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I was walking in Monschau when I spotted this wonderful stone house on a side-street. I was about to make a picture when this elderly lady came by and walked up to look at the flowers in the flower box.
This is one of the flowers that is in a flower box on our front walkway. This daisy was all in shadow so I set the flash on a tripod about three feet away two feet above the flower and 45 degree angle.
While taking a break from applying the wallpaper and trim in the sitting room, I decided to add hand drawn details to a photo I took of the roof terrace. I was curious to see how my ideas might look when the setting was completed.
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The first installation of this unique vertical garden was completed in September 2007. The garden consists of over 500 plants and 80 different species.
My company, Verdant Gardens Design website:
Flowerbox website: www.flowerboxbuilding.com
Architect's website: www.dereksanders.net
In this photo, the city view has been raised just over two inches so that it doesn't get lost beind the newly added brick wall. Also new to this setting are an awning, decorative panels and hardware for the door as well as several other details.
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In St Paul's Square in Birmingham.
Think this is part of the 2013 Birmingham City Centre Floral Trail.
On Sunday 28th July 2013, judges from Entente Florale went around Birmingham. Birmingham was chosen to represent the UK by the Royal Horticultural Society, due to it's recent gold wins at various RHS flower shows in recent years.
Having a break on a bench in the square. St Paul's Square is so quiet. Relaxing compared to St Philip's.
This is the other planter on the Little Golden Book bench. It features the Shy Little Kitten and the Saggy, Baggy Elephant.
The 2019 public art project entries were unveiled last Saturday. They are benches with attached flower boxes built by the Veterans Outreach group and decorated by local artists. The theme is "Racine's Past, Present and Future".
Scène d'arrière-cour fleurie dans une lanterne de jardin en verre et bois à laquelle j'ai ajouté un toit vitré à charnière (contre la poussière) et que l'on retrouve en miniature dans la scène. Réalisée en carton-plume de 10 mm, murs recouverts de véritable crépi. Porte et fenêtre fonctionnelles en balsa, avec huisserie en métal. Plantes et fleurs (sauf dans la balconnière/jardinière) faites à partir de kits de Pascale Garnier. Pots de fleurs, briques pleines et briques plates en pâte séchant à l'air. Fraisiers en pâte polymère (tutoriel d'Angie Scarr www.CraftArtEdu.com). Jardinière, appui de fenêtre et seuil de porte en pâte polymère. Boîtes de conserves du garde-manger (cave) de Miniaturas magazine n° 163.
A flower box (sometimes called a window box, window flower box, or window box planter) is a planter box that is usually placed outdoors and used for displaying live plants and flowers, but it may also be used for growing herbs or other edible plants.
It is usually placed or affixed to an accessible location so the resident of a home may easily work with the plants in the container. A flower box may be installed under a window and supported in place by brackets on the wall below, in which case it may be called a window box. Some materials such as PVC or fiberglass use a cleat mounting system from behind to attach to the house or can be directly bolted to the home without the use of support brackets below. Flower boxes may also be used to line decks, patios, porches, steps, and sidewalks and they can even be hung from railings.
Wood, brick, metal, fibreglass, vinyl, and cellular PVC can all be used in flower box construction, with wood being a classical material of choice. A typical wooden window box will last 3–5 years before showing signs of rot. With painting and maintenance they can sometimes last 10–15 years. Fiberglass is known to be lightweight and insect proof. Vinyl and cellular PVC are plastics which are completely rot proof alternatives to wood which are often used on homes to prevent rot or siding damage.
A window box
Geraniums in double window boxes
Window boxes are often used by apartment-dwellers on higher floors, who do not otherwise have access to a garden or place to grow flowers, and allow the plants to be readily seen by those inside the property as well as outside. Window boxes that are only 6"-8" (15–20 cm) deep will support many flowers but not tall plants. Larger boxes 10-12" in height can be used to plant items that need more root space and to allow you to layer flowers and plants in multiple rows to create more intricate flower displays. Access for planting and maintenance can be via the window from indoors.
Sometimes a box is placed inside a kitchen window in order to grow herbs or other supplies for a chef as an easily accessed miniature kitchen garden.
J. Linderski has argued that Pliny described flower boxes in his Naturalis Historia, at 19.59. However, Linderski could only find one other allusion to this practice in Martial 11.18
Thanks, Wikipedia
These stylish Metroland maisonettes, (two houses joined by a shared central wall), can be found in a quite street in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore.
These cottage style maisonettes with their low slung tile roof, white coloured stucco work with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns and an arch of feature bricks dividing the facade in two follow the less cluttered lines of Metroland Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war. To give them their own individual style, one has a bay window, whilst the other features a planter box beneath its drawing room window.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens. These two small, co-joined residences were built near the lowest section of Travancore, which was the last portion of the suburb to be subdivided on what was formerly the mansion's old dairy. Their position and size would suggest they would have been acquired by an aspiring middle-class families or young newlywed couples who wanted modernity to ease their lives, as they would not have been in the position to acquire the assistance of outside help like some of their neighbours could.
April 28, 2022 - After our visit to the Anne Frank House we walked on the other side of the Prinsengracht Canal for the majority of the walk back to Amadeus Princess. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
I made a really nice flowerbox by wrapping Lego around the flowers with a rubber band but it was a stick in the mud and snapped.
provincetown, massachusetts
1974
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