I started everything in this window box from seed. This is the first time I've ever tried window boxes. I think I over did the planting just a bit? I wanted to be sure I'd have nice full boxes; now I have these little jungles. DH says he likes them because of their full and "flowy" look. (flowy, sloppy, eye-of-beholder thing..) I think I should jerk out some of that alyssum (I've already cut back alot of it that was setting seed).
Suggestions? Random comments? :)
Thanks,
Deb
Step away from the pruning shears and implements of digging. It looks BEAUTIFUL!!!
i cant see the container for the trees(grin)...seriously tho, the photo is cut off so that i cant see the container it is in....or maybe that is the design....; anyway, lovely:)
Sticks: LOL! You can't see that tiny bit of terracotta color peeking out there?... It's a 36" long window box and it looks pretty much the same all-the-way-across. :) Chock full.
This is why the seed packet instructions always say to "thin" the seedlings.
Unique: Thanks for being kind. ;->
Deb
those are from seeds? wowoowowowowowo!!!
Yes, some were wintersown an some were sown direct in spring. Who knew?
Deb
i love it ...what is wintersewn and what is spring?...ie the names...
Great job, Deb. I love it when it looks so lush and full. Do it again next year, the same way - overseed.
Sticks: if memory serves (which is doesn't always these days), I winter-sowed the impatiens, alyssum, & sweatpea. I indoor startd the lobelia, and the viola was direct sown. I believe in a fit of panic, I also direct sowed some more alyssum.
Pirl: Thanks, I probably will overdo it again, but I will force myself to back off the alyssum. (There's a white bacopa on the left end that's getting a bit drowned out by the alyssum overgrowth. :)
Deb
People would pay a lot for that window box!!! Don't you dare touch it...it's purty near purfect!
First of all - BEAUTIFUL!!! Secondly, they look like all annuals which is fine to jam together - it's what the professionals do (I used to be one). If there are a few perennials in there, they may need to be potted up next year. The only thing to look out for is the pot quickly drying out. Lots o' plants competing for water/nutrients. If it gets lanky by mid-summer, you could prune back a bit and get some new growth again. Very impressive!!!
You are all very kind. :-)
Khopton: These boxes do dry out very fast. I've been watering them daily. I probably need to ferilize now, too.
Deb
Deb! It looks absolutely gorgeous! As much as you think it's too full, just leave it alone!!!! hehehe. Like Khopton says...annuals look better clumped together. That's one fine container!
Kathy
yeah, you're probably better off using a water soluble fertilizer (something like Miracle Gro or similar). That way you can feed and water at the same time!!
I guess I'll leave these boxes all chock full like they are!
Thanks for the tip Khopton.
Funny, but my original plan was one blue, one yellow, and one white flower. Got carried away as I often do. :)
Deb
Oh Deb I'm with everyone else on this thread. Leave it be; it is a beautiful window box. Just love all the colors of the flowers and the frilly foliage.
I don't think you can have too many flowers in any container(LOL) but i am serious.....it is great looking!!
Deb, that is fantastic! I love those colors together, your DH is right it is flowy, eye of the beholder, etc.
Be sure to keep this photo or remember what seeds you put in there and do it again next year for me. LOL
Thanks all of you for the encouragement. :)
We'll see how these boxes look as the heat of summer takes hold!
Deb
It's the whole cottage garden concept in one windowbox. Really lovely.
Zeppy: Brilliant description! That'll be my story from now on. :)
Deb
(PS/A slightly longer shot. It's still "flowy".)
Deb
I love your window box.The overdone look is exactly what I'm trying to do.Cottage garden as much as you can.For me that means sticking as many plants as you can in a given place.
Cottage garden,jungle,whatever it just looks great.
Love it!!
Susan
I agree with everybody else. And I find it's hard to get that over-sown look without some seeds. Bought annuals don't seem as willing to be squeezed like that.
So yellow pansies, pink sweet peas, blue lobelia and white bacopa and alyssum? Gorgeous....
xxx, Carrie
Geez, that is really cool! Those annuals surely aren't happy in a SC summer, are they?
They'd fry out by Father's day here...BUUUUT, maybe I could have some filler boxes with zinnias and hot weather annuals in the nursey area to fill in when the cool weather ones have fizzled out. Just switch out the boxes on July 4th or something. Hmmmm. (I don't even have window boxes, much less duplicate ones I could switch out -- I am just dreaming.)
Well, I doubt I could duplicate it no matter how hard I tried, but yours is very cool, and I'd love to have it here !!
Suzy
Did you overdo it???
In a word............ NO!!!!
I love the look!
Nancy
it looks great if it wasn't a window box it might need height but as a window box its BEAUTIFUL
Illonquin -
The "nursery area"? What exactly is a nursery area? The kitchen table? Maybe you mean the patio, which was the staging area all spring but now is the patio. I need to check into this nursery area concept....
And is that LLLONQUIN or ILLONQUIN or IILONQUIN or what? I mean it's clearly some permutation of I (capital eye) and l (lower case ell) but how do we poor schmucks, without even a nursery area to call our own, tell the difference?
[Note to self: Illonquin doesn't even have window boxes!]
xxxx, Carrie
Illoquin: The window boxes are on an east facing wall, so by 1pm they're shaded. Otherwise they'd surely be totally wasted by now!
Deb
PS: I'd like a nursery area, too. :)
Oh, Carrie, You're so funny -- It's Illoquin, don't you know what that means?
The Nursery area is where you put your wintersowing pots LOL! The patio or just off it, somewhere near the hose. Unless you live at Hidcote, then you have a separate garden and greenhouse round the side of the house just for your little babies that you'd plug into holes in the garden. That's my dream (not Hidcote, but the nursery. ) Maybe I ought to work on windowboxes first, tho.
Suzy
P.S. It's a shame I used such a stupid name when I signed up, but I was in a rush and didn't give it much thought....so I used a name I use on another forum, where I couldn't use the name I wanted when I signed up, which was Chiloquin, so I just took off the CH. NOW of course, when the cursor isn't blinking at me to hurry up., I can think of a bunch of good names!
