Tips on growing flowers on the balcony during the Spring Festival

Balcony decoration principles

Different balcony types and different plant materials can create scenery with different styles. For example, in order to highlight the decorative effect and form a sharp color contrast, you can use warm-toned plants and flowers to decorate the cool-toned balcony, or vice versa, to make the balcony flowers more colorful and eye-catching. Balconies with better sunlight should be decorated with light-loving plants that have both flowers and leaves, while balconies with poorer sunlight should be decorated with shade-tolerant plants that prefer coolness.

Balcony beautification method

There are many ways to beautify the balcony, such as the common flower box style, overhanging style, and flower pile style. Flower boxes are generally rectangular, and they save balcony area and space whether placed or hung. Place the cultivated potted flowers in flower boxes, and hang the flower boxes on the outside of the balcony with hooks or place them flat on the edge of the balcony railing wall. Use the bottom surface of the upper balcony to hang growing flowers. This method is called hanging style and is an excellent three-dimensional decoration. The flower pile style is a method commonly used by the people, which is to arrange various potted flowers in order of size and height, and place them inside the balcony or on the balcony's railing wall.

Balcony decoration plant selection

The choice of plants and flowers for balcony decoration varies depending on the arrangement form, and the type of plants to be selected is also different. Generally speaking, when using flower boxes, you can choose some drought-resistant flowers that like the sun, have many branches, numerous flowers, and a long flowering period, such as geranium, chrysanthemum, dahlia, vinca, etc. If you use the hanging style, you can choose to use creeping grass, small-leaf ivy, nasturtium, etc. There are many kinds of plants that can be used to beautify the balcony with flower piles, but you should pay attention to clear layers and unified style. The types should not be too many or too complicated. You can choose chrysanthemums, roses, cyclamen, asparagus fern, coleus, etc.