Gardening tips: Want a lush balcony, terrace garden with planters?

Moneycontrol News | August 6, 2024

Investing in planters for a balcony or terrace garden during the monsoon season can be a delightful way to enhance your home's aesthetic and uplift your mood

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You can create your own green oasis in your living space by investing in planters of various sizes and vibrant colours. Perfect for herbs, succulents, and smaller flowers, mutli-coloured planters can be used to fill in gaps and add variety

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Unique and artistic planter designs serve as focal points in gardens, indoor balcony deck or terrace garden. By including some flower and ornamental plants, you can easily enhance the colour-factor and create eye-calming visuals

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Planters can be selected in various sizes with designs in geometrical, planter boxes, cylindrical or water garden planters as per the balcony, terrace garden, courtyard, indoor spaces and hallways

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Large planters and bright colours are a  big yes for terrace spaces. Look for planters in materials like ceramic, concrete, FRP, terracotta, steel, etc

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There are plenty of ways and places to arrange your planters. Start with the basics like cluster placing, which requires planters with various sizes, arrange them in an ascending or descending order to give a symmetrical look

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You can also jumble across the sizes to create a disrupted look. In ‘Uniform placing’, you can put all the same sized planters in a straight line with equal space between each one

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To make a bold statement, place a large statement planter and surround it with small planters to create a bold statement, highlighting the large planter

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Place your planters in a spot where there is minimal decoration or else there is a chance that the planters in an overly stuffed room can make it look congested

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Go for colours with an earthy palette, bright tones or classic black and white in surface finishes like matte, glossy, concrete, rustic, marble, terracotta etc

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Colours like browns, terracotta,  grays, green etc. can be incorporated to keep the colour scheme in synch with the theme of the house

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