With an imaginative combination of autumn plants and decoration, your balcony box becomes a reflection of the colorful season. Browse here for clever decoration tips to creatively showcase asters, carpet berries and other autumn beauties.
How to decorate a balcony box in autumn?
For an autumnal balcony box decoration, you can use colorful decorative pumpkins, cones, dried corn cobs, crabapples, autumnal wreaths and homemade mushroom figures. You can also create an autumnal robe out of jute ribbons, sheep's wool or garden fleece to design the flower box according to the season.
Autumn decoration from the kingdom of Mother Nature – ideas for the flower box
If you wander through fields and forests or your own garden with your eyes open, you will find a we alth of natural materials for autumn balcony box decoration. Be inspired by the following collection of ideas:
- Arrange bizarrely shaped, colorful decorative pumpkins between the balcony plants
- Collect cones from fir, pine and larch trees and place them between the plants
- Dry corn cobs, decorate with colorful ribbons and use as flower box decoration
- Harvest red and yellow crabapples and place them under wintergreen balcony plants as a splash of color
Small, autumnal wreaths can be conjured up from straw, twigs, ivy vines, roots and leaves and hung on the visible side of the flower box. It's easier with prepared blanks from the craft store, which you decorate with berries, acorns, cones and dried flowers.
Make your own autumn clothes for flower boxes - this is how it works
When the temperatures drop in autumn, we take the first fluffy sweaters out of the wardrobe. By also covering your balcony box with a cozy, warm robe, the decoration becomes a reflection of the current season. The following options interpret the decorative theme in an autumnal flair:
- Wrap jute ribbons in warm, autumnal colors around the flower box
- Alternatively, wrap the vessel in gray or brown mottled sheep's wool, wrapped with matching colored jute ribbons
- Drape green garden fleece with red, braided sisal cords around the box
If you cover the colorful autumn coat made of fleece with bubble wrap, the flower box is also winterproof. The warming film protects the root balls of the autumn plants from the first night frosts and yet remains hidden from the viewer's eyes.
Tip
Autumn time is mushroom time. You can integrate the current theme of the season into the balcony box decoration with self-made figures. This is easy to do with white modeling clay, which you shape into lifelike mushroom caps. Attached to small wooden sticks with hot glue and painted with cheerful splashes of color, the decorative mushrooms add decorative accents to the autumn and winter flower box.