It is really wonderful to tinker with a terrace garden; sipping tea and reading a book is so relaxing.

My dream is to have a terrace like this, so full of artistic flair. It is really wonderful to tinker with a "terrace garden"! This scene and this mood, sipping tea, reading a book, so relaxing!

The little pelargoniums on the wall are about to burst into full bloom. Many friends ask why the plants grow so well. Actually, I just give them ordinary care.

I think the key is the soil, plus plenty of sunlight.

Potting mix is not a cure-all. Personally, I rather avoid potting mix, because I used it before and was not satisfied with it.

I mix my own soil.

Peat and black mountain soil are musts.

Then depending on the plant, I add vermiculite, perlite, and so on.

Except for the kalanchoe, which goes into the sunroom when it drops below 0 degrees, and the marguerite daisies and pelargoniums, which go to a spot on the terrace where rain and snow cannot reach them, the rest are left to grow on their own. Actually, most of the pots I could not move even if I wanted to. I grow very few flowers from seed myself.

The flower rack in the corner of the terrace.

The wooden box for the grapevine broke, so I replaced it with a pot over 40 cm, much smaller than before.

The grapes will not be great this year, I guess.

The pink marguerite daisies and white marguerite daisies have been blooming for almost 2 months now, and the number of flowers is clearly much lower now.

One pot of yellow marguerite daisies bought last year has now grown into several pots.

In the garden, yellow is very eye-catching.

My clay pots have been on the terrace for many years, and they only grow green moss.

Japanese stonecrop (Sedum japonicum) is a very good groundcover plant; it fears neither cold nor heat, neither drought nor waterlogging.

Now I generally propagate by cuttings, and buy seedlings for varieties I do not have. The Japanese stonecrop was given by a friend, just 2 or 3 cm square at the time.

On top of the flower rack.

I just snapped photos casually, so I will just upload them casually.

Japanese maple, a foliage plant I really like.

Last year, because it was too dense, the whole plant was blown over during a typhoon.

I had no choice but to forcefully thin out quite a few branches.

Pelargoniums are truly good children; in the Zhejiang area, they bloom beautifully in all four seasons.

It is just a pity that my skills are too poor to capture their beauty.

Corner.

Water used to soak the flowers will of course flow out of the pot, and once it dries there is no trace on the ground. But I line every flower pot with window screen fabric, so only water flows out of the pot and no soil is carried out.

With so many varieties of pelargoniums, I actually only photographed these few pots.

I will take careful photos another day.

Snapping and posting at random, I just hope everyone does not get tired of it.

In summer I do not put up shade cloth; it is too ugly. I use plants for shade instead: there is a grape trellis on top, covered all over with grapevines.