How to turn your balcony into a garden

You've just upgraded your house, from a humble flat to a posh condominium, congratulations! Besides being excited for the upgrade and more facilities, there’s one more that’s worth to be excited for – the balcony. While many finds that the balcony of their condominium seems to be giving them additional chores to clean during the weekends. We find it otherwise, we are more excited to turn the balcony into a garden. Not only it adds to the greenery to the house, it acts as the air purifier and improves the air of your house. Let’ see how you can transform your balcony into a garden.

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1. Check the weight bearing of your balcony

Right before you start buying any heavy, concrete pots or huge containers, do check if your balcony can bear the weight. It is advisable to check with your property management or landlord on the weight load before placing or arranging any heavy weight gardening items.

2. Explore vertical garden

Vertical garden has become trendy recently for high-rise buildings. You could easily have spotted on some of the famous skyscrapers. Some balconies are small that makes it difficult to build a proper garden, consider the vertical garden options. You can build a vertical garden by purchasing a mountable hanging gardens or using plumbing pipe for the plants to crawl over or you can build a shelving system from recycled items. Perfect solution for your lack of space on your balcony.

3. Use your gardening equipment as decorator items

The issue with small balcony is storage, perhaps you can arrange your gardening equipment as though for display and attractive. Watering can looks great for display especially the metal ones, it looks good to be display along with the potted plants and small spades. You can utilize the vertical space by hanging clippers and spray water bottles on to the mounted peg board on the wall. Utilizing the vertical space save you from keeping bulky storage boxes that is taking up too much space for such a limited area.

4. Do up a balcony lawn

One of the downside of staying in condominium is you can't have your own lawn. Don’t worry, there are plentiful of options available for condominium or HDB residents. Firstly, you can buy a fake grass or known as synthetic lawn tiles that looks real. The synthetic lawn tiles are easy to manage, cost-effective way to enjoy your balcony lawn. Besides, you can also consider a container lawn which you can lay on specialised rubber that provides drainage for seeded balcony grass. But before deciding on any of the lawn suggested, do seek some advices from your local hardware store which they will be able to help you better.

5. Container garden

To increase your interest for your balcony garden plants, you can upcycling and mixing up with pots of your choice. You can use almost anything as a pot for your plants but have to make sure that there are ample drainage so your plants don’t drown. Contain your herbs by using vintage apple crates or any fruit crates, all you need is to drilled holes into the bottoms. Then you can filled up the crates with jars, buckets, old drink containers and tin can which lift up your balcony into vintage-looking balcony garden. 

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6. Cosy seating

It’s chilled to sip a cup of coffee with heaty arrangement. Get yourself few furniture like outdoor sofa or plastic chairs to make it more exciting. Besides, add cushions to one or two layout. When doing some gardening at your balcony, you can easily find a spot for yourself and get cosy with your balcony view.

7. Plant climbers

Get yourself some plant climbers if the condominium belongs to you. You can get it to cover the walls, ceiling, rails and others to enhance the aesthetic of your unit. You can make your house to look shady and private sanctuary as plant climbers grows fast. Usually, it needs to be trim or look after to avoid looking messy like creepy crawlers' house.

8. Balcony garden gadgets

Hurry to your local nursery and discover what offers are available for your balcony garden. With the advancement of technology, there are always new gadgets and ideas that you have never thought of. All balconies are unique and different so it requires different kind of solutions or ideas to maintain. But be sure to treasure and enjoy your balcony gardens area.