flower boxes

Façade planting containers

Flower boxes are long, narrow containers for growing plants, typically mounted on windowsills or railings.

They bring gardening to spaces without ground access—apartment balconies, urban storefronts, window ledges: The flower boxes overflowed with red geraniums.

Also called window boxes when mounted beneath windows.

aesthetic

colorful

Full of varied hues

foliage · arrangement · curb appeal · charming · quaint · picturesque · European · cottage · streetscape · display

container

planter

Container for greenery

wooden · metal · railing · balcony · sill · trough · bracket · mounting · drainage · liner

gardening

planting

Placing seeds in earth

geraniums · marigolds · begonias · pansies · trailing · cascading · potting soil · mulch · fertilizer · deadheading

Categories
Opposites
container type/mounting style

flower boxeshanging baskets

Airborne plant containers

flower beds · vertical gardens · trellises · window boxes

ground vs. elevated planting

flower boxesdirect sowing

Planting seeds in place

garden beds · wild gardens

planting location

flower boxesflower beds

Cultivated planting areas

garden beds · wildflower meadows

Family

flower, flowers, flowered, flowering, flowery, boxes, boxed, boxing, boxer

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G