What is a Flower Box?

A flower box is a planter box which is used to grow flowers, usually for decorative purposes, although a flower box can also be stocked with edible flowers and herbs. Flower boxes are often used in environments where gardening space is limited, such as urban areas, and they can be constructed in a variety of ways. Many hardware and gardening stores carry flower boxes or blueprints for making them, and they can also be ordered directly from companies which manufacture them. Although the name suggests that a flower box is always built in a box shape, flower boxes can actually be constructed in a variety of shapes, including circles, hexagons, and octagons. In all cases, the box has holes to promote drainage, and a solid construction which ensures that the box will not fail when it is loaded with soil. Wood, brick, metal, and plastic can all be used in flower box construction, with wood being a classical material of choice. In some cases, flower boxes are installed under windows, in ...  more

A Flower Box, as it relates to the OS/390 (MVS) operating system, is the combined job and step end informational records which are written to the SYSMSG JES dataset by the SMF exit IEFACTRT. They are sometimes surrounded by a box of astericks or dashes. Somebody along the line gave them the cute nick name Flower Box.  more