Window box style ideas

Hi,

I have the ugliest wall right in front of my kitchen window and I'm trying to figure out how to cover it up. I'm thinking of getting some long trough style pots and planting something that will cascade down wall.

Problems are that it's a bit of a shady spot and I don't want everything to die off in winter so that the concrete eyesore returns...

Is there anything that will cascade, be pretty, be good in the shade and not competely die in winter? Totally realise that I might be wanting absolutely everything here! Best with me, I'm a gardening newbie!

 

Some Begonias will stand shade and will cascade, but need lifting for winter. Mix them with ivy, as ivy will cascade and be left in all year.

 

Daft question, what do you mean by they'd need lifting?

 

Would a creeping Jenny last through winter? I've read that it can be a nightmare at spreading, but the space where I'd have it is just a concrete wall/walkway so I think it would be ok

 

@Feets
Begonias are tubers and need to be taken out of the compost when the stems are dead in autumn, cut the stems off and then store the tubers in a protective place like in a shed or garage for winter and then in spring, pot them up until it's warm enough to plant out. They are an easy plant to grow year after year.

Creeping Jenny is a ground cover plant and I think it put roots down where it grows, but don't quote me on that. I don't think it suitable for what you want to do in troughs. If you want to grow it to cover walkways, then yes, but as you've seen it can be a nightmare when it gets going.