Winter Window Box

Bulk up your planters with this cold-hardy combo. Then, give the look a festive spin in minutes.


Hale and Hardy for the Window Box

Shrubs

  • boxwood
  • dwarf Alberta spruce
  • Leyland cypress
  • 'Chattanooga' Colorado
  • blue spruce 

Foliage

  • flowering cabbage
  • flowering kale
  • dusty miller
  • variegated ivy
  • parsley
  • monkey grass 


 Flowers

  • pansy
  • viola
  • paperwhite
  • cyclamen (tolerates cold but not a hard freeze) 

     

"Winter Window Box" is from the December 2005 issue of Southern Living.

Ellen Ruoff Riley

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