Tour Of My Balcony Garden In Winter

In today’s video I give you a tour of my urban balcony garden in the winter. I’m showing you how it looks off season and highlight all of my evergreen plants. I garden in zone 8 but all of the plants I’m presenting in today’s video are very winter hardy. Hope you find some ideas and inspiration in today’s episode.
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Hello everyone! It’s the beginning of January and I would like to give you guys a quick tour of my   balcony garden at this time of year, to show you how it looks off season, to show you what remains   on my balcony during winter and also to highlight a few evergreen plants that provide interest right  

Now when everything else is dormant. As a reminder I garden in zone 8 which is a rather mild climate   but at the same time all of these evergreen plants that I’m going to show you today are winter hardy  

Down to zone 3 or 4 others to zone 5 or 6 so I  think that even if you leave in a colder climate   you can still potentially find some ideas in  today’s video. So without further ado let’s start  

With the back of the balcony. So this area of  my balcony garden which I call the shade corner,   doesn’t receive any direct sunlight at all even  during the season. So I grow a lot of herbaceous   perennials in here, in all of these empty looking  pots there are my dormant herbaceous perennials.  

But as you can notice I don’t like the look  of bare soil, so I top dress the containers   with some sort of mulch. Oh there’s a there’s a bumblebee that just arrived on my Hellebore!   Isn’t that amazing! I’m going to talk about this in a moment. So I top dress my containers with  

Some sort of mulch because I feel like that makes them look a little bit more interesting than just   looking at bare soil. That’s something that I  spoke about in one of my recent videos where I   talked about how to add winter interest to your balcony on a budget. So in this area here we  

Have two evergreen plants first Carex ‘Evergold’, beautiful ornamental grass hardy down to zone 6,   grows really rapidly, adds a lot of movement,  adds a pop of color during winter and looks even   better in summer when you incorporate it in your container garden display, when you mix it with  

Some flowers. Next we have Hellebore that is loved by bees. Hellebores are a must have if you want to   add winter interest to your balcony or container garden. They bloom between December and March   which is really amazing, many Hellebores are hardy down to zone 3 but these hybridized versions these  

Hybridized cultivars they are a little bit less  winter hardy ,they are hardy down to zone 5 or 6.   Here we have a white cultivar I forgot the name of it I’m sorry and on those warmer days or early in  

The spring when there’s not much blooming in the garden bees absolutely love hellebores as you can   see right now we are in January the temperature is quite warm at the moment even though we had frost   before but some bees wake up and they search for some nectar rich plants and as you can see they  

Enjoy Hellebores very much! So in this area here as we move back we have three evergreen plants   we have one more of those Carex grasses, we have my bay laurel topiary, and then we have Euonymus   fortuneii ‘Harlequin’. You can forget about this plant that’s how low maintenance it is. Beautiful  

Variegated leaves with a bit of pink tinge during winter mine doesn’t look very variegated at the   moment because I actually trimmed it, I’m shaping it into a ball, and I trimmed it quite late in the   season so I cut off all of those beautiful fresh variegated leaves. So in here on the right hand  

Side we have several containers with bulbs with bulb lasagna, I layered several different types   of bulbs in one container repeated it four times the bulbs are right now starting to peek through   the soil so in a couple of months we should have a really beautiful spring flower display. On the  

Left hand side here up front two containers with spring bulbs, another ornamental grass Carex   flagellifera, hardy down to zone 6, I actually  really love it with fall compositions. Up above   we have a heuchera, they are really amazing for winter interest, they are hardy down to zone 4  

They come in a range of beautiful colors. I think I have four on my balcony right now and I will   gladly grow four more! Really easy maintenance they bloom early summer. I you garden in a really   cold climate and you have a lot of snowfall,  the leaves may not look as attractive, so you  

May need to cut them back and wait for the fresh leaves to reappear in the spring, but other than   that they are really great for winter interest. I  have another one in here this one unfortunately I   don’t know the name of, because it came without a plant tag but I really love these beautiful kind  

Of champagne looking leaves. Another Hellebore, this one is called ‘Ice N’Roses’ and a little   Sedum on the floor, and I didn’t even bother  to repot this one. I got this one in the fall   and just placed it there and they can take some frost they are hardy down to zone 7. Next I have  

Two poted evergreens. thuja occidentallis hardy down to zone 3. Highly encourage you to look into   conifers cuz they’re really winter hardy, really  low maintenance and even if you have a very small   balcony you can have a very small conifer. They come in a range of sizes you can find some really  

Cute dwarf varieties. Another grouping of plants, up front we have another Heuchera ‘Silver Gumdrop’   which looks a little bit purplish at the moment because of the lower light levels, in summer it   turns more silvery. We have Scabiosa that should be dormant at the moment but it just doesn’t want  

To go to sleep and it even produces flowers. We have a Foxglove that I grew from seeds, these   are biennial plants so we saw them in summer then they over winter as seedlings and then they bloom   in the spring. We have Ivy ‘Glacier’ beautiful  variegated Ivy highly encourage you to grow Ivy  

On your balcony very low maintenance grows well in the shade and in the sun. You can grow it as   a trailing plant, you can grow it as a climbing  plant and you can grow it on top of obelisks to  

Add some beautiful vertical interest to your  garden. And at the back here we have evergreen   fern, I completely don’t remember the name of this plant. Ferns have the most complicated botanical   names to remember. I have a couple of ferns  on my balcony they are are really amazing for  

Shade. Ooutdoor ferns are not as high maintenance  as indoor ferns, as these that we grow as house   plants, so definitely recommend ferns for your  shady garden, especially evergreen ferns, because   you know there’s never too much winter interest, never too many evergreen plants on your balcony.

Okay so we have arrived to the other  end of the balcony there’s a whole   bunch of everything behind me. There  are some spring bulbs under and some   more biennial plants there is my veggie  garden where I grow alpine strawberries   and blueberries and herbs. I have still my  parsley going strong, despite the frost,  

We have more Carex flagellifera, we have more Carex ‘Evergold’, some Sedum palmerii, that is   about to bloom. I mean it started to produce  buds but it’s going to bloom in the spring. And behind me on the trellis we have yet another beautiful Ivy, Ivy ‘Goldheart’ which has beautiful  

Reddish stems and the color is more intense in summer when it gets a little bit of sunlight,   but beautiful reddish stems and beautiful  variegated leaves. I planted it last spring   so it’s still very young but I’m hoping for this  plant to completely cover these two trellises and  

Provide a beautiful privacy screen. Okay you guys I hope that you enjoyed this tour of my balcony   garden in winter I’m really curious as to which evergreen plants you grow on your balcony and   which plants you would recommend for container  gardens. Please share that in the comments  

Section! Thank you so much for joining me on this tour and we’ll see each other in the next video! Bye!