Window Boxes - Fake Landscapes

window boxes

outdoor: UV and weather resistant

We make a lot of window boxes, probably because they do a handy job of blocking the view of the boring bit of the street! Also, keeping live plants going in such a tiny amount of soil is fairly hard work, and going away for any period of time is normally fatal...

Our plants are all UV and water resistant, of course, and will last for years. It’s also not a problem to re-use your existing boxes by making up the planting as a complete drop-in insert. We do have a useful range of simple UV and frost-proof planters should you need them, plus a choice of brackets. Most of the ones here are from us fyi.

In terms of look, it’s up to you – certain styles do suit certain buildings better – so you could go for a tidy hedge, neat balls – or a wild natural look… Or vary things with heather, rosemary, lavender and/or a mix of ivies. The only limit is your individual taste. And, of course, the number of windows you have!

There are normally quite a few of the ones you see here dotted around the showroom. Ideally take some pictures and measure your windows, then book in to see what appeals in the flesh.

window boxes

outdoor:

UV and weather resistant

480 fake landscapes mixed modern window box 90cm 480

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We used to call this a ‘hipster’ window box, but, like the Triffids, it broke out of Islington and took over the world. So now it’s ‘mixed modern’… It works equally well with all sorts of buildings and looks nice and random, like it’s actually growing. We can also play with the mix of plants, and it scales up nicely for larger window boxes. 480

481 fake landscapes 90cm window box with three natural look UV buxus balls

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We must have sold thousands of these ‘3 ball boxes’ over the years – it’s a (very) hardy perennial, and still looks good. We’re now on about the seventh generation of leaf, the best yet - and we make them ourselves to any diameter you want, so you don’t end up with muffin-top planting! 481

482 fake landscapes custom 110cm ivy, boxwood and erica window box 1080DEF

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If we gave these naff names, this would be ‘The Mayfair’, but we leave that to sofa makers… A nice subtle mix of greens and whites, and the trailing bits cover a multitude of sins on the window ledge. Easy to scale up for long runs. 482

483 fake landscapes classic rectangular buxus hedge in 90cm planter

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This is the cubist version of the ‘3 ball’ window box, and we sell equal quantities of both so we’ve made them the same price! It’s a soft hedge shape and is made in the same way the real ones grow - with little wobbly bits, rather than a rigid rectangle. 483

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Here’s a set of three 65cm window boxes with what we call a ‘hipster mix’ of plants – silver, green and a splash of colour. Even though the plants are nicely jumbled, having three boxes rather than one long one keeps it tidy. It’s also in bright sunlight, where lesser fake plants fall down - but we’d challenge anyone to notice ours weren’t real. 484

485 Fake Landscapes Connaught soft buxus hedge window boxes

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This is part of a long run of 90cm planters on a parapet, about 12m in all. They’re fixed down securely from inside the container, and the hedge is meant to look like individual balls that have grown together. So it’s continuous, but has contours like a caterpillar – if that makes sense! 485

486 fake landscapes teardrop and ball buxus and ivy window box

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If the other window box with ivy was the Mayfair, this is the Kensington! A little more privacy and shape here, and again scalable to much bigger planters. Definitely not symbolic of anything, either… 486

487 fake landscapes mixed modern deep window box

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This is another variation of the ‘hipster’ with mixed planting in silver and grey, but we’ve left open areas of slate so it looks better when looked down on from above. Handy for basements (sorry ‘lower ground floors’) for example. 487

488 fake landscapes soft bay hedges in clients window boxes

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Once window boxes planters get larger, you have the option to use laurel balls as well. They have a larger leaf than buxus, and are a really nice dark green. Again, as we make these ourselves from scratch, you can have the exact size that fits. They tend to look best when they run into each other a bit, as here. 488

489 fake landscapes funky purple heather window boxes

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Again, there’s no harm in having a splash of colour in a basement, and our heather lets you use very narrow custom window boxes and still get a decent density. There are lots of colours - someone once did orange and purple alternating, but to our shame we never got a picture of it! 489

490 fake landscapes 28cm UV buxus with white heather in 90cm planter

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This is a sort of hybrid of classical and modern, and looks fab here where it’s on a raised ground floor, so the heather frames the boxwood as you look up. The grey planters aren’t from us, but wouldn’t be hard to find – and they go really well with it all. 490

491 fake landscapes rosemary and lavender extended window box

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These lavender/rosemary boxes work well with funkier flats and a mews or cottage type house. It’s a very subtle splash of colour. Yes, we know lavender only flowers in June, but there are lots of purple-y things that bloom all year round, so they look pretty plausible! 491