Balcony design with flowers

With the advent of the warm season, stone jungle of megacities are filled with bright colors, including delightful flowers on the balcony. Designers offer many interesting ways to design balconies and loggias with vegetation, but the best option depends on many factors. At 2-3 square meters of the city balcony, to create a small green island for each forces. Flowers and plants do not have to root in suspended pots and floral boxes, there are many original techniques to decorate the balcony for the summer.

Where to start the design of the balcony?

Before starting a landscaping process, it is important to decide in advance what flowers to plant on the balcony and evaluate all the possibilities:

• is there enough free area and planes for suspended boxes and pots for flowers;
• is there enough light for the normal growth of plants;
• what will be the general style of design;
• how is a strongly used balcony;
• open or glazed balcony;
• is there a desire to see the same plants or give preference to a change in seasonal vegetation?

• First, we determine the type of balcony and its capabilities, since the spacious glazed loggia and a narrow, a barred balcony are formed differently. The well -thought -out decoration of the balcony with flowers makes it possible to use the maximum number of colors to transform a small corner of the apartment. It will be the best place for a pleasant vacation or creative pastime.

Tip: A country house with landscape design will favorably complement the noble spot gardening. A gray facade with balconies in a typical layout house will be decorated with a grate with climbing plants on the south side, giving a shadow. A perimeter of a simple balcony framed by suspended boxes with fragrant flowers will emphasize the individuality of the owners of the apartment or house. Fragrant flowers on the balcony of the first floor will help to kill the smell from the basement of a common house or from other unpleasant sources.

• We prepare space for plants. In our compatriots, this part of the apartment is reserved for storage of rarely used items. And in most foreign citizens, the balcony is more like a green oasis for relaxation. By the way, the fashion for landscaping of small balconies came from Venice, where there is an excess of dampness from intimacy with channels. Suspended pots and boxes for strongly smelling flowers and spicy spices were used for natural aeration: the draft pulled all these fragrances into the apartments of the townspeople. This custom quickly picked up the whole of Europe - flowers on the balcony photo.

Tip: It is reasonable to start the ennoble of the balcony from the audit - throw the trash, sort the tools by boxes, rarely used items to remove away from the eyes. Flowers can also be used for masking - the side wall of the balcony with a working tool will hide the grill with climbing plants or a collection of violets well. Large flowerpots and pots with rare plants distract attention from objects that there is nowhere to store. With decorative curly colors for the balcony, you can surround a chair or deck chair, as well as fenced off the recreation area from the corner-master.

• When deciding how to arrange a balcony with flowers, it is important to minimize the permissible load on the balcony. Keep in mind that plants, metal parts for fasteners of flower boxes, pots, flowerpots and pots with land that filling them and decorative stones are an additional 100-300 kg, especially after abundant watering of flowers.

Tip: the easier the arrangement of landscaping the balcony, the more space and more pleasant aesthetic sensation, so you should not clutter it with large boxes and tubs. Give preference to plants with a small root system with abundant flowering. It is important to periodically check the reliability of fastening of shelves, containers and pots. Check the pallets for excess water from watering - it is important that their contents do not flow on the heads of the neighbors and do not create prerequisites for mold, especially when there is access to rain watering on an open balcony.

• The style of designing the balcony with flowers plays a decisive role - often the minimum number of plantings creates the maximum effect. It is important to dwell on the option that will be most appropriate in your conditions. The glazed balcony is used not only for relaxation, but also as a functional area.

Tip: living plants and fragrant flowers noticeably ennoble both the balcony-master, and the place to work at the computer, and the dining area around a small console, where it is nice to have dinner together in the summer.

• The balcony is able to replace a small garden if you sow the curly parsley and dill in the suspended boxes next to the flowers and plant onions. You can also add racks with strawberries and decorative forms of vegetables of Dutch selection, grown only on balconies: Bulgarian pepper, tomatoes, cucumbers and bothering beans.

