Plants for the Window box, planter or hanging basket - Pandanus, Thunbergia, Wishbone Plant

Pandanus

Here’s another plant which doubles for window box and indoor garden. The green foliage is bordered or striped with white or yellow. As a starter, buy un-rooted cuttings and root them in flats of light soil mixture at 65 degrees F. When they are rooted, in about 3 weeks, pot in 3-inch pots. Plants started in March are ready for later spring sales.

Thunbergia

Although generally reserved for greenhouse decoration, thunbergia makes a good trailer for the window box. Its flowers, produced freely throughout the summer, are white, cream, orange red, and in shades of blue-purple.

Thunbergia, called clock vine, is easily propagated through cuttings or seed sown in the spring in the warm house. Pot up into 2-inch pots as soon as the cuttings or seedlings can be easily handled.

Wishbone Plant (Torenia)

Small gloxinia-like flowers in white and yellow, plain yellow, or blue and white, and tiny green leaves, plus a trailing habit when grown in partial shade, make the wishbone plant unusual material for the window box, planter, or hanging basket.

In warmer areas of the country, this one is handled as many northern gardeners handle pansies.

Sow the seeds in March in loose soil and grow in the warm house. Do not let seedlings dry out-they may not revive. As soon as you can handle them, perhaps mid-April, plant them in 3-inch pots of porous soil.

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