When summer comes to an end, you can “redecorate” on the balcony. The faded summer flowers are removed and replaced with autumn bloomers. On the one hand, flowering plants or grasses and small perennials that survive the winter are suitable for this.
Which autumn bloomers are suitable for the balcony?
Flowering plants such as chrysanthemums, heather, common heather, asters, coneflowers and pansies are suitable for autumn balcony planting. Colorful leafy plants such as Günsel, purple bells and ornamental cabbage as well as hardy grasses such as moorland pipe grass, pennisetum grass and blue fescue complete the arrangement.
Replant balcony box step by step
First you need flowers that bloom throughout the fall and some perennials with beautiful fall color. It is also important to have the right tools, good potting soil, some gravel or expanded clay for drainage and work gloves.
- Remove the old potting soil from the window boxes.
- Add a layer of expanded clay or gravel to prevent waterlogging.
- Fill the box with good potting soil. Wider and deeper specimens are better suited for autumn planting so that the plants can root well in as much soil as possible and survive the winter unscathed.
- Water the plants before planting.
- Place the plants in the container and fill the cavities with soil.
- Press the soil well and water the plants.
Since the plants only need a small amount of nutrients during the cold months, fertilizing is not necessary.
If you want, you can plant flower bulbs for spring. Is it in autumn and Quite dry in winter and needs to be watered regularly. On frosty days in winter, the flower box should be covered with fleece.
Which plants are suitable for autumn planting?
For a friendly sight, flowering plants are primarily recommended. Plants with colored foliage, with berries and grasses brighten up the overall picture excellently.
Autumn flowering plants
There is a wide variety here that has something to suit everyone.
- the chrysanthemum (a small form for the balcony)
- Erika
- the broom heather
- various asters
- low sun hat
- Autumn gentian
- Autumn Alpine violet
- Pansies
- horn violets
Colorful leafy plants and those with berry decorations
You can also choose from a wide range of colors and shapes
- the Günsel, whose leaves become even more intensely colored when it is cold
- Purple bells, with orange-yellow, green-red, dark red or purple leaves
- various colored ornamental cabbage
- yellow gold pennywort
- Mockberry
- Skimmie
- Peat Myrtle
Grasses
Grasses are hardy and brighten up the look of a balcony box very well.
- Moor pipe grass, with striped, green-creamy white leaves
- Pennisetum, with bronze, red, green or variegated leaves
- bronze sedge
- silver blue fescue
