Garden on the balcony— how to decorate the walls and what plants to choose

To grow on the balcony, a blossoming garden is not that difficult. How to decorate the walls and some plants for the balcony to tell decorator and landscape designer in our material.

Organizing the garden on the balcony you can follow the trends in horticultural fashion, for example, to do to place plants and flowers in one color – blue, pink, or arrange a garden of herbs.

For the decoration of the walls of the balcony we suggest using the decorator technique of artificial aging of the wall. Choosing the plants for planting on the balcony you need to consider some features of balcony garden:

On the balcony well I will look plants that familiar look in gardens, parks, open ground: herbaceous perennials, shrubs, evergreens. But be aware that the root system of a plant planted in pots are prone to winterkill.



In order to protect the perennials from frost, it is important to choose the right pot. Now in all specialized stores, you can find frostproof ceramic pots, marked with a special label with a picture of a snowflake.

Moreover, such a pot can further insulate. To do this, use the nonwoven fabric was lutrasil that gardeners often use to shelter your greenhouse plants. Thin lutrasil must be folded in four layers (more dense in two) and put them with the entire inner surface of the pot. Then pour a layer of expanded clay, after earth. And here is the pot ready for planting plants.



Another secret. Choosing garden center plants for balcony, buy one with a root system is closed. If the plants are sold in the same pot in which it grew up or have lived for a while during the transfer it will make it hurt less.

From the point of view of landscape design on the balcony is good to combine plants of different form and structure. And in addition to flowering plants on the balcony is to place shrubs and grass.

So the balcony will look good, these shrubs: juniper, cypress, arborvitae, Japanese spirea, barberry Turanga dwarf, small roses, rhododendron, Kamchatka, hydrangea, cotoneaster, willow purpura.



From lianas to choose: the maiden grapes, grape scented, clematis, honeysuckle perfoliate. Herbaceous perennials: Hosta, geyhera, fern, tyrella, astilba, aruncus primrose.

Do not forget about the small but important accessories that will decorate your little garden, candles, statues, bells, etc.



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