Current Pics:

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Vines, left: Clematis panticulata, center/right: Cobaea scandens; below the vines: viola priceana, v. sororia, vinca minor, assorted daffodil foliage. Plant on the stand: streptocarpella "concord blue" and a fern whose name I can't think of at the moment. Also pictured: Begonia "Little Brother Montgomery, sedum sarmentosum, bearded iris foliage, senecio "chalky fingers", fern "fluffy ruffles", tuberous begonias, assorted crassulas, begonia toldoleana, sempervivums, Begonia Heron's Pirouette, oxalis, and a ton of other daffodil foliage bits. The chair blocks the rest.

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In the window box that is visible: pineapple mint, taragon, sage. plant on stand already mentioned: streptocarpella "concord blue." Begonia "Little Brother Montgomery, sedum sarmentosum, bearded iris foliage, senecio "chalky fingers", fern "fluffy ruffles", graptopetalum, daffodil foliage, vinca minor, violas sororia and priceana, sedum album, agave paryii, nasturtium Hermine Grashoff, rosemary, tuberous begonias, snowdrop foliage, passiflora incarnata alba, viola labradorica, yellow potato onions, and some balsam starts.

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scindapsus pictus, philodendron scandens, streptocarpella "concord blue", and nephrolysis fluffy ruffles fern

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Sedum sarmentosum blooming, Begonia toldoleana, oxalis

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front to back: oregano, blooming german thyme, nasturtium, lavender, mint

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Mara des bois strawberries with a few stray nasturtiums and cuttings of Blueberries and Cream streptocarpellas

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Nasturtium Hermine Grasshof

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Tradescantia zebrina, spider plant, streptocarpella concord blue, monstera, fluffy ruffles fern, philo scandens, blurry star jasmine in back

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Star jasmine (trachelospermum jasminoides), ostrich ferns, maidenhair ferns, hyacinth foliage, yellow archangel lamium, oriental lilies stargazers, foxgloves, ajuga, lilies of the valley, liriope, saffron foliage, pickwick crocus foliage, lysimachia golden creeping jenny, toad lilies, sedum, callisia fragrans, hawthorias, daffodil foliage, 2 japanese anemones, begonia kellermanii, stachys byzantia, muscari foliage, parma violets

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ostrich ferns, star jasmine, philodendron, stargazers, foxgloves, daffocil foliage, ajuga, japanese anemones

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Star jasmine (trachelospermum jasminoides), ostrich ferns, oriental lilies stargazers, foxgloves, ajuga, lilies of the valley, liriope, saffron foliage, pickwick crocus foliage, lysimachia golden creeping jenny, toad lilies, sedum, callisia fragrans, hawthorias, daffodil foliage, 2 japanese anemones, begonia kellermanii, stachys byzantia, muscari foliage, parma violets, huernia, stapelia, streptocarpella snowflurry, aloes

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blooming foxgloves with lily foliage and star jasmine

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foxglove foliage, blooming ajuga, saffron foliage, tuberose foliage, lycoris radiata foliage, columbine foliage

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saffron foliage, lily fo the valley foliage, toad lilies, callisia fragrans, cutting of a sanseveria, Sedum cape blanco, Sedum Ogon, hawthorias

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Oxalis, begonia heron's pirouette, daffodil foliage, sedum sarmentosum,

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Left: clematis panticulata, center/right cobaea scandens

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Last few weeks-last week:

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Parma violet Comte de Brazza, tuberous begonia foliage and snowdrop foliage

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Daffodil foliage and foxgloves in the background, blooming pickwick crocus, golden creeping jenny, and saginella aurea, hyacinths blooming and yellow archangel lamium; to the side liriope and moss.

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blooming erlicheer daffodils

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erlicheer daffodils

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Robin's nest in my pansies

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Setcreasia and variegated lilies of the valley in a bed of sedum sarmentosum and artemisia silver mound . A lone leaf of begonia lucerna.

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blooming lilies of the valley with crocus and ajuga foliage

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blooming daffodil and western shot; previously not mentioned and visible in this photo are the dragon fruit cuttings and begonia Paul hernandez

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I labeled these before and am getting tired lol.. this is the eastern shot.

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The jasmine is about to burst with hundreds of flowers. Fingers crossed! I also counted 52 strawberries this morning.

OK, last post of the day where I talk to myself. We went out for an afternoon/early evening sit on the balcony after dinner. Quite a nice day! It was in the rare hour around sunset where the balcony sees some sunlight.

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Mara des bois strawberries and hermine Grasshoff nasturtium

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nasturtium

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eastern shot

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nasturtium and the strawberries

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maidenhair fern, lamium, hyacinth foliage

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Ostrich fern, maidenhair fern, liriope

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Sun on the jasmine and foxgloves

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Jasmine buds

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Foxgloves and lilies in the sun

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I can't believe what all you're growing in pots! Very nice. You've given me many good ideas with these photos. Thank you.

