I have a wonderful window box but it is in the shade. I need a flowering plant to mix with the others......anything but inpatients. I'm in zone 9 and anything will grow. Bought a new self watering window box and it should do well. any ideas for the mixture?
thanks in advance...Dogwood
I went to parkseed and just looked up shade tolerant plants, they have a pretty big list with lots of flowers
Go to parkseed.com, click on seeds at the top, and chose shade-loving from the list. If anything it can be a good research tool. :)
HTH
What an enchanting spot!!! Is it your home, or a studio? What about coleus for color?
upright or trailing fuschias, Charmed oxalis, streptocarpella, begonias, alternantheras for foliage, not all these together btw,the colors don't match, just something to start with
oops didn't pay attention to the state, don't know if those I mentioned would like your climate
I have to agree with terichris and say the you garden is enchanting! Feeling a bit of zone envy as everytime I look outside I get to see giant mounds of snow.
What about some small bromeliads in your window box? They're extreamly colourful and theres probably many that would be zone appropriate! They'd fit right in with the rest of your garden as well!
Steven
It looks like it belonged to Earnest Hemingway in Key West!
It does :) *sigh* today here it's a whole 4 degrees above freezing!
woo hoo.
Thanks for the suggestions and compliments. The photo was last summers and is my garden shed that's call it Tara after Gone with The Wind ... found the columns on the road an they fit perfectly.
Our spring is wonderful now but the coastal summers are outrageously hot and full of big giant blood sucking marsh mosquitoes. I envy those cool northern summers.
Coleus sounds like a great idea!
I just got a fuschia hybrid 'Autumnale' that is labeled for shade and is supposedly bred to withstand the heat. I plan to use it in shady window baskets. The leaves are bright yellow with red/orange highlights. The pictures in plantfiles show it with fuschia flowers but I don't care if mine blooms or not, the colors are so bright and cheerful.
