DIY a 20 sq m courtyard garden on the ground floor, growing flowers and plants is truly delightful

DIY a 20 sq m "courtyard garden" on the ground floor. It's a small garden. For in-ground planting, my main focus is roses and clematis, and then some herbaceous flowers were planted first to make the new garden lively. If I have seeds to sow, I generally won't buy seedlings. The seedlings I sow myself are much sturdier than bought ones. For those without seeds to sow, I buy seedlings, and then if necessary I take cuttings every year, such as marguerite daisies, little hibiscus, summer chrysanthemums.....

Annual herbaceous flowers are newly sown every year, such as several hundred seedlings of violas, pansies, gazanias, isotoma, lobelias, petunias, calibrachoas......

For chrysanthemums, I only grow Beijing summer chrysanthemums. After more than half a month of rain, all the flowers were ruined, so I cut them all back

Last winter there was no sun for four months

This year is better. It had just been cloudy and rainy for about half a month. Yesterday was still bright sunshine, and today it turned cloudy again. At noon I watered the flowers, and now it keeps raining.

Let me upload a few I snapped today. I had no inspiration for photos today, maybe because of the cloudy weather. Hardly any flowers are blooming.

Double-petaled impatiens, bought as small seedlings, grow quite fast. I hardly dared to fuss with them. I feel these flowers with fleshy stems are quite delicate. It's been too cold lately, and with more than 20 days of cloudy and rainy weather, they're still out in the rain. Many leaves have turned yellow, and now their growth isn't good at all.

There seem to be a bit too many terracotta pots. Overall it looks a little crowded. The garden is beautifully layered...

I want to place two large ceramic pots at the entrance. That's a public area, but it can fit several large pots. Then I touch this one and touch that one, and I can't bear to move any of them out. I know that even if I move a few more out, no one would notice any are missing. It's really too crowded, but.... but.... it seems they just keep increasing. No way, no way, I can't control myself

I dream of having a small yard, growing flowers and plants. How wonderful!