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alt. 1 A container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window. 2 (context computing programming English) A comment in source code that spans several lines, each of which begins with an asterisk. n. 1 A container in which flowers or plants are grown, usually affixed outside just below a window. 2 (context computing programming English) A comment in source code that spans several lines, each of which begins with an asterisk.
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ A flower box is a type of container in the form of a planter or box that is usually placed outdoors and used for displaying live plants and flowers, but it may also be used for growing herbs or other edible plants.
It is usually placed or affixed to an accessible location so the resident of a home may easily work with the plants in the container. A flower box may be installed under a window and supported in place by brackets on the wall below, in which case it may be called a window box. Flower boxes may also be used to line decks, patios, porches, steps, and sidewalks and they can even be hung from railings.
Wood, brick, metal, fiberglass, vinyl, and cellular PVC can all be used in flower box construction, with wood being a classical material of choice. A typical wooden container will last 3–5 years before showing signs of rot. With painting and maintenance they can sometimes last 10–15 years. Fiberglass has the advantage of being lightweight and insect proof. Vinyl and cellular PVC are plastics which are completely rot proof alternatives to wood which are often used on homes to prevent rot or siding damage.
Sometimes a box is placed inside a kitchen window in order to grow herbs or other supplies for a chef as an easily accessed miniature kitchen garden.
J. Linderski has argued that Pliny described flower boxes in his Naturalis Historia, at 19.59. However, Linderski could only find one other allusion to this practice in Martial 11.18.
Usage examples of "flower box".
Given that all she had to do was deliver the flower box to Julia, someone has gone to a hell of a lot of effort to stash her away.
She hesitated only a moment before she stepped carefully around the bum who slept in front of the beer-can-filled flower box under the narrow front window.
The only sound in the room was the buzz of a solitary bumblebee as it meandered from flower box to flower box.
Yurgos, head and shoulders thrust out past the leaves and blossoms in the flower box, was bending over them like some hideous gargoyle, his face contorted with fury.
They were beautiful buildings, with large glass windows curtained in embroidered cloth, the red tile roofs making a pleasing contrast with the honey colour of the stone and each window bearing a flower box overflowing with brilliant blooms.
There was the shuffle of feet and someone clearing his throat and Mister Dillon howling in the barracks and Orvie Garrett telling him to calm down and the sound of Matt Babicki's static-drowned radio from dispatch, where the window (now denuded of its flower box, thanks to Curt) had been left open.