Want to enhance the curb appeal of your home without doing much? Just grow these Cascading Flowers for Window Boxes!
Cascading flowers for window boxes are often known as spillers, because they spill out of the boxes, offering a striking appearance to your windows. We have prepared a list of Cascading Flowers for Window Boxes based on the full sun or shade they love to thrive in!
1. Nemesia
Botanical Name: Nemesia strumosa
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Nemesia flowers are two-lipped; the upper carries four lobes, and the lower carries two. They are available in a rainbow of colors, offering your windowbox vibrant and lustrous outlook!
2. Impatiens
Botanical Name: Impatiens walleriana
Sun Exposure: Shade
Impatiens are truly amazing, they grow in colors like white, red, pink, violet, and purple and love the shady location. They blossom from spring to summer, however, in warm climates, they appear year-round.
3. Pansy
Botanical Name: Viola tricolor var. hortensis
Sun Exposure: Full sun to part sun
Five-petaled weird-looking pansy flowers with heart-shaped leaves are going to fill your window boxes with many colors while spreading mild sweet fragrance in the air in fall, winter, and spring.
4. Begonia
Botanical Name: Begonia
Sun Exposure: Partial sun to shade
Dangling flowers of Begonia with variegated leaves are prized for their miniature rose-like appearance, carrying pink, yellow, orange, red, or white hues, it blossoms from summer to fall.
5. Lantana
Botanical Name: Lantana camara
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Lantana must have stolen your sight with its lovely appearance in many tropical gardens. The vibrant and mildly fragrant flowers are best to brighten up your window boxes all around the year, especially if you live in a hot climate.
6. Million bells
Botanical Name: Calibrachoa
Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Part sun
This classic spiller plant flowers in different shades of violet, blue, pink, red, magenta, yellow, bronze, and white from summer, fall, and surprisingly in winter too.
7. Moss-Rose
Botanical Name: Portulaca grandiflora
Sun Exposure: Full sun to part sun
The beautiful flowers have needles like succulent leaves come in pink or peach hues that look like tiny roses in vibrant shades. They blossom from summer to fall.
8. Geranium
Botanical Name: Pelargonium
Sun Exposure: Full sun
When overgrown pelargoniums do cascade down and there was no reason we could be missing these sun-loving flowers.
9. Forget Me Not
Botanical Name: Myosotis
Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade
Cute looking, blue flowers with yellow ‘eyes’ of forget me not disperse pleasing fragrance, transforming your little window box into miniature heaven.
10. Fuchsia
Botanical Name: Fuchsia magellanica
Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade
Neon tricolored, bell-like flowers, of red-purple hues, are famous for attracting a hummingbird. Fuchsia flowers look exceptional in hanging baskets and window boxes.
11. Mandevilla
Botanical Name: Mandevilla sanderi
Sun Exposure: Full sun
This ‘thriller and spiller’ climber produces five-lobed blossoms of red or pink color, carrying a rich ‘golden throat’ inside.
12. Lenten Rose
Botanical Name: Helleborus orientalis
Sun Exposure: Partial shade
The Lenten roses is not a rose, but a hellebore hybrid. It flowers in red, pink, and yellow colors from winter to early spring and is rich in nectar.
13. Aptenia
Botanical Name: Aptenia cordifolia
Sun Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
Also known as Heart-leaved Aptenia, these magenta-red flowers bloom over heart-shaped green leaves in the mid-day sun throughout summer and spring.
14. Purslane
Botanical Name: Portulaca oleracea
Sun Exposure: Full sun, part sun, shade
Purslane leaves make look like a relative of the jade plant. Its leaves and flowers are edible & nutritious, too, and can be used in salads as well!
15. Sweet Alyssum
Botanical Name: Lobularia maritima
Sun Exposure: Full sun to part sun
Tiny flowers of Alyssums come in abundance in shades of pink, white, or violet hue, spreading honey-like fragrance in the air. It blossoms from spring to fall in cold climate and winter and spring in a hot climate.
