can I see your mailbox garden to get an idea for the next summer. Mine is bare right now, I really would like to make it look nice Thank you!

if you scroll down on this page, there is a mailbox that muddyshoes posted. i've seen some on other threads but can't remember which ones. hope gardeners here who have mailboxes will post their pictures for you. mine is ordinary.. no flowers on it.

here's some more ideas i googled...
http://www.google.com/search?q...sAQ&biw=1234&bih=690

This message has been edited. Last edited by: bana,

I'm rural so not a lot I can do since our box is across the road from our property. I planted a cream colored lantana there this year. Everything else I had tried died due to no water available except rain...and it runs off pretty fast in that spot. I also have fire ants that like that area...they may have contributed to the others dying.

I've seen irises planted around rural mailboxes - also Autumn Joy sedums clustered around the post.

Please be very careful what you plant on/near a mailbox. Have a dear friend and also a b-i-l who are both mailmen and flowers attract bees and bugs, etc. Not pleasant getting stung delivering mail.

Thank you for the link!
beautiful photos, very helpful, too.
I love irises too, but they bloom in spring. I am looking to plant all summer bloomers. yesterday I made a flower bed around it, and this morning planted three mums. Hope they will survive our winter (S. WI), and will come up the next year.
Looking at the picture, I will go with some vines also. And some spring flowers.
Thank you everyone who posted.

Here's a link that is cool!
http://www.fleamarketgardening...boxes-in-the-garden/

I enjoyed admiring the mailbox garden photos in the links you ladies posted. That was fun! Our house shares a mailbox hotel so to speak down the street. Very uninspiring.