Content
- Miniature rock landscape for the home: The rock garden on the balcony
- What you need to create a mini rock garden
- Caution: Stone vessels may be too heavy
- Suitable plants for the balcony rock garden
- Tips
A chair is a particularly creative planter for the mini rock garden on the balcony
Miniature rock landscape for the home: The rock garden on the balcony
What could be better than sitting on the balcony on a balmy summer evening, sweeten the sunset with a good glass of wine and enjoy the sight of the miniature rock landscapes you have created yourself? For a lifelike designed rock garden you do not need a huge garden, a flat planter bowl on your own balcony is enough.
What you need to create a mini rock garden
If you also want to create such a mini-rock garden on your balcony, then you can go shopping with this shopping list ever in the next gardening market (if necessary there is also a hardware store with a garden department). You need:
Caution: Stone vessels may be too heavy
Of course, it will be particularly stylish if you place your mini rock garden in a planter made of stone - for example in a natural stone or concrete cast trough. Note, however, that for static reasons, such a vessel could be too heavy for the balcony. Stone troughs are very suitable for the garden or the terrace.
Suitable plants for the balcony rock garden
First of all, you should not just choose the planting of your mini-rock garden aesthetically. It is much more important to select plants according to their common needs: For example, all plants in the planter should have the same demands on location as well as nutrient and water supply. Otherwise, you have the choice in the large number of suitable perennials, grasses, tubers and bulbous plants. Due to the lack of space, take dwarfed varieties and create a lot of variety in the planter.
Suitable plant species include:
Tips
If you have selected only winter hardy plants, they can remain on the balcony with a light protection over the winter. Above all, the planter should be wrapped with a warm material, as well as the surface to be covered. The roots freeze very fast.