You're welcome! I'll be happier when the bulb foliage dies back. It's hiding so many things right now :)

It's AMAZING how many plants you have in such a small space. It's really inspiring!

Hope the thrips aren't from something I sent. Should I be checking something?

Ha! It's disorganized :P

Oh no, this didn't come from you. i discovered it on a lysimachia I got from San Fransisco. It was small and segregated from everything else, and so even the stuff i sent you will be fine as they were never in the same pot or even on the same side of the balcony. :)

Cool, I was worried something of mine had those & I'd sent it unknowingly. Everything's outside now, so it's up to nature at this point...

Yeah. It can happen! I am hoping a good few blasts of water will solve this. :)

Oh my! It amazing how many kinds of plants you have in there and they all look so beautiful! Love the pictures in the evening sun. Especially of the Nasturtium! btw what is that cute little plant that looks like tiny roses in 14th pic from top ?
Could you please post their names so newbies like me will know what we are looking at, thanks!!

The silver succulent? The label is actually in the photo :) That is Sedum "Cape Blanco."

Did you want the names of all the plants in the photos or just that particular one? :)

WOW, your balcony is beautiful with all you have growing. Right now we are hovering at 32, the last 2 nights I had to drag so much into my living room, poor plants dont know what to do. I can only hope my plants will do as well as yours if it ever warms up here....

We had that kind of a spring too! Very annoying. Things are about a month behind. :/ On the bright side, it's been cooler than it could be and I like that.

:D dawww...! It looks so cute! I used to have a necklace in jade that looked like that plant!

Could you please post all of them? I know a few in them, the nasturtium and the oxalis , I think. I would really appreciate it. thanks. You could edit the post and add the name under each pic. Thanks a lot. They look so lovely. I only wish my terrace garden was half as pretty.

Julianna, either I mistook your balcony as being moderately sized at best when you had 2000 sq ft out there, or you had somehow managed your space better than any other situation! :-)

Everything looks gorgeous.
I tinker all day long it's ridiculous. My BF constantly tells me that I do not have enough space or plants to explain how long I can be outside with them constantly doing something, lol.

Spring does feel like it's finally here. Knowing us, we will have one week and go straight into summer. I'll be cursing soon.

Grace

Wow, great job!

Archoo-- I labeled everything visible at least once now. I got kind fo tired and lost my attention span after 30minutes so if I had already labeled it, and I thought it was clear-- like those same shots from the same directions, I just kind of left them.

Schnookable-- thanks!

Grace-- my balcony is 4ftx12ft. So it's kind of narrow and not really very long too lol. My husband also has no idea why I spend so much time outside. Today I constructed some bamboo and wire ladder trellises which I suspended from the ceiling because my cobaea is going nuts and needs more to climb on. I swear I also went around and snipped each singular dead leaf. I am also afraid spring will leave soon :(

Thank you thank you thank you! I know it must ve have taken a LOT of time! Thanks again! Your terrace garden is amazing!! Soooo many plants! Gorgeous! please do post more pics soon once the strawberries are ripe!

Ha! Well I didn't label things which are there but you can't see. I figured that would be counter productive lol.

These are some shots of my new trellises...

and Hermine Grashoff.

Wow, everything looks so lush and beautiful! You are SO far ahead of me. I can't blame it all on the weather though... When the weather was ready, I wasn't. I began putting things in their final pots Saturday, and thought I would be done Sunday...I wasn't... far from it! Amongst other things, I found out, that the cat litter I'm trying out as a putting medium, needs to be washed THOROUGHLY! That alone takes some time! If only I had been able to get things finished up a month ago, things would have been much healthier out there, than they are now! On the plus side, I'll have a lot less to do next year!
I bet a lot of other things are blooming for you by now, am I right?

VG

I'll post a few new pics. I don't have a ton of blooms at the moment. But I do have a few!

And a brief shot of the other direction. jasmine is blooming now!

The jasmine is really pretty! I wouldn't mind a whiff of the scent - but I guess scratch-and-sniff screens are not in the cards for some time to come.
The fern looks really cool too! -The other day, I was just about to throw out some stuff from a window box, that had been overgrown with weeds (after salvaging a few samples of what I wanted to keep of course), when I noticed a tiny little fern seedling in there. It must have come with the wind or a bird or something, as I have never grown ferns myself. -Do you have any recommendations? -I don't know what kind it is of course, but I'm hoping it's cold hardy, and not just something from someone's house fern! -It COULD be the same kind as yours. For now, I have just planted it with the morning glories as my guess was, not to use too much fertilizer.

VG

I forgot to show how high the cobaea is lol.

Well, the fern I most recently posted is a North American native-- Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris). They tolerate some sun and love to be in wet conditions, spreading by runners and spores. I say yeah, just do not fertilize too much and see what you get!

julianna, your balcony is so nice, you've done a wonderful job.
Christine

Thanks!