Balcony Landscaping

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Let's try to create our own "garden of Babylon" right on the balcony and give our family and passers-by the beauty of a flower garden. The decorated balcony attracts admiring glances and creates a joyful mood

When creating a flower garden on the balcony of an apartment, show your design skills, give scope to your imagination. Combine different plants into a beautiful composition, harmoniously combining their decorative qualities, color, flowering time, growth and size.

Remember that the balcony must meet the conditions necessary for the flowers to develop.

First, look for indoor plants that thrive in the open air and bloom profusely. At the end of spring, they need to be taken out of the room. Determine the direction of the balcony and the need for flowers in the summer for warmth, light, water, humidity - this is the vital factor of balcony plants. Not every plant can live on a balcony, especially under the scorching sun. If your balcony faces the south - east, south - west, south side, then plant netcreasia, dracaena, aloe, cacti, laurel, yucca, salvia, agave. These flowers love the sun, and with a lack of light, they stretch out, the leaves become faded and bloom poorly.

Fuchsia, balsam, oleander, zebrina, tuberous begonia, aspidistra, ivy avoid the bright sun, and they feel great on the northern and eastern balconies.

Think in advance about the arrangement of flowers on the balcony. Give your plants a place near the wall or in the corners of the balcony, where they will suffer less from the wind. Very often the area of the balcony is small and it is very difficult to place all the desired flowers on it. Use vertical arrangement of flower containers or sophisticated flower girls when collecting flowers into groups. On the upper tier, plant decorative - deciduous, ampelous species, on the middle - flowering ones, create a flower bed on the lower tier. Supplement your indoor flowers with outdoor plants - annuals, biennials, or perennials - by setting up an elegant balcony garden.

Annuals will delight you with abundant flowering from early summer to late autumn; they are unpretentious, develop rapidly and bloom, possessing various flower colors, leaf shapes and produce an excellent decorative effect. Choose the one you like from the many varieties of annual plants. Low-growing alyssums, petunias, curly nasturtiums, fragrant mignonette look good. The most photophilous of them are sage, snapdragon, levkoy, petunia. On the northern sides, you can grow fragrant tobacco, marigolds, nasturtiums.

Two-year-old species - pansies, daisies, Turkish carnations, they go through a development cycle in two seasons: in the summer they are only sown, in the fall a rosette of leaves is formed; after overwintering, the plants bloom in spring and delight with their beauty until the end of summer.

Perennial plants grow and bloom in one place for several years, their flowering period is short. These plants are not very suitable for growing on the balcony, since there is a high possibility of freezing them, in contrast to garden plants. Even winter-hardy varieties of flowers should be covered, and if the balcony is cold, taken to the basement. When choosing perennial plants to decorate your balcony, fix your gaze on vines, for example, maiden grapes, clematis, honeysuckle, honeysuckle. Curly stems will allow you to beautifully decorate the walls with greenery and turn the balcony into a cozy gazebo for relaxation. Having planted a liana on the balcony, with its dense greenery, it will create natural protection for plants and dwelling inhabitants from the sun, street noise, dust. Vines have a strong and strong root system, so grow in deep containers.

To make the balcony look elegant all summer long, pick up plants with different flowering periods. In May, the balcony will be decorated with colorful crocuses, tulips, primroses, daisies, forget-me-nots. Without waiting for the end of their flowering, plant the grown seedlings of annuals, most of which will bloom in the summer. It can be alissum, levkoi, sweet peas. From July until frost, you will be delighted with the flowering of marigolds, chrysanthemums, and the leaves of maiden grapes and woodworms with bright beauty.

When you decorate a balcony in a classic solid color scheme, choose colors that are in harmony. For example, in a blue shade, compose compositions from a Dalmatian bell and symphiandra, in pink - from verbena, pelargonium and lobelia. Use a variety of fashionable decorations such as turntables, ceramic and glass figurines. They will add variety and originality to the flower arrangement, create the image of a cozy Garden of Eden.