Flower garden on your balcony can become a sea of colors and flavors. If you choose undemanding plant and to follow some uncomplicated rules to care for flowering balcony almost do not have to.
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For 30 minutes, you can:
- Wash floral container, put it in the drainage layer and about a third covered with soil.
- Release the two containers of flowers and the old land fill them with fresh potting soil, plant new flowers and water them.
A wise choice of plants
Although most plants will beautify your balcony just one season to the purchase of planting material should be approached with great responsibility. Plants should be healthy, well-developed, compact and with lots of buds.
In one container well combined creeping plants, tall form, and flowers growing in a dense compact shrub. It is important to take into account the color of the flowers of plants - combining their contrasting or nyuansnomu principle. Red, orange and yellow tones - warm, radiant. Cold blue and blue colors visually enlarge the space and have a refreshing impact. Pastel colors create a romantic but lively atmosphere. White goes well with all the others. In addition, white flowers liven up the dark corners of the balcony and make them lighter.
competent care
To create a flower bed the balcony will have to make some effort, but following a few useful rules, they can be reduced to a minimum. First of all, need regular watering and fertilizing -they will protect the plants from wilting and ensure their normal development and long flowering.
Save time and energy to help you watering flowers drip irrigation system, humectants pellets and the water absorbing mats that are put containers flowers. With the same purpose, you can use decorative glass beads and with long thin tubes. The ball is filled with water, a tube stuck into the ground and its moisture oozing out slowly begins to moisten the substrate.
Increase the intervals between the dressing plant to help you long-acting fertilizer produced in the form of sticks or pellets.
Another tedious task - removing wilted flowers. To spend less time on it, landed on the balcony plants which withered flowers fall on their own. Palm in this respect belongs to Veronica Chamaedrys, Bacopa, Scaevola, ampelnye petunias, impatiens and Calibrachoa.
Diascia and series ferulolistnaya like pruning: it stimulates the growth and re-flowering plants. Regular removal of faded flowers require verbena, geranium and many argirangemum bushy - it allows the plants to keep the decorative and prolongs their flowering.
Landed on the balcony ampelnye Pelargonium, Bacopa and other plants on their own discharging wilted flowers, you will save 40-60 minutes per week for putting in order of each container.
At the beginning of the season to make the substrate fertilizer of prolonged action. They are produced in the form of pellets, introduced into the soil mixture, or rods, driven into the ground. Re-fertilizing the plants need only a few months.
Add a substrate of vermiculite or perlite pellets capable of retaining large amounts of water (instead of them into the soil can be made water-retaining gel). This will allow you, even in the hot summer watering the plants only once every 2-3 days and save on watering up to 20 hours per season.
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