Flower-filled window boxes, tubs and planters are today an attractive feature of more and more places of business, both small and large. Shopping centers, department stores, dress shops, banks, insurance companies, hospitals, art and specialty shops, grocery stores, filling stations, even factories are now decorated with container plants. Restau rants, particularly at resorts, hotels, motels, and tourist homes also employ this method of attracting business.

Europe Takes Lead

In this aspect of container gardening, Europe has taken the lead. Bank buildings of London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Paris feature window boxes of azaleas in spring, ge raniums in summer, and chrysanthemums in fall. Pink and blue hydrangeas, favorite flowers in Paris, bedeck the facade of the showroom of the Renault automobile on the Champs Elysees, as well as the fashionable restaurants and department stores that line the broad boulevards.

In London, Austin Reed’s Department Store favors apple-green window boxes with multicolored azaleas, and the Bank of Nova Scotia at Waterloo Place features deep rose hydrangeas. Other English cities follow the pattern-in Bath, for instance, where Colmer’s Department Store has set up boxes of red zonal and pink ivy geraniums at the edge of the marquee. In Switzerland, hardly a dress 01 watch shop is overlooked and there, I remember the Lu-zerner Kantanalbank in the town of Horw, where red geraniums crept through the iron bars in front of the windows just as they do from balconies all over Spain. Gardening Supply - Read More.