7 fragrant plants on the terrace that are suitable for pots or boxes

Imagine that your balcony or terrace is a place where it smells beautiful and blooms… No, you don’t need a garden at all, just a few flowers or shrubs in a pot, and you can feel like you’re in a completely different world. There are plenty of plants on the market – balconies that are suitable for cultivation in these conditions. But we bring you tips for the most colorful and fragrant… Just choose!

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Plumery

When you plant this plant, you don’t even need to leave for an exotic holiday. The exotic plumerie will mediate the atmosphere of the tropics iu at home. While in your homeland – Central and South America – it reaches a height of up to 5 meters, in Czech conditions you achieve a maximum of less half. Usually Pléméria is grown as a house or greenhouse plant. However, summer is a time when you can stick it to the balcony and let it enjoy the sun. The flower benefits well in a sunny and warm habitat. To bloom well, it needs the soil with more acidic pH (for example peat) and occasional fertilization of fertilizer containing phosphorus. The dressing is sufficient regular and appropriate to avoid watering. If you give plundumeria suitable conditions, you will reward you with beautiful flowers and an incredible smell that literally breathes with exoticism.

Freesia

You may have seen it in a flower shop as part of the pugets. However, you can also grow freesia in containers on the balcony. The plant has beautiful colored flowers and smells intoxicating. According to experts, however, it hates too sharp the sun, so find it home in the shade. Ideal would be a place where there are more intense sun rays either in the morning or in the evening. Place the freesia into a box or container in the second half of May so that the tubers are just below the ground. It will be well in humous soil, but it must not be unnecessarily waterlogged. Water the plant regularly, but adequately. Before the freesia “deploy flowers”, give it a fertilizer with a lower salt content. Once the freesia blooms, it will decorate and smell your balcony or terrace.

Roses

This queen of gardens has a lot of varieties and some are ideal for growing in containers. But choose one that smells nice… Better than classic garden roses are old varieties or specially bred fragrance roses such as Darlow’s Enigma, Duchesse de Montebello, Multi -World Roses or Stromová Für Elise. Place the rose in lukewarm water for half an hour before betting. Then place it in a flower pot with a well-permeable sandy, slightly calcium soil with a large proportion of humus. To avoid overheating the substrate in the container, cover it with a layer of mulch. Place the rose in a sunny place, ideally on the south or southwest side and supply it with regular watering.

Pear

Originally it comes from sunny Sicily and got into our homeland in the 18th century. Since then, it has been one of the most popular garden flowers. Hrachor is a classic “climbing” that can rise to a height of 1.5 to 3 meters, so it needs support to grow. You can place it near the wall or give it a two -meter support to grow, which could boldly crawl. There are plenty of color variations on the market – from dark yellow, white, dark red to lavender. The only drawback is that the fragrant variant of the pea is a annual, so you have to plant it every year. But believe it is worth the effort. House fragrant in one or two seedlings in a pot with medium heavy, nutritious soil with a proportion of lime. If you want the plant to benefit you nicely, you can also throw it a little compost, horn or nettle. You can see the flowers in July and will enjoy you until October.

Garden

It is also called a night virgin and comes from Mexico. It is dotted with colored flowers, which open after noon and smells intolerant in the evening… To make this beauty settled well on your terrace or balcony, it is necessary to give it enough watering, sunshine and clay soil, which he literally loves. Night germinates for several weeks, but don’t worry as soon as they take root, it will bloom (and do society) throughout the summer. Its inflorescence can be supported by fertilizer with a greater proportion of phosphorus.

Guardian

At first glance, it looks like a hybrid of jasmine and rose. Originally it comes from Polynesia, where the locals use it to produce flower necklaces. And not only that… The natives use this plant when dating – one who has a flower behind the right ear is free and therefore open to relationships. Persons with a garden on the left ear are already assigned, so unavailable. If you use this information, it is up to you … Anyway, you can grow Gardenia on the terrace or on the balcony. Although he loves the sun, he sometimes needs to relax from him, so choose a place where part of the day is the shadow. Place the Gardenies in a damp and well -drained soil and give it a regular watering. If you want to put something on the plain, then use the coffee grounds that literally loves. Just spread it to the surface around the stems. Coffee waste will reduce pH in the soil and Gardenia will smell and bloom with bliss.

Chocolate

Do you love sweet? Then this plant is hit by black. As the name suggests, the beauty on warm summer days makes a strange fragrance that resembles dark chocolate… will enchant you with beautiful, red flowers that literally love the sun. Therefore, place it on a sunny habitat, where there is a light shadow during the day. Place the beauty into the containers in the middle of the flower. She will be well in the permeable humous soil with reasonable watering. It is important that you always remove the dry flowers in the beauty and thus support the growth of new ones. Be aware that its intoxicating scent attracts butterflies, so you will be pretty alive on your terrace!

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