A cottage feel
One of the things that I’ve noticed about houses that I fee drawn to is that so many of them have window flower boxes full of trailing petunias on the side of the house that faces the road. I think that having a window box full of flowers makes the house look very welcoming. I guess it all goes back to my childhood when I would go to visit my aunt and uncle in the country on their farm.
Aunt Janet had window boxes on every window – even the ones in the upstairs dormer windows! She grew these wonderful cascading petunias that trailed all the way down to the ground. She had them massed in different colors so it was very eye=catching. I didn’t much care for the scent of petunias, but I think that they are one of the prettiest flowers. I have been thinking about putting some on the windows in our house but my wife thinks it would be better to hang them on the porch railing because they would be easier to reach.