Do You Need Sunshine for a Gorgeous Window box? Not On Your Life!

Shamrocks and Bellflowers

Melissa Gouty
Garden Glory
Published in
3 min readJun 24, 2022

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window box filled with purple shamrocks and bellflowers.
Window box for a shady spot. Shamrocks and Bellflowers. Photo: Melissa Gouty

For the past few years, I’ve tried flowers requiring part sun, part shade in the window box outside my office. But it’s on the back side of our house under a tree that gets bigger every year, casting more shade every day. My window box always ended up leggy and scraggly as the flowers looked for those short…

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Melissa Gouty
Garden Glory

Writer, teacher, speaker, and observer of human nature. Content for HVAC & Plumbing Businesses. Author of The Magic of Ordinary. LiteratureLust and GardenGlory.