Normandy Poppies

Poppies from blog "my french country home"

sometimes I wish I had more then a balcony to work with!

Barb's Boxes

Here are some pics sent by my friend Barb. I thought it would be fun to include some other Brooklyn gardeners here. I can't figure out how to save them...they don't want to save!!! So they are a different size.

 



Can't decide

Sometimes I love this grouping and sometimes I don't. I did it for the front of the complex to go with the brick. I didn't want anything too splashy. It's lower down in front of our door not our balcony. I can't decide whether it is too brown and dreary or whether it is muted and soothing. Maybe I'll like it better when the nasturtiums are blooming.

 

 

 

Coleus, Nasturtiums, Geraniums, Sedum, Creeping Jenny



Plucked and Stuck

I love breaking off pieces of my sedum and portulacas and just sticking them into bare soil. It's fun to watch them grow and a cheap, cheap, cheap way to fill up your containers. The Ganzania were purchased. Everything else was plucked and stuck. Can't wait to see this in September!

 



 

Ganzania, Creeping Jenny, Sedum, Dianthus

 

 

 

Besides ganzania another new flower for me this year is coreopsis. I am hoping they come back next year - they are light and airy, perfect to keep terrace claustrophobia at bay.

 

 



 

Coreopsis

 

 

And here they are from another view.

 

 

 

 

And just in case you are interested in seeing what is in that corner that has been cut off...here you go!

 

 





 

 

I didn't plant enough pansies!

Last year I went to Home Depot and went nuts buying pansies. I just scooped up huge flats of them, they were cheap and they make me so happy. For some reason, this year I did not indulge this pansy passion. And now I regret it. It's too late to plant pansies. I miss their sunny faces. So I am posting this picture from last year.

 

Pansies





Timing

Just waiting for my roses to open...I want to see all these flowers together. I fear that the dianthus will fade before the roses pop...Oh well, just an excuse to go buy some geraniums to replace the pink!

 

 

 

Scaveola, Dianthus, Portulaca, Starry Night Rose



Preventing Claustrophobia

With a tiny balcony it is important not to feel too closed in. Last year I had spectacular window boxes filled with cascading scaveola and jolly hot pink geraniums. But when I sat down out there I was staring straight into this wall of flowers. There was no sense of space or a horizon. This year I have many fewer window boxes draped over the edge of the balcony and I am sticking to whites with the one I have. I have them blocking the ugly view...the pretty view just has a pot of strawberries to peer through. Fresher, calmer, cooler....

 

Bacopa, Creeping Jenny, White Geraniums, Violas