Plants
10 Indoor Plants for Outdoor Balcony Gardens
You may have an awning, tall building next door, trees or some other object that blocks sun from hitting your balcony. It’s unfortunate, but many apartment and condo dwellers have to adapt to growing plants on dark balconies. If you have a dark balcony space, your container plant choices are limited, but you still can have a balcony garden. The trick for shady or dark balconies is to use indoor plants outdoors. Create a lush balcony container garden consisting of indoor plants.
Aloe Vera Pups
My aloe vera got knocked over and the babies fell off with no roots. Is there a way to grow the babies with no root system?
A Flower for Shade: Bush Lily
A lot of balcony gardens don’t get the sun that’s necessary for the more popular flowers and high-light vegetables. But that doesn’t mean flowers can’t be kept on these balconies. Shade-loving plants also produce flowers. A great shade-loving container plant is the bush lily (aka kaffir lily), which has orange, red or yellow flowers that resemble geranium flowers. This flower from southern Africa can grow to about 18 inches tall and live for more than 20 years.
5 Great Plants for Shade
Have a shady garden site? A lot of us who live in apartments have shady apartment gardens because of trees, buildings or awnings that block light. While plants for sun won’t grow in our gardens, there are many plants for shade that we can grow. You just have to know how to successfully plant a container garden in the shade, and you too can have a beautiful lush garden. Don’t envy sunny garden plots: Try these 5 great plants for shade.
Tips for Growing Orchid Flowers
Orchids are beautiful flowers that you can grow in indoor gardens. Their blooms can last up to four months and come in all colors and sizes. Easy orchid varieties can be found for just a few dollars at your local garden shop. When starting off with orchid flowers, begin with a less expensive variety, and then move on to the more delicate and more interesting specimens. If you follow the following steps, you should be successful with your first orchid flower.
