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I knew I’d come to the right place when I looked out the window beyond her desk and saw — a window box.

Surrounded by pavement but longing for a garden, her grandfather built a window box that sat outside on a flat roof that could be accessed only through a bedroom window.

Beautiful limestone mansions showed off topiary gardens of starfruit trees and window boxes bursting with moonflowers.

Add cold-season plantings like primroses, pansies, heather and cyclamen to pots and window boxes.

So that's the third major principle, thinking about and involving yourself in the natural world in some way, even if that's just having a window box if you can't get out.