Caliente!

It makes sense.  In May when I selected my window box flowers, I was STARVED for color.  

It's fine, I enjoy how loud it is.  

In the right window, I have a clematis vine that has survived four years in that small container. 

Root pruning this plant each spring prevented the vine from becoming root bound and choking itself to death.  

If a root system is naturally larger than the container it lives in, root pruning is necessary.  

It's also important in this case because I like to plant annuals in the other half of the box.  

There seems to be a little bit of everything.  The orange flowers are calibrachoas, the yellow are lantanas, the fuchsia are petunias and the vertical light blues are salvia.  I have a couple angelonia mixed on the right... it really is packed in there.  

Things are tight but it's fine for these kinds of plantings.  I will be changing it in a few weeks to the autumn style. 

 

I'm thinking about mounting larger boxes.  It would be quite a handsome addition to the facade of my otherwise blah building front.  

Some beautiful french iron work perhaps?

We shall see.