Summer containers 2021/2022 ideas?

I've never grown these before! They look very nice! I've taken note of the name as I might try & get some seeds to grow on the balcony.

 

Last year my son took me to a garden nursery to let me choose some plants as a birthday present. Among the plants I got were some Calibrachoas. I'd seen them in a hanging basket in his garden the year before & I liked them very much. So I got enough plants to put in the 5 hanging baskets I have at the front of the balcony.

 

I'll see about getting some more for the hanging baskets again this year as I liked them very much! Being self-cleaning also means I don't need to risk life & limb climbing up on a chair to deadhead them from time to time!

 

What are other balcony gardeners putting in their balconies this summer?

 

Ooh, I love the Orange ones. I am into Pink and Orange together at the moment. Sadly here you don't often get named things.

 

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Here are some photos of the baskets when they were probably at their best in the middle of July 2021.

 

Are you in Portugal?

 

Yes, I am, in rainy Algarve. Been here 21 years.

 

I see the photos have come out as thumbnails! But I clicked on insert full image!

 

One year longer than we have been in this flat in the UK!

 

Go back in and Edit to full size.

 

Possibly because I used the Quick reply?

 

Thanks! I did that & now they are full size!

 

Victoria, do you garden on a balcony? I lived in the centre of Spain for many years & it was there I learnt to garden in the restricted space of a balcony!

 

The flat we lived in for 13 years had two balconies; one open, & in the kitchen, which looked out onto an enormous interior patio, one, enclosed at both ends, & in the living room, looking out over the street. It was on the 5th floor of the block we lived in.