How to create a green space in your home

Spring and summer are the best seasons to be outdoors. With long days, pleasant weather and light, you can take full advantage of the green spaces.

Anyone can create their own corner of "nature": in the courtyard, in the garden and even on a small balcony or terrace. There are many solutions available to create a green space in your home.

If we are lucky enough to have a house with a garden, just choose the best angle in terms of light and set it up with colorful flowers to create a great visual impact, giving color and joy to your green corner. In addition to flowers, you can choose evergreen plants that will embellish the garden all year round, even in autumn and winter.

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What if space is limited? Do not worry, it is also possible to create small green corners on narrow balconies or using the inverted solution. In fact, with simple colored vases or containers you can make the corners of our balconies green, perhaps by creating a small vertical vegetable garden with plants such as basil, rosemary, thyme or sage. Choose wooden or terracotta pots to give a touch of uniformity to the balcony, choose plants suitable for the size of your space and maybe cover the floor with artificial lawn: an economical and surprising solution to recreate the atmosphere of a real garden.

In cases where the space available is really limited, the solution is entirely vertical: with simple wooden panels you can create useful and visually satisfying creations. Even simpler is the version made with panels of storage bags that suspended and hung can become surprising home gardens.

With small tricks you can therefore create a green corner at home even without having a real garden: using the imagination and choosing colored pots we can create a small green spot at home in which to grow plants suitable for interiors such as ficusbenjamina or simply flowers such as hyacinths, amaryllis or orchids. And if we love succulents, we can create a small corner of cacti.