Indoor and Outdoor Hanging Planters: Transforming Your Balcony into a Green Oasis
Does your apartment have a balcony ? Whether it's a small outdoor space or a indoor genuine extension of your living area, adding greenery will bring joy, aesthetics, and a natural touch to your daily life. Depending on the available space, you can create true plant displays, arrangements of pots and containers, shrubs, and green or flowering plants. Regardless of the configuration, planters and window boxes can decorate railings and walls. Let's explore together which Hanging Planters to choose for your balcony!
Suspended Beauty: Our Selection of Hanging Planters
While pots, containers, and other planters offer endless possibilities in terms of shapes, sizes, and weights, Hanging Planters have some constraints that need to be considered. However, these won't be obstacles to successfully greening your balcony. Of course, your personal taste in aesthetics will be important when making a choice, but other criteria will also come into play.
Location & Supports
Railings, walls, ceilings - the hanging possibilities will determine the choice of support. For planter suspension, you'll find several devices:
- A rectangular metal support on which a planter of the same shape will rest, all hanging from a railing with long, sturdy hooks.
- An identical device but intended for wall mounting rather than hanging.
- Integrated hanging or straddling systems. In the latter case, the balcony planter won't be suspended but will straddle the balustrade or railing by clipping onto it.
Materials & Styles
While there are many materials for classic planters, not all are suitable for Hanging Planters, mainly due to their weight. Prefer the lightest models:
- Plastic planters are lightweight, easy to clean, and durable.
- Polypropylene has appeared more recently; it's slightly heavier but allows for stunning texture imitations.
- Zinc offers an original and contemporary aesthetic. It's both light and resistant but requires more maintenance.
Jardiland Tip: These three materials tend to store heat strongly. Your plant choice should take this into account, and the watering rhythm of your suspended balcony planter will also be impacted.
Hanging Planters: Elevating Your Balcony Garden
As for style, each material offers beautiful perspectives. Take advantage of the extraordinary range of colors that plastic models offer to compose a joyful and luminous balcony. Match flowering plants with the color of the suspended balcony planter for extra chic and harmony.
Vertical Gardens: Maximizing Space with Hanging Planters
Take advantage of the extraordinary opportunity offered by suspended balcony planters that free up floor space and allow you to create splendid plant displays everywhere, including on tiny balconies!
Plant Selection for Your Hanging Planters
We've seen that the material and color of your suspended balcony planter can interfere with plant choice, but some more technical considerations will also be taken into account.
Constrained Dimensions
Hanging Planters are generally shallow. This is a technical criterion that's important because some green, flowering, or vegetable plants need to root deeply to grow and flourish. But the choice of plants remains very wide.
Suggestions? Mini-cyclamens, succulents, flower bulbs, and annual herbs are all great options for hanging planters.
Caring for Your Hanging Planters: Drainage and Watering Tips
With the choice of a suspended balcony planter, you're assured of a plant decor throughout the year. From the multitude of foliage and flowers that will adorn the beautiful season and some must-haves like the king of balconies, the geranium or pelargonium, winter plantings can also take over with winter heather, some dwarf conifers, and other hellebores. You'll find many tips and ideas through our pages for ever-renewed pleasure.