What is a Window Box?

A window box is a great way to bring color and life to your house. A type of container gardening, a window box is a rectangular, trough-shaped portable garden that can be fasted beneath a window filled with blossoming flowers. A window box might be made of wood, PVC material, or just about anything sturdy. Home and gardening departments have many styles to choose from. Some are lattice like, painted white in the style of a picket fence, while others are left natural. A PVC window box might be pallid, taupe, or the color of red clay to appear ceramic. The most wonderful thing about a window box is that flowers add such a welcoming accent to the outside of the house, and can also be seen from inside! Open your curtains each morning to the shining faces of bright golden marigolds, deep red pansies, peach sunsatia, or "buttercup" lemon drops. Or maybe an herb garden is more your style. Making spaghetti sauce? Just peek out the window to see if there's some fresh basil. You can also grow ...  more

An RM Window Box is a PC supplied by RM with a full set of pre-installed educational software for Primary schools. If your PC is not a Window Box, you can use WBOL by installing the appropriate Window Box applications.  more

In it's most elemental form, a window box is a plain wooden box used to place or grow plants in, much like a mini-garden, or it can be a box specifically designed to hold small potted plants such as flowers and ivies safely and conveniently for display at or through a window.  more