Window Boxes Indoors & Out: 100 Projects & Planting Ideas for All Four Seasons

Container gardening is one of the hottest trends today. Why? Because the recent availability of plants with great genetics makes container gardening a sure thing for everyone. Then there's the market--it's full of containers that are low cost and low maintenance but have high visual appeal. And finally there are the container gardens themselves, which are easier to maintain than in-ground gardens, especially during drought years.

Window Boxes offers dozens of inventive, innovative ideas for window box gardens. Once thought possible during only the warm spring and summer months, the art of creating (and the pleasure of admiring) window boxes can now be enjoyed every month of the year. Moving season by season, Cramer and Johnson show you how to use interesting indoor and outdoor containers and bold plant mixes that will keep your home colorful and visually stimulating all year round. Every gardener will appreciate the authors' inspired ideas and hard-working advice, as well as the dazzling full-color photographs in these pages. Window Boxes is a one-of-a-kind handbook that combines container gardening with flower arranging so that you can create glorious mini-gardens for outside and inside your home.

James Cramer is internationally recognized for his art and garden designs. His work has been featured in lifestyle and gardening magazines, books, and newspapers, and his home and gardens in Maryland have been seen on network and cable television. He is a co-author of Seasons at Seven Gates Farm.Dean Johnson is internationally recognized for his art and garden designs. His work has been featured in lifestyle and gardening magazines, books, and newspapers, and his home and gardens in Maryland have been seen on network and cable television. He is a co-author of Seasons at Seven Gates Farm.