Q-Last summer in Austria I couldn`t get over the incredible profusion of flowers on the ivy geraniums. Are the window-box varieties available in America? A-Today`s balcony geraniums do go all to bloom ...

These best flowers for window boxes will bring colorful plant life into your home, even if you don’t have a garden. Consider these blooms and greens to brighten the exterior of your home or apartment.

Window boxes are containers that are usually oblong in shape and attached below windows on the outside. They're often made of wood but can be made of many different materials. I have clients who use ...

The gardening world has a tried-and-true formula for the perfect window box: a thriller, a filler and a spiller. You simply can’t go wrong with a tall red geranium amid a tranquil bed of white ...

Window boxes are charming miniature gardens with all the same horticultural potential of a big flowerbed in the ground. Because the scale is limited, you'll need to concentrate on smaller plants, but ...

My terrace apartment faces west and I was wondering what flowers would be good to plant in window boxes. The sun is very strong in the summer and I would like to know what flowering plants can ...

Why are some window boxes so beautiful while others are so blah? It's all about design, according to Sonia Uyterhoeven, the gardener for public education at The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.

You may not have the time and energy to weed and maintain lovely perennial flower beds — or even to grow a few tomatoes, carrots and beans. But if you love flowers, you can have a window box or a big ...

Some of my very favorite garden plants are the true geraniums; aka hardy geranium, perennial geranium and cranesbill geranium. Ketzel Levine, author of “Plant This” and former Oregonian and NPR ...

What’s in a name? The name geranium brings several things to mind: The stalwart red blooms we see everywhere from memorial plants marking a loved-ones grave to mass borders in ahome landscape to a ...