Beautiful Budget-Friendly Early Spring Window Box

The urge to get your garden beds ready for Spring is so real! Let's start by getting our window boxes ready. Here is a budget friendly way to fill your window boxes with plants that will tolerate this cold weather that is hanging on!

I am so ready for Spring. I'm ready for warm weather and with warm weather means planting season! I have big plans for my garden this year and I'm determined to live out those big plans. This past week we had beautiful weather, so I was out building another box garden. See, I really am ready for Spring! We are almost there. It's so close. Spring is in the air, it's on the horizon. How do I know? Well, I hear more and more birds each morning, daffodils are making their debut, and the days are getting longer! Ah what a beautiful time. Even thinking about it all makes me excited!

Although, there is one slight problem... I still have my Winter plantings in our window box. I've been staring at that window box as little as possible. I just had no idea what to do with it. We are still having cold dreary days here and there. Can I even plant things now? Well, that all changed the other day. I was out visiting my great grandmother at her retirement community and outside the door they had a beautiful planter. It was full of color and variety...it looked like Spring! Then I immediately was flooded with ideas for our window box.

Best Early Spring Plantings

While today I am going to show you how I filled our window box, I also wanted to give you some other early Spring planting ideas so you can add a personal touch to your window boxes!

Pansy
Yellow Trillium
Crocus
Daffodil
Tulip
Snowdrop

And the list goes on. When the word research is used it probably doesn't excite you. Although, researching what plantings are best for your area will help you be a little more confident going into your Spring planting!

Best Winter Cuttings to Add to Your Window Box

There are so many winter shrubs that are blooming right now and also ones that would just add great texture and variety to a window box or planter! Here are my top 3.

Pussy Willow
Forsythia
Curly Willow

These shrubs will thrive for a while if you simply cut them and stick them in the dirt of your pot or window box. Pussy Willow and Forsythia are budding and blooming right now, so they look beautiful and are great for height along with fun texture! Curly Willow isn't blooming, although, the curly stick like shrub works as a wonderful filler! Something great about curly willow is that you can simply stick it in the dirt, and it will root and take off.

How I Filled Our Window Box

The first step when filling a window box is to select a color scheme and then the flowers you want to add in. I wanted to do a purple and yellow color scheme because those colors just scream Spring for me! They are so vibrant and happy. Then, off to the greenhouse I went. Things were way pricier there than I anticipated them to be. So, I just bought 3 6-packs of pansies and two packs of lemon thyme, and it came out to around 29 dollars. I knew I had other things at our home that I would be able to use in the window box so I was okay with that.

Let's assemble the window box!

Something that helps me when figuring out where to place the flowers is to take them out of their package and simply place them on the dirt. Doing that with all of the flowers and then taking a step back to see how it looks means you can easily rearrange if you see something you don't like.

I did groups of 3 pansies on each end, along with ivy, daffodils in the middle to have a tall focal point and then the lemon thyme in front to have some trailing and a height difference. The daffodils I just dug up from a group of ones we already had. They transplant very easily. I only bought two things of lemon thyme but to make it stretch I divided the containers up so it looked like I had more. You can do a lot with little!

I felt like there were still too many gaps in the box so I dug up some beautiful purple crocus that we had in our landscape and put it on both sides. Isn't using what you already have great?

I love how the window box looked after all the plants were in. A few days later I added some pussy willow and curly willow behind the daffodils. Sometimes it takes a few days to notice what it needs. It is simple yet so Springy and full of life!

If you did a Spring window box let us know how it turned out!