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I’m in love with the window boxes on my front porch this year. \u00a0I keep taking pictures of them so that I’ll be able to recreate them next year, because the days are growing shorter and colder, and soon they’ll be no more…<\/p>\n

My husband built the window boxes that I have hanging on the railing around the front porch of my house. We also have smaller window boxes on the back shed, but these are so shallow they can’t hold much. (Confession time: this year, I put silk flower in the shed window box. Since I never water them, and most people only see them from afar, it didn’t matter, did it?)<\/p>\n

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I usually plant geraniums in my window boxes:<\/p>\n

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But this year, I mixed it up a bit. In the early spring, I planted pansies, then I moved the pansies into the garden under a tree, where I hoped the shade would keep them growing even in the hot weather. Pansies like cool weather, and the hot Virginia summer sun generally turns them into brown husks before long.<\/p>\n

Even though I moved them, the pansies had other ideas. Many left behind seeds, which eventually grew into tumbles of pansies amid the summer-blooming geraniums and petunias. The seeds grew in only one window box, however:<\/p>\n

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What I love most about the window boxes this year is how the petunias cascade over the sides of the boxes. I planted dark pink geraniums in the middle of each window box, and pink, white or dark purple petunias on either side of each geranium. The central dark pink flower visually linked all the boxes together, while the colorful petunias added some interest and texture.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Tips for Great Window Boxes<\/strong><\/p>\n