Tip: Special sowing material is ordered by catalogs. Specially bred forms of vegetable crops for balconies not only take up little space and do not require much land for the root system. The balcony vegetables look very beautiful at different stages - seedlings, flowering, fruiting. However, for a plentiful harvest, it is important to observe the technology of their cultivation in specially prepared grounds with mandatory top dressing. But in this case, the competent design of the balcony with flowers is important.

Methods for decorating a balcony with flowers

1. Depending on the type of facade of the building, a well -thought -out floral design will help to ennoble, draw attention to a certain part of it or distract from non -aesthetic areas.

• the smooth inconspicuous facade is well decorated with flowers placed on geometric lines;
• smooth lines in the architecture of the building can be decorated with asymmetry or point large suspension pots and baskets with flowers;
• if 2 balconies are combined into a single line or one long go around the corner of a multi -storey building, then the containers should not be suspended along the railing at all lengths;
• the combined design looks spectacular, where all the planes are used - flowerpots, boxes and pots on the floor, shelves on the wall of the house, hanging pots on the ceiling plane, etc.

2. If there is no clear certainty with what flowers to grow on the balcony, then you should not rush to purchase everything in a row or set all indoor plants from the apartment. Of course, they will benefit the abundance of natural light and rain watering, but do not forget that pets are not adapted to withstand the gusts of the wind to the scorching sun and temperature extremes. Their stay on the open balcony should be episodic, they are not considered as the main filling of open balconies. But in the glazed zone, indoor flowers for the summer on the balcony will be very appropriate - pelargonium, aloe, violets, cyclamen, begonia, etc.

3. Particular attention should be paid to curly and clinging plants, which are successfully used for vertical landscaping. They are able to turn an ordinary balcony into a kind of abundantly blooming garden arbor or a pricing ivy of an English courtyard. By the way, ivy is an ideal plant for landscaping open balconies, it does not need a lot of fertile soil and ideal conditions. It does not matter with him how to decorate the balcony with flowers-the dark green background of graceful leaflets of ivy will favorably shade 3-4 flowerpots with petunia and other bright summer plantations. And when they bloom, ivy can be left on the balcony until the first frosts, and then cut the largest layering and let it be wintering in the apartment.

4. Green oasis from southern exotes is a great option for glazed loggia or balcony from the southern or western side of the house, where there is a lot of light and heat. Indoor lemons and tangerines, monetary trees, “palm trees” and other plants with “southern appearance” are suitable here. If you do not know what flowers to be planted on the balcony with this type of landscaping, take into account that they should be in harmony with the rest of the tropics.

5. The Japanese Garden of Bonsai on the balcony is one of the most exquisite methods of landscaping a glazed balcony. Dwarf trees in containers and flat bowls with fleshy succulents among the stones will become the main decoration of this part of the apartment in the Japanese style. For a general impression, suspended pots with a full -color form of pink petunia resembling a blooming sakura are added. Flat shielded curtains in the Japanese style with prints in the form of hieroglyphs will complete the overall design.

6. Dry -resistant succulents in flat containers with stones are also well suited for the improvement of balconies, where voluminous flowers are undesirable. For example, when there are several young children in the family, and a lot of underwear is often dried on the balcony. These plants are well tolerated when they are forgotten to water or broken into pieces, they will quickly let the roots in a glass of water and take root again. The second option, when a glazed balcony is used as a gym, and many voluminous flowering plants are inappropriate here. Small flowers on the balcony will fit with any design.

Tip: succulents are ideal plants for any room, besides, they bloom surprisingly beautifully, but they are like to bite cats. Therefore, it makes sense to place them in an inaccessible place, and it is better for pets to sow special grass in a container for vitamins if cats are not on the street.

7. One of the most difficult ways of designing a balcony with flowers is all -season, that is, to choose the plants so that they delight the eye all year round.

• spring: onion flowers of early spring flowering and primroses;
• summer: most annual colors and perennials;
• autumn: asters, dahlias, chrysanthemums;
• winter: miniature coniferous plants with decorative cones and other fruits.

