Best window box ideas to consider for your home

A window box is the perfect mix of an outdoor garden and a cozy home. All you need to do is look at any of your windows and there you have it – a tiny green paradise laid out on your sills. And the best part is, there are so many ways to style and design a window box! 

Once you take into account factors like climate, plant type, and needs, the landscape and exterior, as well as your personal aesthetic preferences – it is time to refresh your home. To help you make the best choice, we have a few window box ideas for you to explore:

Fantastic window box designs to make your home look fresh

Flowers rich in colours

If you want a wild window box that stands out, then choose flowers rich in colours. Vibrant and colourful plants are screaming “look at me” and will definitely leave all the guests stunned by the vivid window installation. 

Some of the best window box flowers for a beautiful colourful display are:

  • Verbena
  • Fuchsia
  • Calibrachoa
  • Marigold
  • Periwinkle
  • Salvia 
  • Nasturtium
  • Coleus
  • Blue Lobelia

Adding some green plants to the colourful mix is also a great idea, to keep the balance and highlight the vibrant blooms.

Green

Green is a classic colouration for garden plants and looks amazing on a window box display. Sometimes you can have such a fantastic harmonious mixture with plants in wild shades of green that adding more colour does not seem necessary. 

Window boxes full of greens are a stunning outdoor feature that can freshen up any building and landscape. These types of window installations are bringing life to the exterior with a subtle sense of nature.

Here are our top plant picks for a green window box:

  • Creeping Jenny
  • Sweet potato vine
  • Variegated Ivy
  • Ferns
  • Succulents
  • Herbs (Mint, Thyme, Basil, etc)

DIY window box

Of course, we can never miss the classic DIY window box! A great way to save some money on window box containers. There are so many ways to execute the handy project.

A traditional window box can be assembled by putting together wooden boards and trip moulding. The process takes no longer than half an hour. To begin planting in the DIY box, add plastic window box liners inside and prep the soil for your favourite green plants and flowers.

Another idea for a home-crafted window box is to use a common board planter or container. Install two L brackets, place the planter on them and fix it to the wall for extra stability. Using a small palette as a DIY window box is also a common exterior feature. 

Reusing old furniture is also a creative and eco-friendly way to make window planters. Cabinet and dresser drawers are perfect for the purpose! Paint them a bright vibrant colour to add a wow effect to your garden and property. 

Box with multiple types of flowers

Texture, variation, playful vibe – all this can be achieved by planting different types of plants in one window box design. Create impressive layouts by combining climbing, upright and trailing greens. Experiment with colours and in-box placement. There are endless possibilities to make a mixed plant window box work for your exterior.

Pink tones

Pink is a perfect hue to make a window box look pretty and delicate. The best plants to pull off the pink tones aesthetic are hydrangeas, fuchsias, lantanas, geraniums, azaleas and peonies. However, stick to only one major choice of pink plants to grow. Different flowers with similar colours are rarely a good combination.

Small roses design

Roses are a super cute way of bringing life to your window sills. If you have the roses, you don’t need any additional plants in the window box for it to look perfect.

Small decorative roses are an ideal addition to a window box. It is easy to grow and take care of roses. They develop fast, spread fast, stand out with vibrant blooms and create colourful spillages.

Small minimalist window box

In case a big window box with a huge variety of plants does not sound like something you want outside of your house, then probably a minimalistic approach will better suit your exterior expectations.

Minimalism is all about simplicity and uniqueness, without any extra complications. So when we talk about a minimalist window box, we mean a neat flat board design in a neutral colour. As for the plants, better to choose a stunning flower to be a window box showstopper and surround it with small neutral plants like succulents, dusty miller or liquorice plant.

Different texture of the window box

Texture makes a huge difference! If you only plant flowers with a similar structure they will blend together and look plain. Try to encourage plant variety and bold forms instead. That way you get to enjoy a vivid mixture of trailing, upright and climbing greenery. 

Optimally, there are two or three types of plants in every window box, so it’s more visually appealing if all the greens have a different texture. So if you already chose the main plant, make sure the other plants you throw into the mix both contrast and complement the showstopper.

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    Hi, if you want to make such beautiful windows as on the card then you need to order flowers and you can choose on our site, as well as a flower shopping of any kind of flowers that are on this site, and still do not need to look for them, so that we have flower delivery.

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