Songbirds will look for seeds in the spent flowers. You may find that a crab spider or even a praying mantis has moved into your green corner, the beginnings of a simple ecosystem. While it may seem that your city street-side window box is a lonely green island in a concrete and asphalt sea, don't underestimate your chances for success. For example, several years ago a popular gardening television shov organized a contest for container gardeners. One of the finalists was a woman whose rooftop garden in downtown Chicago overlooked Lake Michigan.
Most garden centers offer a variety of containers for gardening.
Some of the traditional clay and concrete forms may be too heavy for your needs, but a wide range of styles in lighter weight plastics guarantee that you can find something suitable. Mounting hardware provides many options for attaching containers to walls, patio railings, lamps, and fence posts. Container gardens can easily transform an apartment balcony, townhouse patio, building rooftop, or even a hopelssly compacted spot of poor soil into a site for wildlife. Container gardens are also easy and inexpensive to construct. The traditional Mother's Day hanging basket of fuchsia or impatiens is a great starting point for your container wildlife garden, but you need not stop there.