My dream would be an apartment with at least two balconies, facing different directions for the sun. While in the South of France, it’s easier to find an apartment with a balcony, in this part of Florida, it’s much easier to find a house. So I am facing a yard where nothing colorful seems to grow. I have some palms and laurel oaks, but few flowers.
Starting a flower bed is pretty overwhelming. That’s space you’ve just cleared of the mesh of roots and weeds, requires more than a car trunk full of little plants and bags of dirt or mulch. After many attempts at a border, I know better. Go for something smaller, more manageable.
I have started with several flower pots, some for shade and others for sun. I got the idea from walking through the Florida Tech campus. The landscape folks had transformed a very boring area (known as the “quad”) into inviting spaces with the addition of pots and borders.
My first attempts at flower pots (now known as container gardening) involve a $16.99 cobalt blue ceramic pot from a Ross Department store, hot pink geraniums, alyssum and small pansies in pots that take sun. Coleus and dusty miller and New Guinea impatiens are for the partial sun spots. I was hoping to find more draping or trailing plants. But that will be on the next trip to the nursery.
Although I would still prefer a balcony overflowing with ivy geraniums and roses, these spots of color will do for now. The plants have a good chance of survival, and I am not overwhelmed by borders.
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