Window boxes are often overlooked as balcony garden containers because, as their name implies, they're designed to sit outside a window. Don't be so easily fooled. The much larger size of these ...

For summer planting schemes consider scented plants to send perfume into open windows. Or why not explore vegetables and herbs for a kitchen window box? In design terms consider what effect you ...

Very few windowboxes are big enough to suit a courgette plant - they need a lot of room. If space is very tight, grow some basil indoors on a sunny sill, and a pot or two of salad leaves outside.