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- Planting and cultivating succulents properly on the balcony - that's how it works
- Full sunshine is reserved for succulents
- Simply planting and cultivating succulents - that's how it works
- Tips
Most succulents feel well in the sun
Planting and cultivating succulents properly on the balcony - that's how it works
With striking shapes and picturesque flowers, succulents impressively stage themselves in trays, troughs and flower boxes on the balcony. Although their reputation precludes their unrivaled ease, we must not leave them alone. Read here what to look out for when planting and caring.
Full sunshine is reserved for succulents
Most succulents come from the sun-drenched, hot regions of this earth. Consequently, they are the ideal occupation to green on the balcony full sun locations. Where other balcony plants fade in the summer under full sunshine, cacti, house wort, wolf milk plants and fat hens run into the floral high form. On the other hand, drought specialists should be protected from continuous rain, as in the rain shadow of a house wall or under a roof projection.
Simply planting and cultivating succulents - that's how it works
Please choose a planter that has a bottom opening as drainage. Spread a 2 cm thick drainage of expanded clay or potsherds over it. Use special cactus or succulent earth as substrate. In commercial, nutrient-rich potting soil the exotic survival artists breathe their lives out within a short time. How to expertly cultivate your succulents on the balcony:
When temperatures fall in the fall, clean up your succulents. This also applies to hardy species, as they lose their frost hardness in the small substrate volume of pot and flower box. With a few exceptions, the exotic plants want to rest in winter. A bright, frost-free winter quarters is therefore ideal. From October to February you will completely stop the nutrient supply. The water supply is reduced to a minimum by pouring in sips, so that the root ball does not dry out.
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Her succulent houseplants like to spend the summer on the sunny, warm balcony. Cacti, agaves, money trees and other representative species thrive all the more splendidly, the more fresh air and mild sunshine they can refuel from May to September.