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Trailing Plants:
Medium-sized, main-feature plants can be grown with stronger-growing trailing plants to keep the display well in scale.
Trailing plants will help to soften harsh outlines, but remember to leave sufficiently exposed any container with a pleasing shape, especially if it has prominent decoration.
To COUNTERACT the long narrow shape of a window-box, you should make every attempt to avoid planting in straight rows. More informality can be given to the display by varying the heights of the main plants and by softening the effect with filler plants. One way to make an attractive planting is to group main-feature plants first and then put fillers in between.It is important to remember when selecting plants for window-boxes that they need to look attractive when seen from both indoors and out. To achieve this, a series of low, bushy plants that will make mounds of color along the top of the container is the first requirement. Intersperse these with plants that have sprawling or trailing flower stems which can be directed toward the front and sides of the box. This will help to soften its outline.
WHEN GROUPING plants in a hanging basket, it is useful to have one larger central plant surrounded by smaller-growing kinds, but planting several of a single kind can be equally effective. The side plants in a basket will usually be trailing types, with taller, bushier plants set in the top so that the finished planting creates a ball of color.
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