Take the opportunity to get creative with a mix of winter blooms, evergreens, bulbs and berries that will demand attention right through the cool season to lift lack lustre front yards. Putting ...

Window boxes give gardeners an affordable outlet to do what they love most: experiment. Known as one of the first living walls, window boxes have been a longtime favorite of gardeners. Window boxes ...

Do you want to improve the curb appeal of your house? Adding a window box planter is one way to do that. The outlook of your home is as important as the indoor look is. Window boxes are very special ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy. May ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... While there are few plantings that compare to the charm of window boxes overflowing with summer flowers, these days window boxes aren’t just for windows. Now ...

I tend to think window boxes are somewhat underrated when it comes to planting options around your home – and especially as a solution to a shaded area. They are too often ignored, left to dry out and ...

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 ...

A colorful combo of bright red ornamental peppers and frilly white ornamental cabbage spices up a cool-season window box. (Jorge Salcedo, Dreamstime.com) BY KRIS WETHERBEE Window box gardens are a ...

Large-leafed coleus is used as the focal point in a box that also includes pink begonias, needlepoint ivy and dark-purple sweet potato vine. Mariana Greene / Special Contributor Even at the height of ...

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.

Gardens come in all shapes, sizes, and locations—including growing out of boxes attached to windows. And while window boxes may not seem like gardens in the traditional sense, think of them as mini ...