Autumn decoration & winter decoration for balcony and terrace

If the summer flowers have faded (or were not planted at all due to lack of time), you could now Plant autumn on the balcony and terrace in such a way that you have a base that will last for years with little care create. Which can then be redecorated again and again with little effort, ideas for autumn decoration and winter decoration are included:

The basis: autumn and winter planting for the balcony and terrace

An abundance of perennials bloom well into winter, anemones and asters, Christmas roses and chrysanthemums, monkshood and sedum, fuchsias and daisies, Goldenrod and heather, fall daisies and bluebells, primroses, sunflowers and saxifrage all have varieties to offer until late in the fall bloom into it and which are presented in the other articles about autumn planting for balconies and terraces with precise details of the autumn-blooming cultivars become. These flowers not only bloom in the classic fall colors, but in almost every color imaginable, including the color that defines your living room decor. For a low-maintenance basic planting, you could pick a variety in colors that harmonize with your living room decor. Or contrast, or your living space decor could use some colorful additions, then choose a plant that has flowering cultivars of many different colors. You can then find out exactly what this plant needs and provide it with the perfect environment and care. Which never gets super complicated when there is something to do is to do the same thing on the whole balcony. Such work quickly becomes automatic and can be completed in welcome pauses for thought. Whether the basic planting was designed in one color throughout, a color gradient or colorful contrasting colors planted - the right decoration makes this base classy or romantic, something unusual or really flashy works:

Special autumn decorations and winter decorations

The standard autumn decorations are varied and available from August at the latest, while the winter decorations are just as varied and available from September at the latest. Always full of the latest trends, of course, after all it's all about selling the trend items. If you search for autumn decorations on a video platform on the net, you will find 18,700 videos presenting the decorative trend items of the year. For this (possibly forbidden surreptitious) advertising, the praisers get money, you pay for this advertising when you buy the article. There are even trade fairs for the decorative trend items of the year, then you will find these trend items in the Hardware store and in the flower discounter and in the bargain market, you don't need an extra article about that read; and if the trend articles of the season were not indispensable and there were not new ones every season, could you come up with the idea of ​​creating a sustainable decoration that will last you for many years pleases.

You can anyway, see below, and if you don't have time for ideas, you can also go other ways when buying your decorative items than buying the "mass production of the season":

• Buy clear hollow polystyrene spheres at the hobby shop
• With a diameter of 10 cm, 50 pieces cost around €50, but you don't get many decorative trend items for that
• They can be filled with any small item that looks beautiful, from autumn leaves to dried flowers
• Around Christmas they get filled with glitter and all those little things to hang on the Christmas tree
• You can distribute these balls anywhere on the balcony or terrace, even in the flower pots
• The balls also have a hanger
• You can tie autumnal wreaths from Pedding tube
• To do this, you can weave a few small baskets/bowls
• So high that simple grave candles fit into it
• They shimmer through and protect the flame, a quick and elegant decoration

The word count of an article is limited, the possibilities are endless: look around your locality, in small galleries, at markets, in farm or other small shops there is decoration away from the Mainstream; Look at the last pages of the search engine results first if you are looking for handicrafts, home accessories, decoration related to handmade, handmade, unique, etc. seek. Look out for publications in district newspapers, notices, etc. that refer to all the small shops, clubs, organizations that are too young, too small, are not financially strong enough to place their offers in the front of the projection screens of the advertising cosmos that "beautifies" a large part of our everyday life.

DIY, SM is in

Uninspired consumption is out, DIY = do-it-yourself or SM = do-it-yourself (not sado-maso, although that's also pretty trendy since the inundation with fifty shades of gray) is in vogue. Among the 18,700 video tips on the web there are also some to make yourself, but not really to make yourself - like one of the As Sales Stars put it, it's more about buying loads of merchandise to "get inspired by." permit". In 2015, candles should be the trend item in large numbers: in a decorated glass, in a glass on a tray with Jewelry around it, in the tree trunk, in a wire frame, on a crocheted rug, on special autumnal ones plastic sets. The enchanting young lady in the video knows Yankee Candles (in a glass), Colony Candles (also in a glass, only in groups), For-Everybody-Candles (also in glass, probably there is a difference) and bath and bodywork candles (also in glass, probably with artificial Aroma); and if you didn't know them before, this gap in education has finally been closed.

