That's an amazing plant! It's a challenge to make it look good hanging but also keep it bushy on top.

Great ideas! Thank you so much from Albuquerque, NM! I am a master gardener but can always learn more

The pine cones as soil cover is genius

KZbin algorithm strikes again. I was planning to get one for my balcony and was wondering if you can grow them in a pot. Thanks a lot for the tips!

This video was SO helpful, thank you! Your tradescantia is lovely! I'm a beginner, and I have been planting water propagated cuttings in the same small pots and wondering if I've been doing things foolishly wrong. This video helped me know the things I need to correct and inspired to keep at it.

so helpful thank you xx

Absolutely love your balcony garden. What an inspiration. What is that gorgeous plant in the back with red/purple flowers? 😍

First of all love your content. Your videos are very informative and I love to keep learning about gardening. I wanted to comment on Orange Dream. I have one six years old on a east facing bacony in Madrid. It stands two months with most days over 40 degrees. The first years was as yours, scorched leaves after summer. Now it has adapted and being well watered it goes through summer much better. Hope it helps!!

Missing you! Looking forward to Fall! Hope all is well!

Your video inspired me a bit too much as I ended up bringing home over 300 hundred bulbs of different varieties. Lidl and Aldi just started to offer fall planting bulbs yesterday here and I just went crazy lol I live in zone 7, so I am a bit worried about whether or not Iris hollandica and Anemone blanda will survive the cold. Not worried about the rest as they are super hardy ones like Daffodils, Muscari, Tulip, Iris reticulata, Crocus, Fritillaria imperialis, Alliums (I did not realize that they are summer bloomers but oh , well, too late now! lol). I plan on trying the bulb lasagna method you showed in the other video and then some individual grouping for each pot. I am super excited about how they will all turn out next spring.

I ordered three different compact growing Hostas earlier this spring. Unfortunately, I left them in the box for almost a month and by the time I got to planting them in May, they were grown leggy inside the plastic bag they came in. So they had a terrible start. They eventually replaced the leggy growths with newer leaves, but one of them is about half dead looking now. I'll gonna see if they will come back next spring assuming that I will successfully overwinter them. I know they are very hardy so I plan on just leaving them unprotected and see what happens.

I thought I would try some Dahlias on my balcony this year and got myself three varieties, one small and two very large ones. I know I was a bit ambitious. Well, the start was very nice and promising. As the season went on, they grew big and provided the nice green backdrop I was aiming for. In early July, leafminers decided to eat my Dahlias but I could easily locate the larvae inside the leaves and just gently squash them to death while they are still inside the leaf! I really enjoyed killing them one by one. lol Surprisingly though, no other pests on any other plants. I was afraid Begonias might get spidermites (but so far in Germnay, no spidermites on my plants to my delightful surprise!!). Then, I started seeing these tiny green jumping insects on my Dahlias. At first, I would just try and catch them and kill by hand, but they were rather fast and easily escape my hand. Soon, they multiplied in numbers but still only stayed on Dahlias. I was getting super annoyed and once I found them on my other plants next to Dahlias, I put a huge black trash bag over them and took them out. I did enjoy a few flowers but they were not as good as anticipated. I guess I'll never get Dahlias again unless I move to a house with a garden. No more bugs and my Elephant ears are growing big fast filling up the open space where the Dahlias were. My current biggest challenge is to overwinter perrenials and more importantly my beautiful Hydrangeas, which will hopefully provide a nice back drop for other smaller plants I plan on trying. I see that you have some Hydrangeas so I'm gonna search and see if you have already covered that topic. You said you are in zone 8. I'm in Berlin, so zone 7 I believe.

Mine did phenomenal in full sun during the summer. and it started as a few stems

Oh I've just watched your vlog and I'm glad you did one ! First, the view from your air bnb is perfect ! Then your holiday activities were 👌: pastries, gardens and garden centre ! Before I was envious of US garden centres but now I feel like I must add italians ones to the list 😁 Your head planter is gorgeous ! I don't know why in France it is so difficult to find nicely done faces. A big garden centre chain recently sold one where the eyes were so wrong ! (I finally found one quite pretty in a supermarket 🤷‍♀) Oh it's funny you talk about blue salvia, I have one since last year and I wanted to swap it for another colour but no one was interested. Did your husband find inspiration in that park he wanted to visit ? 😃

Mine have grown healthy and bushy, and even flowered this year, but nothing like the length of yours. They do tend to be the least fussed over though, so I'll give them extra love.

Grow bags also good

Good

Such a great video for us balcony gardeners. Thanks heaps. I learned more from this than watching 10 other plant videos. Friendly hug from California.

Hoping you come back soon to KZbin! ☺🌻

Thank you for this wonderful video.

The part close to the soil get leggy and dry no matter what I do 😢

I just wanted to share that this pace of video was perfect for me as a beginner. Thank you for teaching me how to take care of this little plant I've been desperate to protect!

BEAUTIFUL balcony!!!!! Looks like you get full sun - lucky!

