{"id":685,"date":"2010-05-22T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2010\/05\/window-box-blooms.html"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:17:55","slug":"window-box-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2010\/05\/window-box-blooms.html","title":{"rendered":"Window Box Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/windowbox1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/windowbox1-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Skies are gray today and thunderstorms predicted for the afternoon, but the garden awaits. I plan to work in the vegetable garden today. It&#8217;s really a sorry sight as compared to last year&#8217;s bountiful harvest. I looked at photos from last year; sad, really.\u00a0 Watermelon seeds are going in if I have time. I also need to deadhead the roses and plant more tomatoes and snapdragons (see how it always turns back to flower gardening, no matter what I set out to do? It&#8217;s like my flowers are magnets, drawing me back to them&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I did want to share photos today of my window boxes. My husband made these for me as a birthday gift from pine boards picked up at the hardware store. We&#8217;d looked into fancy contraptions from garden centers and home catalogs, but nothing suited us. So he made these and mounted them onto the wooden porch rails. The flower combination was pure serendipity: we found geraniums on sale for 99cents and the lobelia pack was left over from a bunch of annuals he bought in the spring. I had no idea all the geraniums were two different shades of\u00a0 pink. How do you like the pink and blue combination? The lobelia has just started spilling over the edges of the window boxes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a huge fan of geraniums, and I&#8217;ve even put more into the Mexican ceramic pots flanking the front steps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/windowbox2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/windowbox2-300x238.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"317\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skies are gray today and thunderstorms predicted for the afternoon, but the garden awaits. I plan to work in the vegetable garden today. It&#8217;s really a sorry sight as compared to last year&#8217;s bountiful harvest. 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I also&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2010\/05\/window-box-blooms.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1084],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-growing-flowers","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Window Box Blooms - Home Garden Joy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Window Box Blooms\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Skies are gray today and thunderstorms predicted for the afternoon, but the garden awaits. 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