FLOWERING AND FOLIAGE PLANTS FOR WINDOW BASKETS AND BOXES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 21, 20 November 1912, Page 39

FLOWERING AND FOLIAGE PLANTS FOR WINDOW BASKETS AND BOXES.

There are certain plants, by reason of their trailing or pendulous habits, which are eminen’tly suited for cultivation in baskets or boxes, and which serve a useful purpose for the decoraition of the green'house or for beautifying the house front. Indeed, many of these plants are never seen to better advantage than when til ley are permitted freedom in the matter of room and allowed to festoon over the front of a window box, or round a basket suspended from some greenhouse or conservatory roof. Annual's furnish us with several, and we could not select two more useful things than Petunias and Verbenas, 'the last-named now, by consent of custom, being treated as an annual. Let these plants be planted out in a box or basket, the centre shoot being pinched and lateral growth encouraged, and t'he result will soon be plenty of leafage round the base and a prodigality of blossoms. Thunbergiasare delightful annuals for flow (‘ring in the greenhouse, and they are never seen to greater perfection than when depending from a basket. 1 lelio't ropes, valued for their rich fragrance, make charming basket plants, as do Lantanas. One cannot omit either Fuchsias or Ivy leaved Pelargoniums. and. needless to say. whether required for box or basket. a start ought always to be made with young plants. Amongst tuberous-rooted plants we take Begonias as being good bloomers. and yield a wealth of glorious colours. ROSELEA.