Snagged a house with a 32 sq m terrace and turned it into a garden bursting with flowers
Only a handful of households in this residential complex have a terrace, so I was very lucky to be able to buy one!
For the sake of making my small terrace bloom with flowers this year, I started sowing seeds and buying plants back in winter to prepare for spring, recording the little moments of terrace life from winter to early summer to share with everyone.
Here are two panorama shots of the terrace from a few days ago. Mainly there were still too few flowers, so I was really too embarrassed to post them, please don't laugh at me. These past couple of days more flowers have appeared, so I'll take a couple more photos and post them another day.
Flowers and plants everywhere. The big pot was just bought, ready for planting 'Pierre de Ronsard' roses
I spent all afternoon busy today, planting the tomatoes, lettuce and sweet bamboo mustard, and also repotting the blue marguerite, yellow marguerite, pink marguerite, little hibiscus and blue plumbago into bigger pots, hoping they'll bloom brilliantly before long.
Geraniums, blooming more and more luxuriantly.
The self-sown cosmos have started to bloom. This autumn I'll go to Beigong again to get some seeds.
The blue plumbago grown from seed has finally bloomed. There are lots of buds, and it will burst into flower very soon
Still 'Sweet Dream', blooming very luxuriantly
Looking forward to the spring when 'Sweet Dream' covers the trellis. They say 'Sweet Dream' is a very prolific bloomer, and it opens in big clusters, though I do feel 'Sweet Dream' does grow rather slowly.
The terrace looks hazy in the night, with a charm all its own. The lights are solar-powered ones bought on Taobao, no wiring needed, just stick them straight into the soil, they charge themselves during the day and light up automatically at night, really quite nice!
Quiet, crystal-clear, warm, simple. Without the riot of color of days gone by, is that touch of green under the sunlight still just as beautiful? Using my lens to record the colors that belong to winter.
The only violet that survived the summer. I love the delicate little white flowers, especially the way they look bathed in sunlight.
The wrought-iron table and chairs I just bought a few days ago, they look great placed here
A week of scorching heat and blazing sun plus a night of torrential rain, and there are basically no flowers left to see on the terrace. Luckily the sunflowers sown in spring have opened a brilliant smiling face.