What flowers to plant on the balcony
Flowering plants become a necessary element of flower arrangements for landscaping terraces and balconies throughout the year, because they can grow and bloom in hanging planters, high stands and containers fixed to the railings of balconies and terraces.
1 blue lobelia with a combination of yellow scevola, 2 multicolored calibrachoa.
What flowers to choose for a sunny balcony
Ampelous petunia-surfinia, verbena, pelargonium, bacopa are simply created for growing in hanging planters. But to create “spherical” flower beds, profusely flowering annuals falling in flowering stems – calibrachoa and scevola are suitable. The magnificent bouquet is woven from many colorful calibrachoa flowers, and the blue lobelia is expertly mixed with the yellow flowers of the scevola.
3- White scevola combined with pink and blue surfinia petunia. 4 – large petunia flowers combined with delicate lobelia and white bacopa. 5- Purple petunia-surfinia combined with bacopa and calibrachoa.
Ampelous begonia, balsam, fuchsia, nemesia, lobelia are also suitable for growing in hanging pots. However, these plants do not tolerate the open sun well, it is better to hang them in partial shade.
1 ampelous begonia, 2.3 fuchsia.
What flowers are suitable for flower arrangements
In balcony compositions, you can combine ampelous-shaped plants with plants of other shapes.
For example, red zonal pelargonium, which grows uphill, looks great, and from below you can plant white bacopa, ivy, or white verbena. Cereal plants can also be combined with ampelous plants – such flower arrangements will be unusual and at the same time very beautiful.
1-cereals, pelargonium, bacopa. 2-Pelargonium, Bacopa, Calibrachoa. 3-Pelargonium zonal and bacopa. 4- Zinnia, calibrachoa.
Caring for plants on balconies
Abundant and regular watering without top dressing will not give results. How to plant, how to care for plants in pots, read our article ” Caring for plants in containers” and “Features of planting plants in different containers”.
1- White and pink begonia. 2- Ampelous pelargonium combined with dark blue surfinia. 3- Multicolored surfinia combined with ivy and bacopa. 4 – delicate balsam flowers combined with ivy.
Advice! It is better to grow ampelous plants in hanging ceramic pots, rather than in plastic ones. Small plastic pots hold little soil, it dries out quickly, the roots dry out and breathe poorly. This, of course, does not apply to large balcony containers, because there the volume of soil is much larger than in pots.
Do not be afraid to fantasize when landscaping your houses and apartments, and also carefully study the features of growing ampelous plants, and then, you will create your own incredible garden even on a small area of a balcony or terrace!
