Fragrant plants on the balcony

Plants on the balcony

The balcony or terrace of relevance to our house may allow the construction of a small green space, which can be equipped with fragrant plants.
The different varieties may be chosen from among those with blooming bright colors or with delicate or aromatic fragrances, some of which are also suitable for a culinary use.

The arrangement of the plants, the choice of the same along with the choice of the vases in which to prepare them, the space available and the orientation of the balcony or terrace are the elements that allow us to build our green space. This, in the shelter of the house, enables you to enjoy an oasis for relaxation or for taking a break in the green, making a flowered corner, evergreen and fragrant.
If this is placed near the entrance to the sitting room or to another room in the house, it can give pleasant scents to those who use those environments.

The life of the plant, however, requires the right exposure to light and of an adequate temperature if you choose to place it outside the house, whether you prefer an indoor environment.
In choosing the location of the plants to be placed, must be taken into account the type of exposure of the balcony or terrace.
To the South or East there will be more light and sun, the heat will be more intense in the summer months in the South, while in the East there will be more sun especially in the morning.

Also the amount of water for watering together with an appropriate choice of the quality of the soil, which may if necessary be enriched with fertilizers, are fundamental to its life.
To verify at every purchase, consulting the information documents in each plant should have, these indications should be found simply asking more information to the leaders of the nurseries that are involved in selling.

Let us now take care of the eventual choice of a fragrant or aromatic plants to be placed on our balcony, choosing among those that are on the market, some of which are proposed by the companies: Il Lavandeto di Assisi and Rose Barni.

La Rosa

The Rose is a balcony plant always chosen and used to create fragrances or essences. Many hybrid forms, though some have lost their primal scent, while others have gained particular fragrance.

There are currently a number of species and varieties of roses, including those scented varieties include Tea Rose and particularly among its La France hybrids with the pink and silver flowers very thick, large and fragrant, which must be grown in particularly bright sunny environments.

Lavender

Intense and pleasant scent, dried Lavender can also be stored in cabinets continuing to spread a pleasant fragrance. It is a herbaceous plant that can create on our balcony ornamental bushes, its silver leafs are very fragrant. Lavender is characterized by a flowering soft colors of purple, white, pink and blue, and if the plants are well arranged they wonderfully adorn our balconies.

The Heliotrope

Another interesting example is to be the Heliotrope commonly referred to as Fior vanilla, that when it blooms during spring and summer, produces flowers with a very fragrant smell of vanilla and white, deep purple or lilac color.

Precisely because of its intense fragrance is often grown in pots that allow its easy movement during the colder months, if necessary, in sheltered and protected from the harsh climate.

Other fragrant plants

They can be placed outside on our balcony or terrace, the hyacinth flower showy and scented , whose bulbs are readily available on the market; jasmine, fragrant especially at night, characterized by flowers ranging from white to yellow to reddish. A creeper and ever green that so can be laid on wooden shelves to rest against the walls, alongside the vases so that jasmine can easily grow on the walls.
It can also be placed next to railings to create, in this way, small flowered mantles along the balconies.

A variety of fairly widespread Jasmine is the so-called yellow Jasmine blooming even in winter, also called Jasmine St. Joseph for his own blossoming during the winter period.

Aromatic plants

Used in cooking and capable of spreading delicate fragrances, aromatic plants to choose for our balcony can be: Peppermint with its small fragrant menthol leaves; Salvia; Thyme; Rosemary; the common Basil and the wonderful colorful plants of chilli.