Table of contents
- Beautiful and distinctive autumn flowers
- Pure floral beauty
- Pretty autumn flowers
- Even more perennials that bloom in autumn - only for balconies and terraces
- Perfect balcony boxes and tubs
- Conclusion
Autumn flowers for the balcony and terrace that are easy to care for and will delight you for years do not come in endless quantities. Fortunately, however, there are many autumn flowers to be found among the hardy perennials bloom particularly beautifully or look particularly extravagant, these perennials are listed below presented:
Beautiful and distinctive autumn flowers
There are a few perennials that bring flowers to the balcony and terrace in autumn or into autumn:
Pure floral beauty
Among the not too numerous autumn flowers are many perennials with particularly beautiful flowers: monkshood and autumn anemone, blue and white wood asters, cushion asters and Goldhair Asters, Smooth Asters and Smooth-leaf Asters, Tatar Asters and Prairie Asters, Glacial Chamomile, Herbaceous Marigold and Herbaceous Sunflower, Lily Hostas, Torch Lily and Autumn daisies, golden cobs and coneflowers and toad lilies - they all bring many magnificent flowers, usually in several cultivars, the balcony/terrace in almost any desired color adorn. Many of these perennials grow at heights suitable for balconies, others shine in large tubs, where they grow into extraordinary eye-catchers. For a detailed list of fall-blooming varieties with botanical names and variety names, see "The Best Fall Bloomers - Hardy Perennials and More".
Pretty autumn flowers
If you think that pure beauty gets boring quickly, not only in terms of film and television starlets, but also like to create something unusual on the balcony/terrace, there are also the right autumn-blooming perennials for She:
- Anemarrhena asphodeloides, mother commemoration, Zhi Mu
- Artemisia ludoviciana, silver perennial wormwood, varieties 'Silver Queen' and 'Valerie Finnis'
- Artemisia pontica, Pontic wormwood
- Artemisia lactiflora, Chinese mugwort, varieties 'Ivory' and 'Guizho'
- Aster pansos, 'Snowflurry' Carpet Myrtle Aster
- Aster laterifolius 'Horizontalis' calico aster, varieties 'Horizontalis' and 'Prince'
- Aster universe, small-flowered aster, varieties 'Pink Star' and 'Schneegitter'
- Aster laevis x ericoides, wild smooth-leaf aster
- Calluna vulgaris 'Marlies', heather variety 'Marlies'
- Cynara scolymus, artichoke
- Helianthus salicifolius, Willow-leaved Perennial Sunflower
- Hieracium umbellatum, Umbel hawkweed
- Hosta gracilma 'Wogon', small rock hosta cultivar 'Wogon'
- Linaria vulgaris, toadflax
- Satureja montana subsp. montana, winter savory
- Saxifraga cortusifolia, Autumn Saxifrage, cultivar 'Mount Hood'
- Saxifraga fortunei, October Saxifrage, cultivar 'Rubifolia'
- Solidago aspera, Rough Goldenrod
- Solidago rugosa, Wrinkled Goldenrod, cultivar 'Fireworks'
- Spiranthes cernua, hardy bog orchid that needs the right soil
- Urtica dioica, stinging nettle
- Vernonia crinita, Arkansas mock aster
What all these perennials have in common is that they stand out from the usual uniform balcony planting, but at the same time look natural, with such a planting you feel on the city balcony or terrace as in autumn Flower garden. All of these perennials are hardy and perennial and will remain in the window box/pot for years.
They can be freed from the withered stems, but otherwise they are only cut back in spring because they use their foliage as winter protection or as a winter protection. need food reserve. Even if perennials can now be bought all year round and they can actually be planted at any time when the ground is not frozen - the best time to plant for Perennials is and will always be the autumn season, during this time specialized perennial nurseries offer the largest selection of well-developed perennials, the window boxes and tubs immediately decorate. The above-ground growth of these perennial plants is almost complete for the current season, the roots can "focus on themselves" and grow well.
