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creating your perfect urban garden
Living in the confi nes of an inner city apartment
doesn’t mean you have to forego the fl ora. We look at a
few different ways to bring the outdoors in.
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Even the smallest scrap of space can be it’s important to keep them in the appropriately you go for something that fi ts well with the styles
transformed into a garden, and there are ample sized container, since the roots are around the and colours already in your home. Terracotta pots
opportunities even if you’ve got a tiny patio or same size as the plant. Tulips, daffodils and and wooden planters will co-ordinate well with most
balcony. Hanging baskets are quite easy to make agapanthus fl owers in dwarf size are great for small styles, but you can use almost anything as a plant
and maintain, and you can hang them pretty containers, and these will reappear annually to container, even a whiskey bottle wouldn’t go amiss.
much anywhere. You can buy pre-prepared provide long-lasting colour because they are grown
baskets, and once you’ve made sure the basket is from bulbs. Lantana is an expensive choice but Orchids grow well indoors because of their tropical
lined properly, simply fi ll two thirds of it with soil looks great in an urban garden, as it changes colour origins; they survive through different heat and
and add a layer of plants. Fuschias are ideal and as it grows throughout each season. moisture conditions but don’t put them near a
pansies and ivys also work well. While you’re at it, radiator. And if you’re a culinary queen, you might
you can use similar green-fi ngered techniques to Up the wall like to grow some citrus plants or herbs, such as
make a window box, which makes a pretty addition If you’ve got some external wall space, you can potted basil, sage or rosemary.
to your outside brighten it up by adding a few wall plants – English
windowsill. Just ivy takes nicely to a brick wall. If you’ve got space If you have a tall ceiling but narrow spaces, the
make sure you for a small tree, then Japanese maple (acer) is a shade tolerant South African native afrocarpus
avoid watering the good option, as it grows well in a small area and falcate is a good choice. If you have lots of wall
plants while innocent tolerates the shade. If you’ve got roof access space, you could put up some shelves to house
pedestrians walk and you’re feeling really creative, then you could a collection of succulents and cacti, that hardly
beneath them! consider growing a grass roof! ever need to be watered. Pincushion cacti are low
maintenance, and have intriguing strange hair-like
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