Sun Versus Shade Window Box Plant Combinations
Sun Versus Shade Window Box Plant Combinations Most window box failures trace back to one decision made in five minutes at the garden center: the wrong plants for the light the box actually receives. A south-facing box in July gets a workout that would kill a shade-loving impatiens before the Fourth of July. A north-facing box in the same week is a dim, cool environment where a sun-hungry verbena will sulk all season and never flower properly. The plants want what they want, and a window box is too small a volume to forgive a mismatch. The right plant combinations are not secret, but the reasoning behind them is rarely explained. Here is how to think through it as a sequence of practical questions. How Do I Actually Measure The Light My Window Box Gets? "Full sun" and "shade" mean specific things in horticulture, and most homeowners overestimate the sun their windows get. The standard definitions from the Royal Horticultural Society and most cooperative...
