PRACTICAL WINDOW-BOXES
LONDON BLOSSOMS FORTH If you own a window-box you are certainly in the 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 —bluo is such a cool, refreshing colour for hot days, she thinks. Lady Lawson painted her window-boxes tho same stone shade as the walls of the house, and they hold ferns and other green, leafy things. Mr. Beverley Nichols left his boxes their plain natural wood, and, needless to say, the stocks and wallflowers blooming so gaily there wero brought up from that famous thatched cottage in the Huntington countryside! Instead of filling the boxes with soil and planting the flowers, most peoplo now have the woodwork deep enough to come to the rims of the flower-pots they put inside. This solves the watering problem and the contents can be changed quickly and easily to look attractive all tho year round.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)
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164PRACTICAL WINDOW-BOXES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)
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