Hanging plants for the sunny balcony

Balcony plants enchant with their lush flowers. For the sunny balcony there is a large selection of hanging plants in various colors for traffic lights and balcony boxes, which usually bloom until the first frost.

Classic: hanging geraniums

There are hanging geraniums (Pelargonium peltatum) with single, semi-double and double flowers. In contrast to their upright growing sisters, the flowers are smaller, but hanging geraniums develop even more. Regular trimming is not necessary, especially with single-flowered varieties.

Since the hanging plants are on sunny balconies in the blazing sun, the plants are very thirsty. On extremely hot summer days, it may be necessary to water the hanging geraniums in the morning and in the evening. Make sure, however, that the substrate has dried slightly before each watering process, because the hanging plants cannot tolerate waterlogging. In addition, you shouldn't skimp on fertilizing. It is ideal if you give the flowering geraniums a portion of fertilizer every week.

Royal Dark Red

• Flower: semi-double
• Flowering period: May to October
• Flower color: deep, bright dark red
• Overhang: up to 50 centimeters

Tyrolean hillside geraniums

• Flowering: simple
• Flowering period: April to October
• Flower color: pink, red, white
• Overhang: 150 centimeters

Ville de Dresden

• Flowering: simple
• Flowering period: May to October
• Flower color: white
• particularly wind and weatherproof
• Overhang: up to 90 centimeters

Ville de Paris

• Flowering: simple
• Flowering period: May to October
• Flower color: pink, red
• particularly wind and weatherproof
• Overhang: up to 90 centimeters

White Glacier

• Flowering: simple
• Flowering period: May to October
• Flower color: snow white with deep red markings
• Overhang: 70 centimeters

Classic: hanging petunias

Hanging petunias (Petunia hybrids) are particularly heat-tolerant, but cannot withstand long periods of drought. Therefore, you should ensure that you have an abundant supply of water. For a lush display of flowers, fertilize the hanging plants for the balcony once a week and snap off withered parts of the plants as far as possible.

AlpeTunia series

• large funnel-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: May to October
• intense flower colors, very good long-distance effect
• Overhang: up to 100 centimeters

BeautiCal series (Petunia x Calibrachoa)

• large funnel-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: mid-April to October
• Flower color: bright and shimmering shades
• Overhang: up to 50 centimeters
• high weather tolerance (rain and weather resistant)
• Watering: regularly
• Fertilizing: once or twice a week with liquid compound fertilizer

Note: BeautiCal series is a cross between petunias and magic bells. It has no sticky sheets.

Mini Vista series

• small funnel-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: May to October
• intense flower colors
• Overhang: up to 50 centimeters
• cope well with longer periods of rain

Sky Series (Sky Family)

• small funnel-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: May to October
• white speckles ("stars in the night sky")
• Overhang: up to 60 centimeters
• self cleaning

Surfinia series (Petunia x atkinsiana)

• large funnel-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: May / June to October
• intense flower colors
• Overhang: up to 100 centimeters
• tolerates rain far better than other petunias

Veranda series

• medium-sized funnel-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: May to October
• Flower color: one, two or three colored
• Growth habit: bushy, rounded
• Overhang: up to 70 centimeters

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Blue Mauritius (Convolvulus sabatius)

• Overhang: 50 to 100 centimeters
• funnel-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: May to September / October
• Flower color: white, blue, lavender, lavender
• Watering: needs a lot of water
• Fertilizing: once a week
• Cleaning out: necessary

Blue Daisy (Brachyscome iberidifolia)

• Overhang: up to 60 centimeters
• margertite-like flowers
• Flowering period: April to September
• Flower color: white, pink, purple (lavender), blue
• Watering: regularly
• Fertilizing: every two weeks
• Cleaning out: necessary

Blue fan flower (Scaevola aemula)

• Overhang: 40 to 70 centimeters
• Flower: asymmetrical, fan-like, semicircular
• Flowering period: May to October
• Flower color: white, pink, blue
• Watering: needs a lot of water
• Fertilizing: every two weeks
• self cleaning

Triple flower (bougainvillea)

• Overhang: up to 120 centimeters
• Flower: funnel-shaped, star-shaped
• Flowering period: May to October
• Flower color: purple
• Watering: regularly
• Fertilizing: every two weeks
• Cleaning out: recommended

Hanging verbena (Verbena x hybrida)

• Overhang: up to 50 centimeters
• plate-like flower spikes
• Flowering period: April to October
• Flower color: white, pink, red, purple, also colorful
• Location: tolerate blazing sun, great heat, wind and rain
• Watering: regularly, never let dry out completely
• Fertilizing: once a week
• Cleaning out: necessary

Hussar button (Sanvitalia procumbens)

• Overhang: up to 30 centimeters
• small, radial flowers
• Flowering period: May to October
• Flower color: yellow
• Location: tolerates partial shade, defies wind and rain
• Watering: regularly and sufficiently
• Fertilize: every one to two weeks
• hanging varieties: starbini, aztec gold

Note: The hussar button is self-cleaning.

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Indian Mint (Satureja douglasii)

• Other names: hanging mint, hanging savory, yerba buena
• Overhang: up to 250 centimeters, on average 150 centimeters
• Leaves: light green, rounded
• small, inconspicuous, white flowers from May to October
• Watering: regularly, slowly

Note: The name "Indian Mint" goes back to the mint-like smell of the leaves.

Jasmine Nightshade (Solanum jasminoides)

• Overhang: up to one meter
• star-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: April to November
• Flower color: snow white
• Watering: high water requirement, daily in summer
• Fertilizing: once a week
• Cleaning out: not necessary

Note: The summer jasmine is better suited for the hanging basket than for the balcony box, as it often displaces its neighbors there.

Purslane florets (Portulaca grandiflora)

• Overhang: up to 50 centimeters
• cupped flowers
• Flowering period: May to September
• Flower color: white, yellow, orange, pink, red
• Watering: only needs a little water
• Fertilize: every four weeks
• Cleaning out: necessary

Note: The purslane only opens its flowers when the sun is shining.

Black-eyed Susan (Thunbergia alata)

• Overhang: up to 150 centimeters
• Funnel-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: June to October
• Flower color: white, yellow, orange, pink, red
• Watering: do not let it dry out
• Fertilizing: every two weeks
• Cleaning out: necessary

Magic bells (Calibrachoa x hybrida)

As with the petunias, the selection of magic bells is almost endless. Since these popular hanging plants for the balcony are also available standing growing varieties, you should look carefully at the label when buying.

• Overhang: 30 to 50 centimeters
• small funnel-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: April to October
• Flower color: almost all colors, also multicolored
• tolerates wind and rain
• Watering: regularly
• Fertilize: every four weeks
• self cleaning

Two-toothed tooth (Bidens ferulifolia)

• Overhang: 50 to 80 centimeters
• Flower: many small star-shaped flowers
• Flowering period: April / May to October
• Flower color: yellow, orange, multicolored (yellow and orange shades in one flower)
• Watering: regularly
• Fertilizing: once a week
• Cleaning out: recommended

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