Square Foot Gardening Rhubarb
Plants ideal for making an amazing display in Window Boxes
Here are some wonderful plants you can grow in window boxes:
Biennials
Canterbury-Bells. Choose biennial, with long-bells in purple, lavender, blue, pink and white. It's worth the effort, even if they die after flowering. In spring, garden centers offer samples grafted. For dramatic compositions, various groups together. You can grow from its own seed sown in June or July.
Foxgloves. Delicious, with high peaks covered with bells. Sow seed in June or July and winter plants young cold frame or in the garden covered with marsh hay or green branches. antiquated types have bells on one side of the tips, but the new hybrids have flowers all English around the stems. Pot-grown rosettes are available in the spring.
Herbs for Fragrance
If you like herbs and enjoy them in the kitchen, you can have an herb garden in containers. Try sun-loving rosemary, marjoram, parsley, sage, fennel, mint and chives in individual pots or tubs or other plants in large boxes. Growing up with them some of the scented geranium leaves,
Perennials and herbs such as rose, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon, apple and mint.
Some years ago, Mrs. Frances R. Williams of Winchester, Massachusetts, who was unable to raise herbs in your shady garden, decided to try them on your balcony nine square feet, which had sun until late. She used twelve baskets downtown and four cases of eggs, each filled with half-rotted compost to within four inches from the top. So three centimeters of fertilized soil was spread on top.
In two cases of egg, Mrs. Williams planted summer savory, and a dozen basil plants the other two. Dill marjoram, basil with lettuce leaves, narrow leaves French thyme, and sweet, also grew. All yielded enough for summer salads and winter drying. In some of the other baskets, Mrs. Williams planted small cherry-red fruit, red and yellow pear, plum and yellow varieties of tomatoes. Since the containers deep held moisture for a long time, they do not require daily watering. On the dark side of the house, baskets, filled mostly with compost, were planted with an open mind and Bibb lettuce leaf.
Vegetables
Vegetables can also be grown in containers, even if only for the purpose of romance. Kale and cabbage are attractive and always arouse curiosity. Grouped around a small pool or on a table, white eggplants in each fruiting pots are charming. Rhubarb in large Planters or boxes will accent a bold contemporary to the terrace. In containers, pens leaves of carrot, the linear foliage of onions, and tomato fruits, especially kinds of small size, are fun to watch and eat.
The pot garden offers an excellent opportunity to grow miniature plants, a new form of gardening that is increasing in popularity. In England, where the miniatures has become a growing hobby, it appeals strongly to older people, who like to mess with tiny plants in old stone sinks and other containers up to waist level.
Cacti
In hot climates with little rainfall, cacti and succulents can be the answer. They can be grown also in other areas, particularly for gardeners who like to travel without worrying about the container plants they leave behind. Foliage patterns and shapes of these plants are fascinating, and many extraordinary compositions can be achieved. Easy to grow, they need a dry land and are better in small vessels.
The water lilies and other water plants can be grown in small pots low, maybe a water lily with a sample size of Cyprus or floating hyacinth. In a large tub, Egyptian lotus, with its huge leaves and flowers rising several feet above the water surface, is a beautiful spectacle.
Bonsai
Japanese bonsai or dwarf trees also are container plants, but these are a specialty which is a study and the art itself. It is, however, increasingly popular, and books are available that tell how to train and maintain these dwarf trees and shrubs. Plants can be purchased from nurseries that specialize in this unusual aspect of Container Gardening.
Other perennials and biennials to grow are heuchera or coral-bells, veronica, showy stonecrop or sedum, helenium, Japanese iris, scabiosa, Shasta daisy, Lythrum, platy-codon flower or balloon pentstemon, peony, Oriental poppy, monarda or lemon balm, lavender, liatris, Tritoma, heliopsis, anthemis, gaillardia, gas plant, columbine, and a butterfly. Do not overlook the rock Garden Plants as Arabis, aubretia, basket-of-gold, snow-on-the-summer, thyme, viola, ajuga dianthus, primrose, and pinna. (A well illustrated catalog will help you select.)
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