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Balcony Gardens, container gardening, Extention Tubes, Flower Photography, flowering vines. Black Elephant Ear, Geraniums, Nasturiums, OLLA'S Water Conservation System
I do not really have much to write about today, just wanted to show off my balcony garden. I will let the pictures do the talking for the most part. I am just happy to have this little slice of heaven right outside my kitchen door.
Nasturtium Blossoms with an extension tube on, should have used the tripod but was too lazy this morning.
These are the nasturtiums planted in the container with the Olla watering system, everything planted with this Olla is huge and it is only the end of May!
The picture above shows all the Black Eyed Susan vines, passion flower vine, and a cardinal vine, I will admit that I am having a problem with a Grackle bird wanting to nip the tops out of my vines and salvias for nesting materials. though he/she has helped the passion flower vine by nipping the top 4” out, it now has 8 new lateral vines shooting up at each leaf juncture. I would rather he/she leave that for me to decide. so I will be purchasing several rubber snake to place strategically around to entertain the Grackle.
Most of my geraniums in full bloom, they will be rewarded with some Osmocote time release, and Super Bloom fertilizers as soon as I can get to Lowes for them.
My Phaelenopsis orchids, this one did not initiate buds until the end of winter, and in time to be set outside where he seems to love the climate, all the other three, suffered from bud blast, due to lack of humidity over the winter and almost bloomed and then dropped them all. I need to get a humidifier for the apartment next winter. I am hoping to do a step by step post on the repotting and root trimming of the 3 orchids not in bloom, very soon. These geraniums seem to love the bottom shelf of the orchid stand.
Heritage Basket Studio 
And you do a great job doing it!
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Very beautiful, Mitch! I have a little herb garden on my counter because I do not have a balcony. I am missing my flower beds this year.
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So sad to hear you do not have a place for flower beds or a balcony/deck for containers, deed I don’t know how I survived those two years without anything.
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Mitchell, you do not have a green thumb !!! You have green hands ! Lovely, and so fun to see your “garden “.
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You are just too sweet for words Jan! 🙂 My balcony is my Oasis, my retreat, my get a way, I love working in it, trying new things, also love the vertical space now. there is only one way to go and that up. I always look forward to a comment from you Jan! 🙂
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Beautiful as always! But is there any room for you on your deck? Let me know about chairs so I can plan on driving down.
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This balcony array is lovely, Mitchell.
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Well Thank you so much Tish! Isn’t amazing how much we gardener’s working with limited space try to pack in? I loved you post on To and From the Allotment – Finding a Beautiful Blue! I wish in the US they were allotment oriented I would love to have an allotment to plant, you are lucky Tish! 🙂
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Yes, I am lucky. We have odd and rather aged by-laws relating to allotments in England. They seemed to have originated with railway workers, who could demand gardens from the Railways Company they worked for. Certainly our allotments were originally railway workers’ plots, though they’re now owned by a local landowner. Ones in London though are being grabbed by developers, and people are losing the gardens they have loved and worked on for years. All very sad. The owner of ours would like to build on it too, which is a little unsettling.
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Oh how Sad Tish, you would think as garden oriented as England is there would be some programs to save the allotments! People in the cities are probably happier people when they have a little bit of earth to go and play and work in, getting in the soil is a real stress reliever!
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Yes, indeed. The city gardens are so important to people. But here, as with you, power and money win when it comes to building developments.
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Beautiful flowers!
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Hi Carolyn you know me, I have got to have my flowers, I may not have a yard and garden but I try to create as much of one wherever I can. ! 🙂
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