractive backdrop of green foliage.
The leaves become yellow in the sun and turn deep green in the shade.
Choose a grass like pennisetum setaceum fireworks which has delicately frothy fronds and a vibrant purplish pink.
In winter when the bergenia has died back stems from yellow and redtwig dogwoods add to the yucca s colorful display.
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.
This hardy creeping perennial grows in both sunny and shady areas.
During the summer months it grows yellow cup shaped flowers that add cheer to the display.
The best spiller plants for container gardens.
Combining a trailing vine with fall planted spring bulbs like dwarf iris iris reticulata.
Fall and winter.
English ivy is a lovely choice as a base plant for your 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.
Helichrysum is grown for its small felt like leaves.
Licorice plant helichrysum petiolare michael davis getty images.
Joseph s coat alternanthera dentata sweet alyssum alyssum maritimum trailing snapdragon creeping.
Creeping jenny is a glossy evergreen plant that drapes over the sides of window boxes with ease.
The most familiar is a.
Evergreen plants are the ultimate in low maintenance window boxes.
Ivy thrives in lots of light conditions and is also drought tolerant.