Winter is a time when many window box enthusiasts leave their window boxes empty and barren.
This is unfortunate, especially since there are many ideas you can use to decorate your window boxes in the winter.
Winter is a fun and exciting time to try some decorating ideas for the holidays that you just can't pull off in the Spring or Summer.
Here are some winter window box ideas for decorating and gardening.
You can either plant flowers, plants, and vines that thrive in the winter or you can choose to go with a decorating theme for the Holiday season.
Here's three of my favorite ideas: 1.
Winter Window Box Vines: My two personal favorite vines for cold winter are Virginia Creeper and Boston Ivy.
Both do very well in cold winter weather and both are climbing vines that are ideal for not only decorating your window boxes, but creating coverage that can spread across your entire house.
During the Fall season and leading into winter these vines can often turn a reddish orange color making them ideal for the Holiday season.
An alternative to climbing vines is hanging vines.
Potato vine is a great hanging vine that will create a flow out of the box and a different look than your climbers will and is another favorite that does well year round.
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Winter Window Box Flowers: Primroses and Pansies are a few choices for perennial flowers for winter window boxes.
Beautiful blue and white flowering Forget-Me-Not flowers can make a great holiday display in your window boxes or you can go with a Christmas theme of red pansies and green ivy.
Most winter flowers need to be planted in the Spring or Summer or they can be purchased in the winter from a local nursery and then placed in your window box.
Some winter ferns also work well to bring a holiday look to your windowboxes.
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Holiday Decorating Ideas for Window Boxes: Lots of people will opt for a no maintenance solution during the winter and will empty out their flowers, plants, and vines to put in place a decorative display instead.
This can involve using wreaths, holly, or evergreen branches placed within your window box to give it a decorative appearance.
The use of pine cones, Christmas ball ornaments, ribbons, fake white foam snow balls, and Christmas lights are also other ideas you can use to give your window box a holiday feel.
There is no limit to the imagination you can use for decorating window boxes in the winter.
Winter might be one of the best times of the year where you can truly let loose in terms of adding a little bit of personalization and creativity to your window planters.
Good luck and have fun!