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About Window Ledge Gardening
The growing of flowering or foliage plants on window ledges is a form of
gardening in which most people can indulge. Those who live in flats, and
others who have no gardens, and especially invalids who are confined to
their rooms, derive an enormous
amount of pleasure from this form of gardening.
Window ledge gardening plants would be more popular if it were not for the fact
that a considerable amount of work is involved in filling and emptying
the boxes.
In addition there is the watering problem, drainage water
dripping on to the heads of people in the streets is liable to cause
some annoyance.
By taking proper precautions in constructing the
containers and setting them in position, most of these difficulties can
be overcome.
Suitable Window Ledge Gardening Plants for a Spring Display
Some of the most popular plants for spring are as follows: Arabis albida
(double variety)
The procumbent stems of this gardening plant are clothed with grey hairy leaves
and bear spikes of double, white flowers.
Aubrietia
It is more compact in growth than Arabis and forms a close carpet of
blue, pink or purple flowers.
Bellis perennis flore pleno (Dwarf Double Daisies)
These dainty, free-flowering plants are ideal for window-boxes. There
are red, pink and white varieties.
Myosotis (Forget-me-not)
This popular spring-flowering plant is obtainable in several shades of
blue and forms an ideal carpeting plant for many typesof bulbs.
Primula (Polyanthus)
The Polyanthus does not do well in a hot position and should therefore
be used for window boxes which are set in a shady spot. These plants
make a bright display, and many variously coloured forms are obtainable.
Suitable Window Ledge Gardening Plants for a Summer Display
Here again much information can be gained by visiting the public parks
in summer, and making notes of the plants used for filling the flower
beds... from florists shops many of the plants given in the following
list will be readily obtainable. For example :
Ageratum houstonianum (mexicanum)
This is easily recognised by its compact, upright stems which bear small
tufts of blue, fluffy flowers.
There are numerous varieties in different
shades of blue. The plants are compactand the bedding varieties range in
height from 4-9 inches.
Lobularia maritima (Alyssutn maritimum)
Commonly called the white or sweet alyssum, this plant is used
extensively for edging and carpeting flower beds. The variety Little
Dorrit is the most popular.
It grows 2-4 inches in height and forms a
compact mass of white, sweetly-scented flowers.
Lilac Queen and Violet Queen are two excellent varieties of recent
introduction.
For edging, the variety Magic Carpet, which has a creeping habit, and
forms a profusion of small blooms in many shades of colours, is most
attractive.
Begonia semperflorens
For freedom of flowering and for providing a continuous display in
summer the varieties of this species of Begonia are unexcelled. The
plants grow about 6 inches tall and produce
masses of flowers of various shades of red or pink.
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