Creating a Container Cut Flower Garden on Your Balcony Dakoa

A cut flower garden isn’t only for those with backyards. In fact, you can enjoy a beautiful container garden of fresh flowers waiting for a vase right on your apartment or condo balcony.

Several varieties of popular cut flower plants grow very well in containers.

Follow these six steps, and you will be creating your own cut flower arrangements in just a few months.

6 Simple Steps to Have Your Own Balcony Container Flower Garden

Step 1: Pick out your preferred beauty.

The first thing you need to do is decide what type of flowers you want to grow. A list of popular cut flower plants that grow well in containers is provided below.

Try to include both annuals and perennials, so you will have blooms for an extended time.

Step 2: Eye up your space.

Take a look at your balcony and figure out how much space you have available for your garden.

Keep in mind when figuring out your garden layout that you will want to give your plants the largest container possible for the space you have available.

Knowing the amount of space you have available, you can get an idea of how many containers will fit in your space and how many plants you will need.

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Step 3: To buy or to plant?

You have two options for acquiring the plants for your garden. You can buy plants from a nursery, or you can start your plants from seed.

Keep in mind though that you will need to start your seeds at least 6-8 weeks before spring planting time. Now that you have a list of plants you want to grow and an idea of how many containers and plants you need, it’s time to head to the nursery for your plants and supplies.

Choose the containers that you want for your garden. You will also need enough soil to fill each container, small pebbles for drainage in each container, compost, slow release fertilizer and enough mulch to cover your soil.

When you are picking out your plants, be sure each variety you choose has a care instruction tag with it. Having this information handy will make caring for your plants a lot easier.

If you have chosen plants that will have tall flowers, you might consider picking up some plant supports for those plants.

Step 4: Get yourself ready to go!

Take all of your plants and supplies out onto your patio and place a layer of small pebbles on the bottom of each container, then add soil, slow release fertilizer and compost to each container and mix well.

Be sure to only fill the containers 3/4 full to allow space to add your plants and top off the soil and add a layer of mulch to your containers.

When planting your containers, it is recommended to give each type of flower its own container. Doing this will extend the amount of time you will have blooms.

You can also plant varieties that bloom at different times of the season in the same container, so you will always have something in your container that is blooming.

Once you have placed your plants into the containers, place soil around each plant, then water and apply a layer of mulch around each plant to help retain moisture.

Step 5: Keeping vases full takes hard work!

You will need to do regular maintenance on your garden to keep your plants blooming well. This is where the care instruction tags come in handy, they will provide you with tips on the proper care for the best blooms.

You will need to make sure your plants are watered regularly. Water stressed plants will produce fewer and smaller blooms.

You also need to remove any dead blooms from your plants. This will encourage your plant to make more blooms.

Step 6: Cut them, arrange them and enjoy them.

When your plants are blooming, and you can start harvesting the blooms, always do your cutting early in the morning or in the evening.

Always avoid harvesting in the heat of the day.

Take a bucket of water out with you when you harvest, so you can place the blooms directly into the water after cutting.

Cut the stems on a slant and remove any leaves that will be below the water surface in your vase. Be sure to not remove all the blooms at once, space your cuttings, so your plants will continue to bloom.

Try to cut the flowers, so you have some that have not bloomed, some that are just starting to bloom and some that have bloomed. Doing this will help your arrangements last longer.

Consider adding a crushed aspirin or a cut flower food to the water in your vases to extend the life of your arrangements.