Buying a house for a 22 sq m balcony garden, worth driving 70 li round trip every day

Bought this house for the 22 sq m "balcony garden," driving 70 li round trip every day, and it's worth it!

Because it's nestled in the mountains, surrounded by greenery everywhere, and the balcony is planted with brightly colored flowers

The balcony faces southwest. In summer, only the area near the railing gets 2 to 3 hours of direct sun, and in other seasons it gets half a day of sun, which is fairly suitable for flowering plants

Winter is colder than in the city, so I only go to stay in spring, summer and autumn, and the flowers also grow slowly

Every day, looking from the room out to the balcony, my heart is full of joy

The balcony in April this year. Apart from the geraniums and some clematis, the rest are still growing leaves

Taken last spring, balcony breakfast in the morning mist

I've grown a group of little bells (calibrachoa). Once the flower stems grow longer, they'll all form balls

The ones blooming most enthusiastically are the geraniums

My garden has fallen flowers all over the ground, and a few more kinds of clematis have bloomed, so happy

The large-flowered black-red geranium, with a velvety texture, looking very rich and noble. In the air, a riot of brilliant colors, a hanging flower group made up of little bells and little trailing petunias

At the end of winter this year, they were frozen for a few days by heavy snow. Those that were saved all got shaved bald, grew slowly, and only reached full bloom by June

Angel's Eye, just starting to bloom

This spring was cold, so the white marguerite daisies bloomed late too

Last year's little bells, cuttings taken in early spring, shared among neighbors in the community. The bald mother plants sprouted again and bloomed

This yellow one wasn't pruned, and as a result only agreed to bloom on half the side

A bunch of little bell seedlings, some my own and some grown on behalf of friends

Bought 7 kinds of clematis, most of them 1- or 2-year-old seedlings, repotted this spring, blooming one after another

Pink Champagne, this one is from an earlier year. It originally had 20-something flower buds, most of which were frozen off in the late spring cold snap, and the remaining ones all finished blooming

Balcony space is limited, so I had to develop upward, and for that I added many trailing and hanging flowers

The balcony in June, all the flowers are blooming

The downside of growing flowers on a balcony: flowers turn toward the light, and often give you their backs!