Window boxful have an ancient history in Europe . Over the C , they took on various forms in Italy , England , France , Ireland , Germany and Holland before traveling to America with early settlers . The conducting wire hay baskets of English cottage garden , the shaped iron window boxes of France and the colonial windowpane boxes of the United States are some trend that still survive .

Roman Origin

The earliest terra cotta windowpane boxes date back to Romanic times , harmonize to Blooming Baskets Ireland . In the first century B.C. , it was the practice for papistic family to train bungalow gardens for their food , medicine and religious uses . Over meter , windowpane boxwood plants and flowers became more decorative and less operative . rosebush go the way as the favorite decorative blossom , follow by lily , violets and Milquetoast .

Higher and Higher

The potential of window corner fired the imagination of flush Romans . They took the terra cotta window box seat concept to a dissimilar level , literally . They created balcony and rooftop gardens , which they filled with elaborated placement of flowers , vines , small tree diagram and even fish ponds . In Italy , the windowpane box remains a very democratic and attractive lineament , especially on balconies .

Early 20th Century View

The April 4 , 1908 , variation of New Zealand ’s " The Star " newspaper carry an article – Window and Verandah Gardening – which showcases an former twentieth one C sentiment of windowpane boxes . The article explains how to make windowpane box from any Sir Henry Wood and either paint or cover them with virginal cork . It recommends making troughs from tin or galvanized iron , with drainage holes pierced through , to fit the windowpane boxes . It also lists nasturtiums , pansies , geraniums and other suitable flowers for window box , as well as sweet - smelling sweet basil and gamboge thyme .

Creative Designs

Window box themes persist a favored design element in homes and commercial building . heyday cascade over the balconies of the elegantly renovated Bienville House Hotel in New Orleans ' Gallic Quarter . About 200 years ago , an old grain house stood where the boutique hotel stands today , near the Mississippi River . windowpane boxes and planters are central to the inner courtyard , with its rare Antoine Durenne \casting of the trope of Pan perched on a conch shell . Custom - made French cast iron windowpane boxes contain magniloquent bamboo stalks and Chinese jasmine vine . A declamatory brick plantation owner accommodates evergreen wisteria , clematis , ness honeysuckle and a Louisiana sweet orange citrus tree diagram .

Self-Watering Window Boxes

modernistic innovations include water reservoirs designed to transform PVC windowpane boxes into ego - watering unit . Place a water reservoir into the foundation of the window box and breed it with soil . The reservoir water travel through wick , replenish the water in the grime as necessary .

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