Hi, Dominica. Happy vacation!

Beautiful flowers you have! I am growing a few Hydrangeas in the Balcony for the first time this year. I am worried about how to keep them during the winter. Do I water them at all during the winter? My winter gets freezing cold (USDA zone 7) so I'm afraid watering the pot during the winter might freeze the roots and kill them. At the same time, I don't want to dry them to death if that's what's going to happen if I stopped watering the entire winter. Please help!!

How much water would be necessary for deciduous plants like Hydrangeas in pot in freezing cold winter? Would they die if left bone dry? I read that watering can also freeze the roots to death. I'm a bit perplexed as this is going to be my first winter for potted plants out on the balcony and it is USDA zone 7 here.

Great video short and to the point. I jusr bought a little tub like this yesterday and put my thick monstera chonk in it. I've not had much luck with moss my cutting always rot. I'll add some perlite in this time.

Your balcony garden is so beautifully curated ! So lovely. Thanks for showing us your garden!😊

excellent explanation with useful tips.

Cuttings are online like etsy

Hi Dominika, I love your plants, they looks so healthy and beautiful! Quick question: what do you do with the cuttings of Hydrangea? Do you replant them to multiply the plants you have (or gift them) or you just throw them away?

Thank you. I loved this video. 😊

So beautiful. Thank you for the video and I certainly believe that this plant can grow this much in a year. I have one and it grows with great vigor. Mine however is not particularly bushy so thank you for the tip to add additional stems. How many stems do you have in the pot if you don’t mind me asking. Best wishes for happy plants 🪴🪴🪴

Thank you for these tips. I think you're right about fertilizer causing the mint to become leggy, because that is exactly what had happened to my plant. I also wasn't using enough of it to encourage new growth (I've read that pinching some off on a regular basis will help it grow more bushy). So now I've just planted a new plant in a window that will get morning sun. I won't add fertilizer this time. So hopefully this one might do better. I love mint tea and also like to put some sprigs of mint in cold water as well, to give it flavor. It is excellent for drinking after meals or for stomach problems and is good for children that have upset tummies, too. :)

I love mint tea, and I was looking to grow some of my own spearmint for it. Thank you for the tips and guide. I had no idea there were flavored mints too!

nice video

Useful tips. I've lost a few plants like Clematis, Neem & Mulberry after repotting and pruning recently. I did it because temperatures were cooler and all of a sudden a week full of extreme heat caused all those plants to die.

Very helpful, Dominica .Thanks. We had 38 Celsius for more days, my japanese maple is very ugly and the hydrangeas too. Even the ivys look not good on the top, but only a few leaves. The conniferes, the cannas and the begonias are fine, and the asparagus too. Your Dahlias are huge and the boegonias splendid. 🥀🌻

Good tips. I hope I can find "Root Power" sounds like just what I need for summer fertilizing. A couple of tips: Like I said, the word "Shadow" is usually for scary things. The umbrella will provide "Shade" which is friendly. Trivial comment, but i like it. Another thing that should be obvious but stupid me did not know when I started gardening: Plants in pots do not get much water from rain. It looks foolish watering a potted plant in the rain, but the leaves of the plant produce what is sometimes called a, rain shadow, so the water goes around the plant and not into the pot. Woops, I used scary SHadow instead of friendly Shade. A single person or plant has a shadow and the common terms for a plant s not letting rain through is "rain shadow". Confusing right!?. Thanks for your help with my containers.

Hola amiga! 👋 I'm sure this video will help a lot of folks.😃 We are in our summer temps...100 to 106 daily. It's according to where ya live if all plants need shade, can't be fed or pruned at these temp. My cosmos, zinnias, sunflowers, and many veggie plants laugh at this heat. They are all in containers...fruit trees as well. We do summer prune our trees...they produce better. I have to transplant in this heat to get fall cold crops. I cover the transplants with shade cloth until the temp come down to the mid-80 in late September. Shade cloth keeps my peppers, basil, and other herbs producing in this heat.👩🏾‍🌾💕

You need to be sure that the plant is dry. Plants can wilt in the heat of the day because they cannot utilize the water, and perk up in the cool of evening.

Great job, it all looks lovely, the passion flower looks perfect in that spot!

Hi Dominika (hope I've got your name right). Thank you for tip 5 on watering the leaves of the plants. I noticed powdery mildew on the leaves of my plants and now know the reason why. I'll stop been lazy and start watering them correctly. I have been a subscriber for a while when you showed up in my feed. Thank you.

Very helpful!! Thank you!!

You are so talented! My patio is very similar to yours in terms how much of sunlight and shade it gets. I was really happy to see that you are growing blueberries and roses successfully. I am very keen to grow both but I thought it would be a waste of time and money. I would love to know more about growing blueberries in the shade.

Such a successful crop! 🤗

Your flowers are so beautiful with so many colors. Wishing you good health ❤

5:45 omg I've been saying kalanchoe incorrectly all this time lol (ka-lan-cho). you saved me from further embarrassment.