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- How to make a beautiful flower box on the north side
- Cool shadow is her lifeblood - flowers and perennials for the north side
- Green and structural plants - perfect accompaniment for flowering balcony plants
- Tips
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How to make a beautiful flower box on the north side
Wake your dreary, lifeless balcony on the north side of the Sleeping Beauty sleep. The selection of flowering and green ornamental plants for low-light locations is greater than you think. Which flowers, perennials and grasses decorate a shady flower box, can be found here.
Cool shadow is her lifeblood - flowers and perennials for the north side
For a life on the cool, shady north side special qualities are needed. The following flowers and perennials show their beautiful side only when they are spared from blazing sun:
In the creatively designed flower box fuchsias, begonias and impatiens take over the function of a Leitpflanze. For a lush appearance, combine smaller and elegant hanging plants. Ideal candidates are male Litter (Lobelia erinus), Elfensporn (Diascia), Mini-Petunia (Calibrachoa) and Blue Daisies (Brachyscome multifida).
Green and structural plants - perfect accompaniment for flowering balcony plants
With leaf decoration plants you round off the creative planting in the balcony box for the north side elegantly. The following beauties convince with decorative colored leaves or attractive leaf structures that consoled over the inconspicuous flowers:
Shadow-friendly ornamental grasses should not be missed in the imaginative planting plan. Recommended are small species and varieties that blend harmoniously into the floral overall picture. Creeping Bouquet Grass (Agrostis stolonifera), Shadow Sedge (Carex umbrosa) and White Cattle Lime (Luzula nivea) are just three examples from a wide range of grasses for the balcony box with a northerly orientation.
Tips
The less light the north side of the house brightens, the harder the plant selection will turn out. For a flower box in the shade are mainly white flowering plants. White reflects even the slightest amount of light so that vital photosynthesis can take place.