Thank you so much for the idea - I will try to get to our Wallmart and see what is still left this year or for next year.
You have a beautiful home and flower garden!

Nice! I love the pails... need to check walmart, too.

ItaliaCook, I had the same problem. We put on new siding and my husband will absolutely throttle me if I put so much as a single nail hole in it.

I found a pouch-type thing - and I just spent a half hour looking for the package. Ack! I can't find it and I can't for the life of me remember the name of the pouch. I'll keep looking, but in the meantime, I'll try to describe it.

It's kind of like those hanging pouches you see, but this one is a rectangle. It has pockets on it placed so you can hang it vertically like a pouch, or horizontally like a window box or around something like a tree or barrel. I obviously used it as a window box. (If used vertically it has four pockets; five horizontally.)

Each pocket is not very big, but the plants I planted seem to be surviving okay - as long as I remember to water it.

The way I used it was to put two eyehooks on the inside of my windowsill (inside the house) hanging under the sill. Doesn't look so great, and I tried to persuade DH that this looked worse than a hole in the siding, but I didn't win. Anyway, I then ran the two ties in through the window and secured them on the eyehooks. The ties are green and rather thick and a bit unsightly. I had planned on supplementing this with fishing wire, thinking I had seen grommet openings on the pouch. It turns out there was only one grommet on each side of the pouch, and not strategically placed, so I ditched the fishing line idea, and it seems to be holding up okay.

Of course, I'm terrified of opening the window too much or too many times, but luckily it's in a window that we don't open too much anyway. But then I have replacement windows, which have that lip on them, so it makes it a bit more tricky than if you have regular windows with flat openings.

The pouch itself really isn't big enough to fill the window side to side, and at first looked a bit pathetic, IMO, but as the plants filled in it wasn't so bad - or maybe I just got used to it, lol. It also sagged more than I liked, so it was kind of like a U-shape instead of straight across the window. I need to either move the eyehooks farther apart, or tie the strings shorter. I did use several trailing plants, which helps hide it so it doesn't look as bad as if it was visible.

Overall, I kind of liked it more than having nothing, but I'm not quite sure if I will use it again next year. I actually got two for the windows on either side of my back door, but never got around to putting up the second one up because of moving furniture, drilling holes, etc.

I'll try to find the package. I know the company had a website, and I tried to find that too, but no luck. If you want to try, I do know it was Flowa-something.

By the way, I also posted here on the forums, and two of the ideas I received that I thought might be worth mentioning are those deck-edge hangers (which didn't work for me again because of that lip on the replacement windows) and hanging the boxes from the eaves. I thought that idea was interesting. People suggested hanging the window boxes from under the eaves, placed so the boxes were just under the window and would look like regular window boxes. Of course, this would most likely work only on either one-storey houses or on second-storey windows. It didn't work for me at all because I don't have any eaves! My roof ends right at the wall of the house, at least on the side. Another idea was to hang the boxes from the drainpipe/gutter, but I didn't want to try that.

I'll keep looking for the name of those pouches. In the meantime, good luck!

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Dee

Dee,
Thank you for your desciption and possible solution. I'd have to see if the product would work with my casement windows because I need to be able to lock the windows as well. Sounds like you made it work for you -- that's great. Thanks again.

italiacook, my window which has this pouch hanging in it is closed and locked. Of course, I don't *open* it too much, for fear that the constant opening and closing will fray the ties and make the pouch fall. But I do open and close the window occasionally. I just do it much more carefully and slowly than I do with the other windows. Like I said, my replacement windows have this vertical lip along the bottom of the window which the ties have to hang over, and when the window is closed, it pushes the ties down a good inch, and the tie ends up being vertical for the length of an inch or so between the window and the lip. I'm sure I'm not explaining that properly. Sorry. I'm still looking for the package to this thing. It was only about $8 -$10 I think, so it may be worth your while to at least try it. Hopefully I can find it for you.

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Dee

Hi all! I don't know if you are still looking for options, but I found this solution when I was looking for a way to hang some planters on our rented apartment. Hope you found something that worked for you in the last 15 years, haha!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QMPkdu4d8TjeAh3qEiYZQPlA-BrU82id6bpDuYo8Afg/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks for sharing!