London Blossoms Forth With Window Boxes

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 235, 5 October 1936, Page 11

London Blossoms Forth With Window Boxes

If you own a window box you are certainly in tho fashion this summer, writes an overseas correspondent. The Duchess of York has now adopted this decorative idea at 145, Piccadilly, and has black boxes filled with blue azaleas_blue is such a cool, refreshing colour for hot days, sho thinks. Lady Lawson painted her window boxes the same stone shade as/ tho walls of the house, and they hold ferns and othei green, leafy things. Mr. Beverley Nichols left his boxes in their plain natural wood, and, needless to say, tho stocks and wallflowers blooming so gaily there were brought up from that famous thatched cottage in the Huntiugton countryside! Instead of filling the boxes with soil and planting the flowers, most people now have the woodwork deep enough to come to tho rims of the flower pots they put inside. This solves the watering problem and the contents cau bo changed quickly and easily to look attractive all tho year round.