Even more perennials that bloom in autumn - only for balconies and terraces
The selection of perennials for the balcony and terrace can be larger than for the garden bed: on the balcony or terrace in densely populated areas there is usually a cheaper one Microclimate than in the garden, the climate here is up to half a climate zone milder than in the surrounding area, which is not so densely built up, and the balcony and terrace are often quite sheltered at home. Therefore, you can usually dare to cultivate "only almost" hardy perennials there, a balcony box can also be equipped with an insulating or A heating mat can be placed underneath, a bucket can be wrapped in a thick, insulating layer underneath, so even perennials that are somewhat sensitive to cold freeze not:
- Anemone vitifolia, Vine-leaved Anemone, loose bushes with delicate pink flowers, tolerate temperatures down to -18°C (USDA hardiness zone 7)
- Erigeron karvinskianus, Spanish daisy, delightful small perpetual bloomer, which also only freezes from -18 °C
- Fuchsia microphylla subsp. aprica 'Dolly's Dress', small-flowered fuchsia variety, red flowers, black berry decoration, really pretty and not only popular with birds, USDA hardiness zone 7
- Gaura lindheimeri 'Siskiyou Pink', Pink Delightful Candle, flowers really bright pink between July and October but somewhat less hardy than the white-flowered varieties, needs a mulch on top for winter protection bucket soil
- Saxifraga cortusifolia, October saxifrage variety 'Rubifolia', very special small white star-shaped flowers with "tips", brown to wine-red leaves, hardy to -17.7 °C
- Sedum sieboldii, Siebold fat hen, also variegated variety 'Mediovariegatum', should only be hardy to zone 8, but has already survived -20 °C permafrost
Perfect balcony boxes and tubs
The hardy perennials free you from having to buy plants for the balcony boxes every year, saving you a lot of money and a lot of time. You could invest these financial savings in great window boxes that really make a balcony can make them look completely different from the usual ones, which are a bit squeaky orange plastic behemoths. Balcony boxes are available in all sorts of materials, in all sorts of sizes and in all sorts of colours, so it should be easy to find the one that suits your interior. If you buy balcony boxes with water storage (try one first, not all systems really work well), you might also save paying the helpful person who has been watering while on vacation came. You don't want to save paying the helpful person because they urgently need to earn a few euros? Think for a moment, you'll find a lot of work that you've actually wanted done for a very long time.
You could use the time saved to put together good potting soil for the balcony boxes. It's best not to buy a substrate, that's just substrate and not soil, and you have to have very good quality Buy (expensive) substrate so that it does not compact very quickly, a nightmare for everyone Plant. Instead, you could get real soil, from your own garden or from a friend's garden, from the nearest building yard (ask about the absence of pollutants and have them guaranteed) or from the public compost of the Community. This can then be loosened by mixing in sand or other mineral substances and using mature Compost or other nutrient-containing organic substances can be enriched, depending on the needs of each Plant.
This also applies to plant pots, and it is also worth thinking about the size of a pot. Of course it has to fit the terrace, but in principle plants would grow best if they have 1 liter of pot volume per gram of dried plant biomass. That's a lot, if you think away the 80, 90% water of a magnificent perennial, you will quickly have 100 g of dry herb left, that would be a 100 liter bucket. However, this optimum does not have to be the case, it would not even be desirable for pot culture, because the plant then grows as in nature would first form powerful roots and start growing quite late in the upper area would. If the root does not get all conceivable freedom, it tends to start in the upper area, but with perennial plants (some perennials such as Christmas roses and daisies live for decades) a fairly large plant pot can already ensure good development of the roots and thus a splendid overall development of the plant favor.
Large buckets on the terrace also expand your options: you can have different perennials in one bucket arrange, more soil volume does not necessarily make roots grow in width, but they also stretch out more the depth. Of course, you shouldn't place several flat-rooters next to each other, which would prefer to root through a pot the size of a terrace in a 10 cm layer of soil. Rather, you should combine deep rooting perennials with medium deep rooting perennials and top them off put a flat root that is happy to spread on the surface of the earth, so everyone can benefit from their large one Bucket. If you are aiming for design with a "garden-like effect" - calming, relaxing, as much as possible mood-enhancing, blooming greenery - you should then make sure that you use balcony boxes/planters that are as similar as possible in terms of effect, color and material.
Conclusion
With the blooming autumn perennials, you can easily transform the balcony and terrace into small blooming gardens that with a careful selection of the plant containers can be just as relaxing and pleasing as a real flower garden. However, the balcony and terrace garden does not always have to remain calming and relaxing, balcony boxes and tubs can also be used from time to time be decorated really conspicuously, ideas for autumn and Christmas decorations can be found in other articles about autumn, winter, balconies and Terrace.
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