Styling Eye-Catching Window Boxes with GC Guy Jared Reichert

In order to arrange window boxes according to plant style and texture, it’s important to start with seedlings or potted plants, rather than seed. This way, it’s possible to style the plants in a pattern of your choice.

Be careful not to damage potted plants while transferring them into a planter.

For our collaboration with Reichert, Garden Collage chose red clover, sprawling wireline, and sedge grass to compliment Reichert’s muted grey planters.

Reichert filling in gaps with extra potting soil.

After arranging our window boxes, we gave the plants a generous water before placing them in the grates outside. This is an important step that should not be overlooked any time plants are transferred from their original containers into a new home.

Reichert and his window boxes.

Because Reichert’s exterior grates shelter the window boxes from the street, the arrangement sits on the sill and thereby functions as an element of interior design.

Sun shining on the finished product.

A close-up of red clover, which matches the building’s exterior.

An afternoon well-spent.

Reichert, in the outlook from his West Village apartment, above his newly-styled window boxes.