16. Trailing Snapdragon
Botanical Name: Asarina
Sun Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
Its flowers are tubular and dragon-shaped of purple, red, and yellow hues. They grow through spring, fall, and winter, looking like a vibrant carpet on your window box. This plant needs a large container.
17. Bidens
Botanical Name: Bidens pilosa
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Fill your window box with the alluring golden-yellow, daisy-shaped Bidens, having a dark eye at the center. Its heat and drought tolerant nature make it a good choice for window boxes.
18. Lobelia
Botanical Name: Lobelia
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Lobelia flowers in blue to purple cardinal flowers over bronze edged green leaves. This sun-loving plant grows in the cluster, and surely one of the best cascading flowers for window boxes.
19. Trailing Geranium Ivy
Botanical Name: Pelargonium peltatum
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Trailing geranium grows ball-shaped trailing flowers in summer. This perennial has pink, red and white flowers that look great hanging down from window boxes.
20. Bacopa
Botanical Name: Bacopa monnieri
Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade
Bacopa has earned this ‘spiller’ title, thanks to its naturally tumbling out of the container attribute. It’s a vibrant flowering plant for summer and fall.
21. Creeping Zinnia
Botanical Name: Sanvitalia procumbens
Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade
Creeping Zinnia acquires small petals and brown ‘eyes,’ resembling mini-sunflowers with beautiful orange or yellow flowers.
22. Wedelia
Botanical Name: Sphagneticola trilobata
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Wedelia is a perennial herb, known as “Creeping-oxeyes.” Many consider this prolific groundcover a weed. Grow it in your windowboxes for a never-ending show of yellow flowers in your balcony or patio.
23. Cypress Vine
Botanical Name: Ipomoea quamoclit
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Ferny and threadlike leaves of Cypress vine look fairylike with star-shaped crimson flowers during summer and fall, attracting sunbirds towards it. It grows well in length and spreads vigorously, 6-8 feet, so use larger window boxes.
24. Trailing Chenille
Botanical Name: Acalypha hispida
Sun Exposure: Full sun
It is also known as Kitten’s tail, because of the tail-like reddish flowers on the heart-shaped leaves over the trailing stem. It blossoms in spring and summer.
25. Skyblue Clustervine
Botanical Name: Jacquemontia
Sun Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
As the name suggests, the sky-blue color blossoms with a bright, flirty eye in the middle of the flower look graceful on this climber. It flourishes from autumn till spring in warm climates.
26. Firecrackers
Botanical Name: Russelia equisetiformis
Sun Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
Firecracker flowers in red, pink, white or lavender colors resemble bursting firecrackers which makes them very showy for the window boxes. They bloom from fall till the summer.
27. Climbing Bougainvillea
Botanical Name: Bougainvillea glabra
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Climbing Bougainvilleas have vigorous growth, so growing them in the window box is a little tricky. Use a large window box to plant them.
28. Wishbone Flower
Botanical Name: Torenia fournieri
Sun Exposure: Full sun
The Wishbone has exotic looking, deep violet-blue or purple flowers, with light shade at the center. It blossoms from spring to summer, and in fall from spring in warm climates.
29. Roses
Botanical Name: Rosa
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Roses are a perfect choice for window boxes. Miniature roses are great for this purpose, check out our article on how to create a miniature rose garden on a balcony!
30. White Gaura
Botanical Name: Oenothera lindheimeri
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Gauras have nectar-rich white, pink flowers that blossom throughout the summer when most of the other flowering plants become dormant.
31. Nasturtium
Botanical Name: Tropaeolum
Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade
Funnel-shaped flowers in pink, red, and yellow hues of Nasturtium are popularly used for window boxes. The edible, bright flowers taste like mustard greens and can be used in salads too.
32. Verbena
Botanical Name: Verbena bonariensis
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Offering a beautiful accent for window boxes, the saucer-shaped flowers come in appealing shades of cream, pink, lavender, and violet.
