Design
DIY Bamboo Trellis
Trellises are not expensive balcony garden design materials to purchase, but cheaper trellises are not organic and often are not pleasing to the eye. There are many more expensive trellises that are beautifully intricate, but you may want to save a few bucks and make your own trellis with an organic feel. To read about the container plants that you can grow up trellises, read "Balcony Container Gardening Design: Using Climbing Plants."
How to Make a Cheap Plant Shelf
The ultimate downside to having a balcony container garden is the small space to work with. There are many ways you can maximize your balcony garden space, and one great way is to keep container plants on shelves. It's not only healthier for the plants, it also allows you to keep more plants and enjoy your balcony garden even more!
Apartment Garden Lighting Solutions
In a small, intimate space like a balcony garden, lighting plays an important role in garden design. If you are one of the few lucky apartment dwellers who have an electrical outlet outside, then you have many choices for lighting. All-white Christmas lighting, either large or small bulbs, give a romantic feeling to a balcony garden. Even flexible LED strip lighting is an attractive option.
Decorating the Balcony for Christmas
Just because you don’t have a yard to decorate with animatronic light-up deer and blow-up snowmen doesn’t mean you can’t decorate your apartment garden for Christmas. Apartment-dwellers with balcony gardens can use the following ideas for making their balconies festive during Christmas time.
3 DIY Mini Greenhouses
You can buy a mini greenhouse at your local garden shop or even at an IKEA store, but if you just want to start some seeds or grow small but delicate container plants, choose one of these DIY mini greenhouses that you can make yourself.
