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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Looks like some purple angelonia in there too! Gorgeous!
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!
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!