This season add green touch to your balcony. Wondering what are we talking about? Well, this season drape up your balcony with vertical gardens, hand-painted planters and light weight furniture. Here are some tips that you need to consider:
The monsoon may have stopped now, but when it rains in the city, it pours. This is the best time to connect with your home garden and turn it into a green haven and bring a bit of outdoors to your living room through a small hanging garden in a corner of the house or transform your balcony space into a mint garden.
Renowned interior designer, Asha Khetan, founder and curated online market place, House of Things, says that the monsoon is apt time for urbanites and city dwellers to welcome a spot of greenery to their homes. A splash of green adds vivacity to the life and everything around it.
How to give your balcony a green update?
Giving balcony a green update can easily turn into fun activity and let you to indulge in some DIY work. Colorful and hand painted pots and kettles with planters along with balcony adds a touch of kitsch, whereas mason jar can double up the fun. Shweta Mewara, co-founder of eminent online furniture store, Gulmohar Lane says, Vertical Gardens are perfect way to make a small balcony look green while still leaving a large space to relax and stretch on your favorite armchairs. Accentuate the balcony with some over sized cushions to and mix it. However, keep the overall look minimal and green. Over cluttered balconies are tedious to clean, as these areas remain exposed every time. Also, use light-weight, movable furniture that can be easily shifted indoors during a down pour.
Select the right plants
It is best to find out what works the best and hat doesn’t before setting a balcony and revamping it. Selecting plants that adapt to temperature is important. the owner of renowned store, the Lifestyle Temple says that spider lilies and zephyranthes are the best because they are easy to cultivate and grow in almost any kind of soil. Jasmine is an ornamental plant with medicinal benefits that blooms throughout the year when planted during the raining season. Cosmos is a perennial plant and can be easily grown indoors and in gardens too. Rajanigandha blooms during monsoon till December.
You can even add tropical hedges that are easy to grow and are a beautiful sight when grown fully. Khetan, eminent interior designer gives vote to Indian herbs like lemongrass, coriander and curry leaves. Dwarf varieties of citrus are great choices for home gardener as they provide green foliage and are easily adaptable to the container culture too.