Best Plants For Flower Boxes In Sun

The plant comes in a variety of colors including the violet ice cultivar which boasts bright purple blooms.

Best plants for flower boxes in sun.

With the help of a window box exploding with flowers and trailing plants even an urban garden without an in ground planting area can be transformed into a stare worthy garden. Windows that face the south receive more sunshine in the northern hemisphere and is the area that sun loving plants grow best. Even though they are a succulent that likes sun sedum plants are very cold hardy and will get through winter fine. Sun loving verbena lends a cascading appearance to window boxes and other containers.

When choosing plants for your box consider placing plants together with similar water humidity and temperature requirements. Often overlooked for window boxes are foolproof flowering bulbs. A more upright variety will work the best as a container plant such as black jack brilliant and showy stonecrop. It is also vital that you select plants that will grow well in your growing zone.

Plants that tolerate partial sun and shade grow well on the east side of the house while shade loving plants grow best on a north facing side. That also means they can outgrow a pot in a few years. Whether you do a fall planting of miniature daffodils snowdrops or hyacinths for springtime bloom or you do a late spring planting of lilies alliums or dwarf gladiolus for summertime bloom be sure to tuck a few bulbs and corms into your window boxes for added impact.