How Do You Make Winter Holiday Window Boxes?
Do you have window boxes on your home that you keep planted with all kinds of summer flowers? They look beautiful when planted with all the different kinds of annuals and they give your home a perfectly charming look. But what do you do when the weather turns to winter and those summer annuals die back and look brown and ugly? Here’s a way to keep those boxes looking wonderful all winter and will even help with the holiday decorating. If the flowers in your window boxes have died back due to the cold weather where you live, you’ll want to remove those dead and brown flower stalks. After all, a window box does usually hang from the bottom of your windows and who wants to look out and see a messy tangle of dead flowers all winter? Begin the transformation of your boxes by cleaning up all the dead foliage, pull up the whole root ball removing all of the plant that you can. With a hand fork ( a hand tool that looks like 3 or 4 curled fingers) loosen the soil in the box and smooth the surfa
