Bonsai Window Box Garden

If you live in an urban environment and enjoy the usual view (e.g. busy road, car park, or the back of an office block) then you might yearn for something more natural and appealing to look at instead. To achieve this a window box would be affixed outside the window and contain sufficient plants, etc to obscure the normal view and replace it with a manicured parkland. It would be designed to give you the illusion of looking out of the window into a park or woodland.

This differs from your normal window box containing regular plants, as the miniature landscape would be planted with a variety of bonsai trees, shrubs and moss 'lawns'. You could incorporate a selection of miniature park-type ornamental sculptures, lamps, etc. for a more convincing distance effect. It can be banked at the rear to give a more layered effect with the trees - this creates a greater depth of field and adds to the illusion.

Using specific trees & accessories you could create famous public gardens or landscapes e.g. Hyde Park or the Amazon rainforest. The boxes could come as pre-designed templates or scuplt-your-own. Water features and small fish could also be included to give you something else to watch.

I'm definitely going to create one of these when I have a flat in town - at the moment I look out onto my garden with nothing but lawn & trees to see and would hate to give that up!