Calling all balcony gardeners
Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Amy Davis
Are you a balcony gardener? A high-rise gardener? A porch gardener?
Fern, who blogs at Life on a Balcony, is writing a book about balcony gardening, and she is looking for pictures and stories from different parts of the country, including from us here in the Mid-Atlantic.
She has created a Facebook page for her book, My Balcony, My Garden, and a Flickr group, where you can post pictures.
But Fern is asking for a little more than pictures: a description of where you live, details of how the weather and the sunlight impact your apartment or condo garden, as well as other issues you deal with.
So, Baltimore balcony gardeners, get on it! We have to represent!
Comments
Live in condo townhouse with a small fenced shade garden with 3 beds surrounding a concrete pad. One bed is filled with ferns (Autumn, Christmas, & Japanese) & 2 oak leaf hydrangeas, that I trimmed to look like small trees, when they got too big for the bed. The hydrangeas really look great & quite a conversation piece. Everyone ask what kind of beautiful trees they are.
The 2 other beds are filled with potted hostas. They die down in fall & continue to return each spring. Ever other yr. I divide them & repot, thus my pots continue to increase.
Several iron & wicker plant stands hold pots with impatients or various varieties of coleous.
The fences are covered with antique framed mirrors that I pick up at flea markets. These also contain impatients or coleous. One more item in this funky shade garden, also from flea mkt. ---- a concrete teddy holding a pot that I plant with an annual.
Irene, sounds to me like you should take some pictures and send them in! To Life on a Balcony and to Garden Variety!-- Susan .
Posted by: Irene Gale | August 28, 2010 7:38 PM