An imaginative balcony design is not a question of budget. With a skilful combination of beautiful balcony plant species and original plant pots, you can conjure up an appearance that attracts everyone's attention. Let these ideas inspire you for an individual plant arrangement on your balcony.
What original ideas are there for designing balcony plants?
Creative balcony plant ideas include using unorthodox planters such as old shoes, umbrellas or wooden pallets, growing climbing plants as privacy screens and planting discarded jeans as flower pots. These ideas impress with their individuality and give every balcony a special charm.
Reinterpreting everyday objects – ideas for unorthodox planters
In the attic, in the basement or at flea markets, there are countless ideas to discover for showcasing balcony plants in a clever and unconventional way. The following suggestions demonstrate which everyday objects would like to be a flower box or bucket in their second life:
- Plant old shoes or boots with colorful succulents
- Fill an upside down umbrella with substrate to plant flowers, grasses or herbs
- Colored pots of balcony plants hanging between the steps of a ladder
- Convert wooden drawers in a shabby look into planters
Discarded zinc tubs, milk cans, washtubs and wheelbarrows from the farm enter into a congenial partnership with balcony plants to amaze every observer.
Convert annual climbing plants into privacy screens
If you don't like sitting on the display plate on your balcony, use annual climbing plants as a flower-filled privacy screen. Pre-grown on the windowsill and planted in mid-May in a box with an integrated trellis, the following sky-strikers ward off prying eyes with their dense coat of leaves and flowers:
- Black-eyed Susan (Thunbergia alata)
- Morning glories (Ipomoea)
- Sweet peas (Lathyrus)
- Mandevilla (Dipladenia)
The special advantages of annual climbing flowers are their low weight and the never-ending flowering period. Since the plants do not become woody, they are also suitable as floral lightweights for small balconies. In a sunny, warm location, the bright flowers last until the first frost.
Convert wooden pallets into a herb bed
Inventive balcony gardeners have discovered wooden pallets to create stylish flower boxes. Even a single Euro pallet is enough as the starting material for a stylish herb bed. Up to 6 plant compartments are created, which provide ideal conditions for popular balcony herbs.
Cheeky and obvious – discarded jeans as a flower pot
Are you looking for plant pots that will make a splash on the balcony? Then stop sending your worn-out jeans to the old clothing collection. This is how jeans become a cheeky flowerpot:
- Stuff a pair of colorful rubber boots with newspaper and tuck the pant legs in
- Fill jeans up to the buttocks with construction foam and place them in the desired position on the balcony
- Place a matching flower bowl with a heavy stone in the waistband
- Fix the waistband with a tension belt until the construction foam has dried after 48 hours
Stone and tension strap are removed after the drying time. Now you can plant the flower bowl as you wish. As an authentic decoration, pull a belt, colored hemp rope or cloth through the loops on the waistband.
Tip
Numerous magnificent balcony plants are cultivated as annuals, although they thrive perennial in their tropical homelands. Don't throw petunias, geraniums and other summer beauties into the compost in the fall. If put away in good time and cut back to 15 cm, the flowers will overwinter without any problems in the frost-free cellar.
