The simplicity of Japanese gardens is trendy because this variant of white-green garden design decelerates the fast-paced everyday life. So why not simply transfer this philosophy to the balcony box? This works best with small grasses and white pebbles in the flower box. Discover beautiful ornamental grasses for the balcony here.
Grasses are easy to care for and decorative
Top 5 of the ideal grasses for the sunny window box
Grasses are much more than fillers or extras for cocky perennials. The following 5 premium species for sunny locations provide compelling evidence that grasses have the potential to be the star:
- Foxy red sedge (Carex buchananii) with red-brown spike flowers in summer
- Crested sedge 'Frosted Curls' (Carex comans) with delicately twisted, silvery-green culms
- Magellanic blue grass (Elymus magellanicus), the steel blue ornamental grass for the sunny window box
- Blue Fescue 'Elijah Blue' (Festuca Cinerea), a long-lived grassy beauty with icy blue culms
- Japanese gold ribbon grass 'Aureola' (Hakonechloa macra), the ornamental grass with colorful, gold stripes and exciting autumn colours
Annual and hardy ornamental grasses are the perfect candidates for replacing wilted summer flowers in late summer. Instead of quarreling with the withered blossoms for a long time, pot the flowers and replace them with autumn-attractive grasses, such as mountain sedge (Carex montana) with sulphur-yellow brush ears.
Top 3 shade parkers among ornamental grasses
When there is a lack of light on the north-facing balcony, shade-tolerant grasses come into their own. The following types and varieties transform the flower box (€16.99) in a low-light location into a green work of art:
- Mushroom sedge 'The Beatles' (Carex Digitata): the name of the variety says it all
- Shade sedge (Carex umbrosa), the easy-care problem solver for shady and dry locations
- Snow marbel (Luzula nivea) inspires with white fluffy flowers over filigree, evergreen culms
Color contrasts with gravel and bark mulch - that's how it works
On the shady balcony, flowers and perennials are usually unsuitable as color contrasts. Creative hobby gardeners are not discouraged by this, but use white pebbles, red or blue pine bark as mulch (€239.00) under the grasses in the balcony box.
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Grasses form a harmonious community with flowers in the flower box. If you don't want to limit yourself to a green basic chord, combine ornamental grasses with blue lobelia, cheeky pansies and elegant hanging petunias. Onion flowers, such as crocuses, March crushers or snowdrops ensure a blooming start to the year.