One of the things that always strikes my fancy in the summertime is driving past Duke’s barber shop on the West Side Rotary and look at the window boxes on the front of the building. Ever since I can remember, Duke’s has had the best garden window boxes I’ve ever seen. I don’t know who it is that is in charge of the window flower boxes, but that person is a true artist. They are always overflowing with cascading plants of some kind; ivies and petunias.
If it wasn’t for the beautiful flowering display, that building would go completely unnoticed by so many people! But those flowers add a really nice touch of class that makes the entire building look inviting. It certainly inspired me to look into getting some for our house! One extra good thing about them is that you can start the gardens indoors to get a head start and then move them outside in stages, to harden up when the weather starts to warm up.