There is space on the smallest balcony - especially if you also plant greenery on the walls and sides of the summer living room.
Climbing plants can sometimes do this in record time.
Stuttgart / Elmshorn - A pot is enough for a clematis - it can transform a balcony into a green oasis. Climbing plants like these can do even more: They provide privacy from curious neighbors, provide shade and beautify the facade. “And when you sit on the balcony, you have something at eye level that might even smell nice.
There is a bit of a jungle feeling, ”enthuses Martin Staffler, landscape architect and book author from Stuttgart.
Climbing plants * can be divided into three groups: annuals, perennials and an intermediate form.
Climbers that only thrive for a year include nasturtiums, vetches, beans - and the
black-eyed Susan
.
“This is a grateful climber who, with a lot of fertilizer and good irrigation, simply grows great and blooms wonderfully in yellow and orange,” says Staffler.
Perennial plants can get very tall
Perennial plants include
climbing bindweed, pipe winds or clematis.You
should
keep an eye on
their size, because some are much larger and sometimes heavier than a balcony can support.
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Perennial plants like the clematis can get very tall - luckily there is a suitable climbing aid for every climbing plant.
© Caroline Seidel / dpa-tmn
But there are also clematis varieties that can reach a maximum height of two meters, according to Mathias Münster, member of the board of the Association of German Tree Nurseries. Examples are 'Nubia' with red flowers, 'Alaina' with pink flowers and 'Ninon' with white flowers. “These varieties bloom from May and June and are constantly producing new flowers,” says Münster.
They are ideal for the bucket and thus for the balcony
. But you have to make sure that the foot of the clematis is in the shade at the planting site. To do this, the area around the main shoot is covered with small stones or bark mulch.
The third group of climbing plants forms an intermediate form, which includes bougainvillea or passion flower.
They are perennial when they grow in the garden soil.
However, if they are kept in pots, they should be
protected from the cold in winter
and taken indoors.
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The black-eyed Susanne (Thunbergia alata) only lasts one year, while bougainvilleas (Bougainvillea) belong to the perennials - but must be put in the pot in winter.
© Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / dpa-tmn
Grid, cord or a scaffolding as a climbing aid?
The climbing aids must match the plants.
So-called twists such as the whistle winch and black-eyed Susanne have no climbing organs themselves, they just loop around their scaffolding.
Tension wires or a fine grid are ideal here.
The real jasmine and the climbing roses are spreading climbers
: They pull themselves up on the climbing frames with their thorns, small branches or spikes.
Your long shoots should be fixed a little.
"While I should tend to stretch the wires vertically on the twists, the spreader climbers need something horizontal with several floors at a distance of 30 to 40 centimeters," explains Christine Scherer from the Bavarian Garden Academy.
Solid trellis with rhombuses, on the other hand, only need trees.
So-called tendrils such as grapevines and clematis form small loop arms.
“You can handle anything that is thin, i.e. no more than pencil thickness,” explains Scherer.
She therefore recommends wire ropes or welding mats with a mesh size of five centimeters.
For multi-year olds, durable material should be used, such as stainless steel or wire ropes and galvanized welded mesh.
It is better to avoid ivy, which is also known as a stick climber
, emphasize both experts.
Because the plant wedges itself with its adhesive roots in cracks and joints and thus causes damage to the masonry.
Wild wine is also not suitable for the balcony.
Literature:
Martin Staffler: City balcony & roof terrace: design green oases individually, Franckh Kosmos Verlag, 2013, 144 pages, ISBN-13: 978-3440134603
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