WHO NEEDS SIGNAGE when you have overflowing window boxes like these? They literally stop traffic. I pass them almost daily, gracing the front of Della Femina, a restaurant in East Hampton, and more than once I’ve pulled over for a closer look.
There are three of them on the brick storefront. They are massive — each several feet long and at least a foot deep – and they are stuffed.
Here’s what’s in them, far as I can make out:
- nasturtiums
- New Zealand impatiens
- English ivy
- sweet potato vine
- purple lantana
The keys to maintaining boxes like these: food and water. Dense container plantings need frequent feeding and copious water – at least once a day, twice in very hot weather.
Thus inspired, I stopped at a local nursery to buy some sun-loving annuals for the narrow patch of brightness along the back wall of my house. They look pretty insignificant right now — pathetic, really — but I promise that when they fill out, you’ll see pics.
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July 8, 2009 at 8:35 am
Mary-Liz
Looks like some purple angelonia in there too! Gorgeous!
July 8, 2009 at 10:45 am
ErayB
While we are talking flowers and plants……have you been to Riverhead’s wonderful Peconic River Herb Farm lately?? (We were there together once and you enjoyed it.) It is a great place to find unusual items, get ideas (they inspired my bluestone “zen garden”) and it’s a perfect place to sit and listen to their resident bullfrogs sing. I think they are even having their annual sale now:
http://prherbfarm.com/
Love those boxes — gorgeous is right!
July 9, 2009 at 4:35 am
cara
Haven’t forgotten the Peconic River Herb Farm, a very special place indeed, but I’m a long way from getting there (or anywhere) to buy plants – such things as a refrigerator and a front door still take priority. Someday!