These best flowers for window boxes will bring colorful plant life into your home, even if you don’t have a garden. Consider these blooms and greens to brighten the exterior of your home or apartment.

Window boxes are a wonderful way to add color and charm and curb appeal for your home. They’re great for expanding your planting area, too, whether you live in a house or apartment. You also can swap ...

Cold weather doesn’t have to mean empty, sad-looking window boxes. Even when flowers are done and the garden’s asleep, you ...

Window boxes are containers that are usually oblong in shape and attached below windows on the outside. They're often made of wood but can be made of many different materials. I have clients who use ...

Q: I have six large wooden window boxes on the first floor of our 2-story saltbox house. The window boxes face north and receive partial sunlight. What types of plants would you recommend using?

Colorful fall window boxes in front of the house make for a warm welcome, especially in autumn when the rest of the landscaping might look a little tired. If you've had summer annuals in your window ...

The gardening world has a tried-and-true formula for the perfect window box: a thriller, a filler and a spiller. You simply can’t go wrong with a tall red geranium amid a tranquil bed of white ...

Why are some window boxes so beautiful while others are so blah? It's all about design, according to Sonia Uyterhoeven, the gardener for public education at The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.

While there are few plantings that compare to the charm of window boxes overflowing with summer flowers, these days window boxes aren’t just for windows. Now window boxes beautify walls, fences, ...

If you enjoy gardening or gazing upon flowers and foliage, choose a window box to enliven your space. Window boxes are simple in design — they’re skinny rectangular pots — and this only adds to their ...