A green oasis on your balcony

Unfortunately, in our time, very few people can boast of having a garden, and many want to grow something. Therefore, growing berries, vegetables, flowers, herbs at home on the balcony or windowsill is gaining great popularity. This concept is called “solitude with nature”. This is the latest trend in gardening, since many are already harvesting a good harvest from these beds. In this article, we will analyze which plants should be planted and at what time so that your balcony is no worse than an ordinary country garden and pleases you and your guests.

What plants can be grown on the balcony

To do this, you can use annual and perennial, shade-tolerant and sun-loving, blooming and delighting plants with a riot of greenery. Even herbs and some garden crops will come in handy here. But the right choice will depend on the specific conditions of their cultivation. The set of plants for a winter and summer garden is completely different.

What we plant in the winter garden

The base of the winter garden on the balcony is houseplants. For most of them, the normal temperature is not lower than + 15 ° C, and the humidity is 60-80%. The green mass is usually represented by ornamental deciduous plants.

They will make your interior bright and saturated: heres and erika, geranium, euonymus, juniper, hydrangea and chrysanthemums.
Succulents are hardy plants. They perfectly tolerate interruptions in watering, fairly high temperatures, low air humidity. Also, some of the popular "guests" in the apartments are different types of cacti and dwarf conifers. These plants tolerate temperatures down to -5 degrees.

It's important to know! With the exception of gardenia and anthurium, other decorative flowering plants prefer good diffused light.

What we plant in the summer garden

If you only want to grow your garden in the summer, there are some handy green ideas.

Plants such as various types of beautiful roses, petunia, verbena, pansies, fuchsia and kufea will make your balcony picturesque and shining.

Houseplants. For a summer garden on your balcony, flowers that are in the apartment are also suitable, since the air temperature allows them to be taken outside without any damage to their growth and development. It is only important to protect them from direct sunlight, to which many indoor plants are not adapted, and to prepare them for the move gradually, for example, at first, take them out only for the daytime. Feel great on the balcony: palm trees, violets and cyclamen.

Herbs. It will be useful to grow herbs on the balcony. After all, they can be used in the future in the cooking of your home dishes. Grow - parsley, basil, thyme and more, which you often use in cooking your favorite dishes.

Vegetable crops. Also, growing these plants will be a huge plus. After all, the taste of fresh homemade tomatoes and cucumbers cannot be compared at all with what is on the supermarket shelves. Grow cherry tomatoes and small cucumber varieties on your balcony.

A green garden on your balcony is not just an interior decoration, but an opportunity to communicate with wildlife, which we forget about in the city bustle of gray everyday life, and it is also a fascinating hobby that grows into something more. With a little fantasy, each of you can recreate the fascinating look of your green piece of paradise: a garden-garden on the balcony, a corner of a rainforest or even a wonderful world of desert vegetation with cacti and agaves.