She recently got to know a French company and their many candles, she carefully reads the whole long product description of the candles to us in the video. Lots of stuff because there are mini scented candles, votive candles, wood wick scented candles, triple scented candles, aromatherapy candles, bomb cosmetics scented candles, colony wax lyricals, greenleaf candles, gourmet Scented candles, lanolin scented candles, Old Williamsburgh Candles, Shearer Candles, massage candles (how do they do that?), scented melts, tarts and winter scented candles, that's how you get the terrace full.

If you can be inspired by your own thinking and read it yourself, you don't necessarily need these trend videos and trend suggestions (dictations). Maybe you don't care at all what's trending because you like to set your own trends. In this case, you probably don't need any information in terms of creativity, and you don't have to pay €10 + €6.95 either Spend shipping on one of these candles, instead stocking 100 tealights for €3.15 or 30 scented tealights for €1.99 a tablet.

The table is decorated with this, but lighting and supervising candles distributed all around would no longer be fun. So here are a few more convenient ideas for emulating the latest decorating trends:

• You could buy waterproof LED tea lights to distribute between fall plantings.
• Or decorate the balcony boxes/pots with an outdoor chain of lights, both of which are available in many colours
• Cake toppers, copper tubes bent into figures and lettering that are placed on top of the cake, are trendy in another area
• But it costs a good €30, you can make it yourself, but only with special instructions from copper tubing, it's not that easy to bend
• Instead, it is made of a transparent round hose that you can fill with anything, glittering, glowing
• Or made of semi-transparent plastic round cord in neon colors that also fluoresces
• Or made of pedding, the completely natural variant
• A few simple figures are quickly bent and quickly attached to a ground anchor and placed in the balcony box/bucket
• They are decorated for autumn with a tendril that you make yourself from maple leaves, yarn and natural fiber cord
• It will be Christmassy with a red ribbon and decorative tags depending on your wishes and taste

Plant and decorate Christmas happiness for children

You can make the life of smaller children unforgettable by cleverly combining unusual planting with ordinary decoration:

1. Plant tree jockey saplings (Dermatobotrys saundersii), which will bear their amazing and showy red flowers until December. With tinsel in dark red unusually beautiful for adults. If it gets significantly colder than minus 5 °C, the tree jockeys have to go in overnight.

2. The carpet berry (Gaultheria procumbens) withstands more cold, and at Christmas it bears bright red berries at the same time dark red foliage, which tends slightly towards violet, with decoration in pink, red, purple (ribbons or tinsel) a real hit for smaller kids.

3. Cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) also offer red berries as Christmas decorations, the color of gold Tinsel "screams" and in the "bushes" you can certainly find lots of colorful Christmas tree ornaments accommodate. Tree jockey and cranberry form edible fruits after flowering, and carpet berries are not poisonous either, they just don't taste good.

The decoration trend proclaimed at this year's trade fairs wants to replace Christmas decorations with winter decorations decorates the home from the beginning of November to the end of January, including an extension of the sales period for the corresponding ones Accessories. For trend aficionados (trend victims) the entry into a long period of unchecked consumption, exciting retailtainment (experience purchase) in elaborately styled PoS (points of sale = shops); if you have enough experience in life, you can do without it. The best winter decoration is and will always be beautiful white snow, especially since we seem to have less and less white Christmases (which we don't It's true, "on average every 7 to 10 years, a white Christmas" says the statistics since the weather records began, but it feels like it is and will remain so now once like that). If in doubt, decorative snow helps, and if you don't want to confuse yourself and your offspring with unknown substances, make your own decorative snow:

• Spreadable decorative snow is made from bird sand (chinchilla sand) and white wall paint
• Decorative snow sticking to smooth surfaces can also be mixed with white tinting paint and sugar
• While this snow dries, you can place all sorts of finely divided decorative materials in/on top of it
• Coconut flakes in protein glue + powdered sugar are also dried to white snow
• If no one will lick the decorated material/item/plant, even shaving cream will make a realistic ice-snow crust
• 7.5 g of sodium polyacrylate (that's what sucks in diapers, you can order in pharmacies) + 180 ml of water to make artificial snow

Conclusion

For autumn and winter on the balcony and terrace, you can create planting with minimal effort that will last for several years and can be changed again and again with decorations. There are many individual possibilities for decoration, very quick and for the most part bought and very artful, which are made by oneself.

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