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Friday Fun: How do your lovely balcony flowers look like (gardens also count!)?

Daniel Ebers

In many parts of the world it is currently summer.
So I'm curious - do you have some beautiful flowers on your balcony or maybe a garden?
Insects are happy about any kind of flowers say experts and in the past we had a small "wild" meadow that bees loved to visit.

Currently we have only a small balcony, some flowers beautify the view and some smell just wonderful.
Do you find the care costly? We have found that most plants only want to be watered every few days - sometimes it is additionally necessary to remove a few faded buds.

Enjoy summer!

Comments

Linda Milne_Togetha Group_

Given that its winter here I have very confused jonquils. Enjoying it however.

nina_schmidt

Only a small box of flowers - but at least some ☺️💐

Daniel Ebers

They are beautiful! So nice to see them enjoying the sun!

Daniel Ebers

I really like the colours! Very nice!

Alex Koxaras -Relational-

Given the fact that flower could potentially attract mosquitos, I avoid having any.
However, I do miss having flower in my balcony, especially with this view (you can see the Acropolis and Parthenon in the back ):

Daniel Ebers

What a great view! Not so many can see famous buildings from their balcony - makes me think if I would trade in a nice view for flowers

Mosquitos can be a pain (literally) - we have some very nasty ones here. They have the potential to keep you up all night.

Alex Koxaras -Relational-

I like flower man.. living a (concrete) city like Athens, with few green spots is really awful. Flowers make your life prettier. You feel more calm (up to the point where bees and mosquitos arrive)

Jack Brickey

I love landscaping and working in the garden. Anything to get my hands dirty I enjoy.

Blue Aster and Hypericum Berry

Andy - PTC Redundant

What a great Friday Fun @Daniel Ebers 💐👏

We do not have a balcony so hope this still counts: following major renovations on our new house we have this amazingly huge pallet left over that the supplier didn't need back (middle).

We've been on Pinterest like crazy to look up flower bed ideas. We cannot wait to get cracking on this project!

Daniel Ebers

They look so nice! I love the quality of the photos and the small details like the wet leaves, just great!

Daniel Ebers

Sure this counts 💐
Very creative - and a nice idea to give a pallet some new duty

Monique vdB

@Alex Koxaras -Relational- wow! That is incredible. I have been to Athens once and I was amazed at how ancient ruins are jumbled up with modern buildings.

Monique vdB

I don't have a balcony but I do have a deck! The only plants I manage to not instantly kill are succulents, and this one succulent does have little yellow flowers.

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Thomas Schlegel

This is our „balcony“:

But to be honest, this is my husband’s success, he loves gardening. I don’t really like digging in the dirt, I’m just the assistant. But of course I love the garden.

Monique vdB

@Thomas Schlegel this is stunning, I cannot wait to come visit and sit in that garden with my morning coffee!

Thomas Schlegel

Or an Abrikoos Jenever in the evening, @Monique vdB

Tom Kakanowski_4k8aym

Not current, but what I had handy. We have lots of bees and hummingbirds that are fans of our flowers

Jack Brickey

Beautiful

Jack Brickey

Save me a seat please!

Tom Kakanowski_4k8aym

Thanks, looks great at night with landscape lighting on. I couldn't have done this without installing a robust irrigation system with a variety of circuits and low flow, I'd inevitably forget to water or get distracted and all would be brown

Brant Schroeder

I do not have a great thumb so flowers are empty pots or withered plants. This is one Friday Fun I will stay on the sidelines and appreciate others posts.

Linda Milne_Togetha Group_

Totally love this. Trying to my hands on some pallets to do similar... on my list of 5,000 other things to do.

Linda Milne_Togetha Group_

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I can totally relate - I'm a "survival of the fittest" gardener, and pots dont contribute to longevity. Ill contribute what & when I can, but mother nature knows better than me how to manage gardens. I leave it to the plants to figure it out.

Daniel Ebers

Those are so robust! I inherited one from my grandma and rumours with the family say this special succulent is now 50 years old.
The little flowers come back every year the same time - fascinating (red little flowers, 20-30 in total).

Daniel Ebers

Awesome! It looks so peaceful. I love the colours of the flowers - just perfect!

Daniel Ebers

No worries We tried some species that obviously also felt not very comfortable on our balcony either - it is always a bit of trying, being sad, watering and ... trying different ones, eventually some of them grow

Alexander Pappert

I only got this one in my office

text: I now got artificial ones, the real ones always perish

Andy - PTC Redundant

Noice one...!!
Thanks Daniel.

I know the pain Linda! "I got 5,000 things to do and a Trello Card for every single one!"

Hana Kučerová

My husband takes care of every flower at our flat, I even don't know how they are called, I just like them :-)...

Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__

I have a really great experience with flowers this year. We bought a piece of land last year and I wanted to plant some flowers for the bees. I thought it will look like:

Sortiment letničkových směsí

but it looks like:

Plevely není nutné vždy vytrhávat, zkuste to letos jinak

I think the flowers are gone and the weed rules them all

Daniel Ebers

Seems like a legit decision .. "when will AI take over?"

Daniel Ebers

Very nice! They can grow pretty large actually and are robust.

Daniel Ebers

But hey, there is some green!
Maybe there will be colourful flowers next year ... :-)
If not I suppose there are still some animals which enjoy what is there.
Slugs for example .. the beloved slugs ... enjoy the dandelion no matter what, they do not pay much attention. They seem to eat whatever they may find.

Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__

Yeah, I hate slugs... but if they will live in this green bush and they will stay ONLY there, I'm totally ok with it. When talking about slugs, I read that there is some special kind of ducks which eat them... it could by fun

Valerie Knapp

Here is my little balcony garden in Padova, near Venice. I have peppers, basil, tomatoes, rosemary and I did have peas and zucchini but I had to take them out as the sun was too much for them!

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Liam Green

There are some amazing 'balconies' here! Its great to see so much greenery in people's lives

Daniel Ebers

Beautiful! I love it!

Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__

Ok @Daniel Ebers , I just cut a grass a little... here they are...families

Kristján Geir Mathiesen

Glæsilegt topic! Unfortunately, we don't have a balcony in this american terraced house we live in and the back yard is just a slab of concrete. But... we try to make it a bit pleasant with fake grass, garden furniture and one living flower

Daniel Ebers

Funny - the fake grass is something we added lately as well. :-)
I love the colourful flowers!

Kristján Geir Mathiesen

Fake grass is good stuff I like to see green in a garden. Thank you @Daniel Ebers

Chris Hayes_y7kaqb

living a (concrete) city like Athens, with few green spots is really awful. Flowers make your life prettier. You feel more calm (up to the point where bees and mosquitos arrive)

Chris Hayes_y7kaqb

living a (concrete) city like Athens, with few green spots is really awful. Flowers make your life prettier. You feel more calm

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