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Spring Has Sprung: Windowboxes and Container Gardens (7 comments)
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St. Augustine, Florida. The view from my room. Marble top tables, red and white cafe chairs, and geraniums. Does it get any cuter than this?
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Stockbridge Bowl, The Berkshires, Massachusetts. This is actually my aunt's house. She had the builder actually build windowboxes into the deck railings, which is genius. She always comes up with very interesting plant compositions in them.
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Port Clyde, Maine. I love this simple house turned gallery. That top windowbox just makes the place!
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Charlottesville, Virginia. This is my friend Suzannah's (http://osuzannahnews.blogspot.com/) adorable potting shed out in the country. She's also got an airstream trailer and a studio on the same property as her log cabin.
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Birmingham Alabama. I'm not sure what makes this place - the awning, the old sign, the homemade sign, or the windowboxes. It all just works!
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Birmingham Alabama. Clearly I'm realizing I'm obsessed with funky storefronts. Purple trim + Excellent Container Garden = Becky whips out camera phone!
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Paris (Monmarte? I can't QUITE remember!) France. Thi is just one of the most charming exteriors I've ever seen, and the hanging plants certainly help make it so!
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Monmarte, Paris, France. How do Europeans manage to make geraniums looks so much more elegant than we Americans do?
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This is my favorite restaurant in Atlanta, Parish. The green and white spilling out from their windowboxes make the converted mill even more inviting from the outside.
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Prague, Czech Republic. For this apartment dweller, this is his only garden at home. Remember you can plant useful herbs on a window ledge; when I lived in Venice we harvested our basil from a windowbox!
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Savannah GA: This is just so charming, from the bright flowers, to the curtain to the pink trim!
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Prague, Czech Republic. This windowbox has such interesting colors and textures that it is unexpected.
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Atlanta (Chamblee) Georgia. Every time I drive by this landscape designer's office (a former service station), I drool with envy!
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Rockport, Maine. You may know this place as the farm with the Belted Galloway cows. I just love the building and am trying to sneak it in under a windowbox theme! They have an art sale there once a year, and the beadboard-filled interior is just as charming as the exterior.
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Branford, Connecticut. Do I even need words here? The colorful windowboxes absolutely make this exterior; it's curb appeal to the tenth degree!
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Branford, Connecticut. Whoever tends to these boxes does so with a lot of love. They absolutely make the place. Oh, and the shutters with the cut outs dont hurt it any either!
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Branford Connecticut. This is my cousin's next-door-neighbor's house. I love that in addition to purple and green trim and the boxes, she hangs her paintings on the OUTSIDE of the house. She switches them out all the time. Did I mention that Branford is a really funky ocean town outside of New Haven? It's a blast to explore!
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L.A. California. This is The Standard Hotel on Sunset Strip. I like the groovy composition of these weird plants.
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Venice Beach, California. This little garden on a busy street totally charmed me. Most of the flowers are in pots. It's just part of the Venice Beach funk; the chain link doesn't even bother me. Perhaps that's because of Frank Gehry's crazy house nearby!
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Venice Beach, California. What could be a depressing concrete entryway is full of charm thanks to potted plants galore.
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Savannah, Georgia. I just like the food here so much I had to include their fun sidewalk flower box. Back in the Day Bakery - YUM!
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Decatur, Georgia. This is next to the funky Victory Vintage wall, painted by Ward-o-Matic, I'll find my image in a bit. Anyway, this could be such a boring, depressing, prison-like back window, but instead, it's yellow and totally happy! Love it!
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Atlanta, Georgia. These containers are cheap y'all! Go to the paint section of a Home Depot. They come in lots of sizes.
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Atlanta, Georgia. Simplicity on a rooftop deck. Keep in mind that there are always weight constraints when you are roof gardening!
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Spruce Head Island, Maine. So these are the plants I bought for my windowbox project, but I can't seem to find the "after" shot. Mom, if you are reading, do you have one?
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comments
mariette65 says:
After a very long wintry New England winter, these window boxes were a wonderful reminder that spring will be arriving soon!
becky says:
Mariette, I know; my parents live in Hingham MA! We had snow here in Atlanta two days ago, which is totally bizarre, as the dogwoods are in full bloom. By the way, my middle name is Mariette; I've never met anyone else with that name!
Becky
Becky
kitpollard says:
All of these pictures of Paris so have me itching to get on a plane! It seems like, especially in Monmartre, everywhere you turn there's a beautiful stone building with a pretty fence and tons of flowers. I swear, even the street signs in Paris are prettier...
becky says:
Kit, I know, I wish I were sitting outside Cafe Marie right now, sipping coffee and watching the world go by! Hey, after August, flights get REALLY cheap to get over there, though lodging is rather pricey! The NYTimes did one of those 36 Hours in Paris type articles in the past year that listed a few good Paris inns that were reasonable.
jith says:
A window box of wallflowers is a garden for a king
ajwitt says:
Becky, what GREAT pictures! You have me all excited to try window boxes this year!
Alison
Alison
becky says:
Al, they would look great on your house. Especially if they are purple!
Becky
Becky
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