Winter Window Boxes

During the winter, window boxes often get neglected, still holding the dead plants left over from spring and summer. Instead, you can turn your window box into a year-round garden by planting with varieties that can grow and bloom in early winter.

Materials:

• window box
• potting soil
• ornamental kale
• pansies and violas--various colors
• American bittersweet (accenting vine)
• 'Blue Girl' holly
• evergreens--junipers, boxwood prunings
• ponderosa pine cones
• johnny jump-ups

Instructions:

• Remove old annuals.
• Fill the window box with potting mix to one inch below the top.
• Place ornamental kale in the center for height.
• Add the pansies (tease roots before planting) and the violas.
• For more accents when these plants die off (once it turns cold), try adding American bittersweet, holly or evergreen prunings.
• Water thoroughly.

Also in this Episode

Winter Gardener : Episode TWG-102
•	Winter Window Boxes
•	Growing Herbs Indoors
•	Colossal Plant Collection
•	Mini-Mattock
•	Hellebores