Balcony flowers: here's how to recreate a flower garden in your home
How beautiful balcony flowers: by continuing to read you will discover many varieties perfect to make your balconies colorful, fragrant and spectacular and to unleash the envy of your neighbors! Taking care of your plants is very satisfying: they will make you proud even if you don't have a green thumb. Watch the video we have selected for you and discover the other things that reserve you beautiful daily satisfactions!
- · Balcony flowers in full sun
- · Balcony flowers that prefer partial shade
- · Balcony flowers almost all year round
Balcony flowers in full sun
Growing Surfinia is simple: place it in full sun, water it and use a liquid fertilizer suitable for flowering plants. Soon you will be able to admire on your balcony some elegant funnel-shaped flowers of various colors, red, purple, lilac and white and some leaves of a beautiful delicate green. The Potunias unlike Surfinia or Petunia are less sagging. They can be an excellent choice, as they resist very well to the sun and the hottest temperatures. Potunia has an abundant flowering from spring to late summer. Water it regularly, as dry soil will damage it a lot. neither water nor fertilizer. Geranium is always the most loved balcony flower in all its varieties: the Parisian and the hanging ivy, the micranta, the zonal one. It has splendid exuberant flowers that can give you so much joy. Choose terracotta pots or in resin, which are always more breathable than plastic ones and facilitate flowering. Among the many beautiful spots of color, you cannot forget the Plumbago, a simple flower, but so romantic with its soft color that goes from light blue to wisteria This evergreen climbing shrub is not afraid of the sun and heat and adapts very well to cultivation in pots, although it also grows splendidly in the garden. u a balcony with southern exposure: in fact, it needs a lot of sun and the cold damages it. In winter, try to find a place for them in a greenhouse or in a corner more sheltered from the elements. Its beautiful red, pink or white funnel-shaped flowers bloom from May until the first cold weather arrives. Due to the color of its enchanting flowers it is also called blue jasmine. You can let it fall on the railings of the cascading terrace or make it climb, tying the stems to a support. In winter it must be kept sheltered, because it must be protected from the cold.
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Sunpantiens loves the sun very much, compared to other Impatiens varieties. It has large, long leaves and beautiful flowers, which will remain on your balcony or terrace from early spring to November. This plant tolerates both severe summer heat and early autumn rains and gusts very well. Always check the soil moisture in the pots carefully. If it is not watered for too long, it could be damaged. Bougainvillea is a blaze of color, it is the plant of sunshine, it brings to mind the seascapes of the South with its lush bushy blooms. It loves full sun and blooms all summer with very bright flowers from pink to cyclamen: it is a beautiful balcony and terrace plant, a perfect creeper for a gazebo, wall or fence to create naturally separate rooms. cultivated in pots to shelter it in winter, in order to protect it from a too cold climate.
The Solanum jasminoides or jasmine at night will look wonderful on your balcony or terrace, it blooms from May to autumn with beautiful white star flowers. In the cold season it should be kept safe in a greenhouse. For a perfect decorative and suggestive effect. , make it develop vertically on a balcony grate. Another ad hoc advice is the lantana, which blooming from March to September makes your balconies full of flowers changing from yellow, to orange and red or from pink to purple the next day day: a truly incredible sight.
Balcony flowers that prefer partial shade
Callibrachoa loves half shade: it resists rain and heat, but not full sun, so choose a shady spot. It looks like Petunia, has small, brightly colored flowers that cascade down and will keep your balcony blooming. from April to late autumn. Fear the cold: find a cozy shelter in the winter months. Verbena does not like full sun; it is very suitable for growing in pots on balconies. Do not water it too much, because stagnant water will ruin it. Place it in half shade and you will enjoy the splendor of its flowers of many colors, purple, lilac, light red, purple red, white and soft pink that bloom in summer and last throughout the autumn months. Like Sunpatiens, New Guinea too. belongs to the Impatiens genus. It prefers filtered, not direct sun: therefore place it in half shade. Water it consistently so it doesn't get too hot. In the first cold weather it fades. Its flowers are white, red, pink or striped. It will look great on your balconies.
Balcony flowers almost all year round
Having a nice balcony or terrace in a city apartment is truly wonderful; it will be your garden, an environment to embellish with your beautiful plants and comfortable and colorful outdoor furniture: in a place to use and enjoy especially in summer both during the day with the sun and in the evening to take a little cool, having dinner and breathing clean air. Having flowering plants for many months of the year is really a dream come true. The awakening nature affects mood, thoughts, cheers our sight and makes us look a little more beautiful. There are plants that resist outdoor almost all year round. Try growing them even if you are an amateur gardener. For example, Petunia blooms until October. In order not to let it be ruined by wind and rain in the coldest period, do not forget to remove all the petals of the damaged corollas so that it can be reborn luxuriantly. Viburnum tinus is a typical Mediterranean evergreen, with white and pink flowers. Positioned in a well-sheltered corner, it will give you flowers with an intense fragrance, between autumn and spring. It has decorative leaves and blue berries before the flowers bloom. Sedum strenuously resists the cold even in winter; is an evergreen flowering in late summer with purple-red flowers. It can also be used as a plant to cover terrace walls. The yarrow is a perennial plant, which adapts to any type of soil and climate. To embellish the balcony with a particular plant, place it halfway up, not on the floor. Do not cover it with taller plants that take away the sun and air, so that it can show off beautiful long leaves and fragrant flowers to dry.