8. The type of lighting and climatic conditions also affect the method of landscaping the balcony with flowers and decorative plants.

• the northern side is not suitable for most colors on the balcony, but wild grapes, fragrant peas, phloxes will take root in the southern latitudes;
• plants do not take root in the northern latitudes in open balconies, and even on the south side of the glazed loggia they may lack light;
• posya is loved by petunia, nasturtium pelargonium;
• in the drafts of the upper floors, low -growing forms of plants such as cleaning, lawn grass, velvet, margarita, etc.;
• flowers on the balcony from the sunny side - garden curly perennial and sowing plants take root well.

The choice of boxes and pots for balcony flowers

Non -standard containers to plant flowers will help you beautifully arrange an open or glazed balcony:

• a conventional trough can be covered with a colored mosaic of a broken ceramic tile planted on liquid nails, the gaps can be filled with an ordinary cement mixture with the addition of construction glue PVA or building sealant;
• the same ceramic pots can be painted in a different color for greater decorativeness;
• the old voluminous dishes without pens will ennoble the gluing with a cord, a twine or a rope laid tightly in a spiral;
• boxes for balcony flowers can be knocked independently from the trimming of the beam that can be ordered in any carpentry workshop - they are painted in a natural texture;
• unexpected options from rubber children's boots or old garden rails have long become a “classic” of garden jewelry, and these finds are successfully used for the design of balconies.

Tip: It is important to take into account that casop, baskets, boxes, pots, flowerpots and containers for balcony flowers are selected for specific plants. It is prudent to choose their shape, value and their total number, depending on how they look from the outside (open balcony), and inside the closed territory. Do not abuse the depth of the boxes, if this does not require a developed indigenous plant system - it is better to focus on nutrient soil with top dressing. The soil is changed 1 time per year, preferably in early spring or autumn, when flowers are degraded. Most colors have enough 15-25 cm.

Balcony plant care

If containers for landscaping the balcony with flowers are filled with properly prepared soil, then the care of the plants will be minimal. It comes down to timely watering, spraying and top dressing as needed. Flowers in pots are placed on well -fortified stands or hinged boxes for drawers, so as not to accidentally overturn them and not drop them from the balcony. It is important that the plants are not crowded, there is enough heat and light, taking into account their growth and abundant flowering.

You can not save on the quality of the soil, although some can be grown by a hydropone method - on a nourishing aqueous solution. Done stony soil is suitable for succulents. Many flowers prefer a mixture of soil and sand fertilized peat, but its sour medium is not acceptable for all plants, so a crushed egg shell is added there.

Feeding of plants should not be done too often, they need it during a period of violent flowering or fruiting. The balcony forms of vegetable crops are fed with different fertilizers according to the cultivation technology, depending on the stage of development. Most young plants need regular and abundant watering, except for the inhabitants of the desert. Tropical forms must be sprayed in the morning and in the evening, but not under the scorching rays, so that the drip microlysis does not lead to burns of delicate leaves.

Interior design ideas on the balcony

1. The small balcony should not be cluttering with a large number of pots and containers, it is enough to limit yourself to small boxes along the outer perimeter with hanging plants of abundant flowering. You can add 2 pots in the corners at the ceiling and 2-3 high flowerpots with bushy decorative plants or limit yourself to one flat stand for indoor plants. Complete the environment with folding furniture or stacked plastic chairs and a folding countertop.

2. A room for relaxing on a spacious balcony can be decorated as an open terrace, where all planes for landscaping with different colors are used. But here it is important not to overdo it and adhere to one style. Even a small double sofa, including suspended, is suitable as furniture. If the owners spend a lot of time here in the summer, resting after a difficult day, it is worth planting a night violet in containers for a delightful aroma that it gives all night. In such an atmosphere, a small electric grill and a coffee maker in the table are also appropriate, as well as woven garden furniture with upholstered pillows.