Hello, hello, what's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast and today I'm going to be reading from a book that a friend of mine wrote.

His name's Ryan Benoit, him and his co-author, Chantal Aida Gordon, wrote this book called How to Window Box.

And these are ornamental gardeners. They're really big on all sorts of ornamental plants and which is great.

I mean there it's not something I'm used to growing.

I traditionally focus much more on edibles, vegetables, fruits, etc.

However, we all know the beneficial effects of ornamental plants,

along with they just look beautiful, right?

And on top of that, these two are extremely design and aesthetic-minded.

So what's really cool about their book

and kind of reading through it,

you know, for me, a more practical gardener,

I don't really have that in me.

I don't really have that design mindset as much as someone else does,

certainly as much as these two. So I'm just going to go through a couple different considerations

for both outdoor and indoor window boxes.

And I'm gonna go through just a couple other

basic practices, let's call it that.

So our first consideration is sun, right?

So you need to figure out where you live.

You need to figure out what direction your windows face.

This is the key factor.

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