Take A Look At My Nook

Tuesday, March 25th 2008, 5:36pm by Vanillalotus

Center of the right side of my balcony.

I've been avoiding showing my balcony. I'm not sure why I just don't feel I've made the jungle I envisioned. Like I mentioned before I have many times just stuck plants where there is room in a container. Things look a bit different now. I'm always moving containers around so it never stays the same for too long. Let me show you the right side of my balcony. If you come out of my sliding screen door this will be on the right.


Here you see the big green planter. The green planter right in the middle contains many things and is always changing when things die. Right now it has dianthus tall double flowering mix, grape hyacinths, one hyacinth woodstock, a candytuft, phlox of sheep seedlings, and possibly dusty miller seedlings. Right in front is a tray with little pots most are plastic some are peat. There is the dieing sweet basil, the two dead coleus, and needpoint ivy in peat pots. In plastic pots there are dimorphotheca aurantica african moon, mt fuji morning glories and gaillardia razzle dazzle. In front of that tray is my seed tray that has parsley big mountain, laurentia, nemesia mello red and white, and more dimorphotheca aurantica african moon.

Upper right side of my balcony to the left of the green planter.

 

This is the upper right corner of the balcony. Here to the left and in front of the large green planter in the orange pot is the cocktail vodka begonia. It likes this spot a lot. I had it somewhere else and it wasn't happy. To the left of the begonias in the large container in the corner is the juanita hatten bougainvillea. It doesn't look like much now but hopefully it will come back soon. In front of the bougainvillea are some daylilies..not sure what varieties any more, maybe cold harbor and windsor castle. In front of the daylilies in the black container is the unknown jasmine. I'm not sure if the jasmine would do well somewhere else. I haven't bothered to move the jasmine but maybe I should. To the left of the jasmine is the not fairing well two woodstock hyacinths, the thriving candytuft, and the not so well godetia. If front of that container is the evening primrose. No blooms on the primrose yet but there are many buds. Lastly to the right of the evening primrose container are the newly transplanted grape hyacinths. They were in a glass bowl and just weren't doing well. It was intended for them to be forced inside but I never brought them back in one day.

Lower right side of my balcony to the right of the green planter.

 

Lastly my bottom right corner. Probably the corner I like the most. Things do fairly well here because they get sun but aren't blasted like the upper right corner. Lets start in the back. Right behind the white container and super large container hidden is the corkscrew vine. It's nicely climbing it's way up the railing. Pretty soon I'm going to have to make it go to the left. The white container has stock tudor tapesty and sweet pea bijou mix. To the right of that is the super big container in the corner with many dayliles. Each is a different variety of daylily I'll see which is which when/if they bloom. To the left of those two containers is the flowering pansy. In front of the pansies going left to right is mint, then corkscrew vine, then the minerva amaryllis. The large rectangular container has daylilies and grape hyacinths. To the left of the rectangular container is woodstock hyacinths in the glass vase (shame on me) and devils backbone (someone kindly found out what my mystery plant was). To the right of all of that are 3 little pots. 2 pots have gaillardia razzle dazzle seedlings and 1 has a grape hyacinth. There is another little pot hidden between the pansy and mint that has more grape hyacinths.

That is my right side. It contains the most of my plants. I know it's ugly I should have spared your eye. Nah I like my corner. It's my first spring so next year I'll know what to do better and actually plan. Sorry for all the misspelling and grammar mistakes I'm horrible at my own native language, english.

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Thanks for sharing pictures of your balcony! I love it! When my vegetable seedlings get re-potted from the "flat" stage but aren't quite ready to be outside full time my house gets pretty crowded. Anything with a flat surface gets plants piled onto it and pushed toward the window. I wish I had some pictures of it.

One year I monopolized the kitchen table for a good 6 weeks. My husband starting referring to our kitchen table as the "green house." I can't wait to have a real green house. Or at least becoming more knowledgeable about cold frames might give us a little more room in our house during spring.
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Wow! What an amazing (and varied) collection! I'm so impressed. And please keep the pictures coming. :)
Butterfly
June- I wish I could put plants inside. I hardly have any surface that is close enough to the windows. All the plants I start insides just get so leggy. I start most of mine outside when I can so they come out dealing with the elements and I don't have to harden them off. There were some seeds that didn't sprout so I may have to try those inside first. Good luck on getting a green house or cold frame. They are so useful and you will be able to plant so much more. I know a greenhouse is on my want list when I actually have a yard.

Lance- Thanks. I like to try many different things. I won't let having a balcony keep me from only having a few plants. I'll cram in as much as I possibly can.
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I think it looks charming! I'd love to sit on the balcony with a book and an apple, amongst all the lovely greenery. You've created quite an oasis for yourself.
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