A tiny 3 sq m balcony actually holds over 100 pots of flowers. Balcony gardeners, come learn from this!

My home is on the 19th floor, with a small balcony. The east side is a wall, and the south and west sides are floor-to-ceiling glass. In winter the sunlight is plentiful, from morning until the sun goes down. But in summer, when the sunlight comes in directly, it basically gets no sun.

Only a strip of twenty or thirty cm by the window on the balcony gets sunlight; the rest gets none. There is no way around the direct sun in summer, but winter is still quite plentiful.

A 3 sq m balcony holds so many flowers. As you know, it is very messy, messy in every way.

Transform like a butterfly, be as beautiful as a flower, be as content as a blade of grass to bow one's head to others...

Beaucarnea recurvata (ponytail palm). Look at it from left or right and it is still just a grass-like plant. If this fellow did not have a taro-like bulb at the bottom, I really would not have found anything special about it.

Aeonium 'Zwartkop' (black rose), wearing a dark watermelon-like cap on top.

The first bloom of the small Eden rose, the color is still very sweet.

Pelargonium grandiflorum 'Empire', deep red with white edges. Many flower lovers do not like this color, but I think the slightly velvety petals need a dark color to look noble.

Nasturtium sown in winter, and I actually managed to grow it with some success. Lots of buds, and it even set many, many, many seeds...

Does it feel a bit ghostly... It is a string of pearls (Senecio rowleyanus). I just discovered that the ring in the middle is transparent... If you noticed it long ago, do not laugh at me for making a fuss over nothing...

Kalanchoe 'Calandiva', with very large flowers, and sure enough, just as the legend says, it is double-flowered.

Kalanchoe 'Yellow Elf', loves to bloom. The little rooted cutting is already top-heavy.

Gazania, I like this color, very vivid.

My favorite thing is to behead the string of buttons (Crassula perforata). After cutting, it sprouts heads everywhere. May it fill the pot, amen...

This pot was originally grown from cuttings shared by regular mail on a forum last spring. It also had the problem of leggy growth, and today I have already trimmed it into a flat-top.

The white phoenix chrysanthemum has bloomed. It is the same variety as one of the pot-filling succulents above. The little daisy-like flowers can last a week. Cute, right?

Little stones given by a flower friend. I do not say it out loud, but in my heart I do like them, and I often go over to see whether they have grown.

A small bulb of the amaryllis 'Alfresco' just given by a flower friend actually sent up a flower scape. A tiny pot, a tiny bulb, yet the flower it opened is so big.

Schizanthus sown from seed. I sowed a bit late, and the whole winter I kept wondering whether to pull them out. Recently the temperature rose, and they suddenly burst into bloom... The light purple ones beside them are violas, probably seedlings that sprouted later by themselves in the seedling tray after I had sown them. They are actually a little pretty too, a mixed planting, ha.

Pelargonium grandiflorum 'Chocolate', a very deep color, somewhat blackish, with small leaves. It loves to bloom and easily fills a pot. Those who like this color family might consider getting one.

On the left is 'Summer Rose', and behind is '196'. Both are ivy geraniums. 'Summer Rose' is slightly darker in color than '196'.

Wine-red Angel's Eye, a small seedling. There is no pot-filling display to see, just scattered little blooms here and there.

Ivy geranium 'Loretta', truly a real beauty.

Livingstone daisy, also called midday flower. It closes in the morning and evening and opens during the day. The stronger the sun, the better it blooms. It likes relatively dry soil. The leaves are a bit succulent-like. Easy to sow and blooms a lot. Recommended.

Echeveria pulvinata 'Frosty', blooming.

Kalanchoe, small seedlings from a group buy last autumn. Through the long winter, aside from bulbs, they were the most brilliant of all.

Grown from cuttings taken last autumn. It grows fast and is cold-tolerant, heat-tolerant and drought-tolerant, simply an all-around excellent good comrade. This fellow even blooms too.

Purple string of pearls, a messy fellow. All right, I admit this fellow lacks light, seriously lacks light, extremely, extremely lacks light, so it does not look cute...

An unknown upright geranium. See the flower ball, right? Very beautiful, right? Very big, right... All right, I am proud...

So an enclosed balcony can also grow flowers well. It really opens my eyes. So many flowers, truly fascinating. Such a collected scene is truly pleasing to the eye!