Best Plants For Sunny Flower Boxes

Small red flowers adorn it in winter.

Best plants for sunny flower boxes.

Give jewel box distylium a go. These profuse bloomers are extremely forgiving and come in a wide range of colors. They are drought tolerant and only need an average amount of water. The 1 inch diameter flowers have almost transparent petals surrounding the centers.

Verbena is a great container garden plant for the sun because it will flower all summer long and even into the fall. Fill in with things like wandering jew ivy euonymus heather or vinca which will cascade over the edge of the box. Petunias geraniums zinnias nasturtiums and begonias are good choices for main theme flowers. Smaragd zones 2 7 provides excellent year round interest because it maintains its rich green color in winter.

The upright narrow habit of this cultivar of our native arborvitae fits the bill as the vertical accent that many containers need. Plant in moist well drained soil. Some varieties of angelonia have larger blooms while dwarf varieties are the perfect size for container gardens. Plant it in full sun or light shade emerald arborvitae thuja occidentalis emerald syn.

Zinnias zinnia elegans are the best friends of a sunny window box. As a bonus verbenas are great for attracting butterflies. Varieties grow from 6 inches high to 36. It grows best in sun but flowers well in part shade too.

Its spikes of purple white or pink flowers appear all summer long no matter how high the mercury rises. The fragrant blossoms attract birds of all types including hummingbirds and are also useful as cut flowers. More subtle choices include coleus heliotrope and salvia. Deer usually don t bother it.

Jewel box tops out at 2 to 3 feet high and 3 to 4 feet wide. More than 400 universities and botanical gardens have named it one of their top plants. When you plant diamond frost euphorbia you re planting one of the most award winning plants ever developed. Don t let the fact that it s new and you ve never heard of it dissuade you.

The cultivar white licorice is actually silver white while lemon licorice. They are low maintenance drought tolerant and deer resistant. Homeowners often choose licorice plant helichrysum petiolare for window boxes because of its unique felted foliage. This adaptable flower is sometimes called summer snapdragon.

Soft thin evergreen leaves line its refined layered branches. Impatiens do well in shady locations.