Mailbox Garden Ideas

By Jamie McIntosh, About.com Guide

The landscape around a mailbox can face harsh growing conditions. Car fumes, radiating heat from the asphalt, and ice melting chemicals conspire to kill weak garden specimens. Turn your mailbox into a container garden with mailbox planters to lift delicate plants out of harm’s way. These pelargoniums will bloom from spring until frost suspended in wire baskets lined with coco coir.