row home owners with a green thumb fastidiously attend to their window boxes – selecting new plants to design an artful blend of colors, shapes and textures. Sonja Dümpelmann is a historian of ...

It’s that time of year when Philadelphia row home owners with a green thumb fastidiously attend to their window boxes – selecting new plants to design an artful blend of colors, shapes and textures.

How did you become interested in window boxes? When I first moved to Philadelphia from Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August 2019, I was immediately struck by the window boxes. The lushness and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sonja Dümpelmann, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (THE CONVERSATION) It’s that ...