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7. Planting ideas for summer windowboxes and troughs

Bushy flowering plants:

Fuchsia - sun or shade.

Busy lizzies - sun or shade.

French marigolds - sun.

Begonia - sun or partial shade.

Geranium (Pelargonium) - sun.


Trailing flowering plants:

Ivy-leaved geranium (Pelargonium) - sun.

Nasturtium (grow from seed) - sun.

Sweet pea - dwarf types (grow from seed) - sun.

Lobelia - tolerates shade.

Creeping Jenny - tolerates shade.


Trailing leafy plants:

Helichrysum - grey-green leaves. Sun.

Ground ivy - variegated leaves. Sun.


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