If the summer flowers have faded (or were not planted at all due to lack of time), you could now plant your balcony and terrace in autumn in such a way that you can create a foundation that will last for years with little care. Which can then be redecorated again and again with little effort, ideas for autumn decoration and winter decoration are included:
The basis: autumn and winter plants for balconies and terraces
A we alth of perennials bloom well into winter, anemones and asters, Christmas roses and chrysanthemums, monkshood and sedum, fuchsias and daisies, goldenrods and heathers, autumn daisies and bluebells, sweet candles, sunflowers and saxifrages, all have varieties which bloom until late into autumn and which are presented in the further articles about autumn planting for balconies and terraces with precise information about the autumn-flowering cultivars. These flowers bloom not only in the classic fall colors, but in almost every color imaginable, including the color that determines your home decor. For an easy-care basic plant, you could choose a variety in colors that harmonize with your home decor. Or to contrast, or your living room decoration can use colorful additions, then choose a plant that has cultivars that bloom in many different colors. You can then find out more about the needs of this plant and provide it with the perfect environment and care. Which never gets super complicated, if there's one thing to do, it's to do the same thing all over the balcony. Such work quickly becomes automatic and can be completed in welcome breaks. Whether the base planting was designed in one color, you planted a gradient or colorful contrasting colors - the right decoration makes this base appear noble or romantic, a little unusual or really flashy:
Special autumn decorations and winter decorations
The commercially available autumn decorations are diverse and will be available in stores from August at the latest, the winter decorations are just as diverse and will be available in stores from September at the latest. Of course, it's always full of the latest trends - after all, it's all about selling trendy items. If you search for fall decorations on an online video platform, you will find 18,700 videos presenting the trendy decorative items of the year. The advertisers receive money for this (possibly prohibited surreptitious) advertising; you pay for this advertising when you purchase the item. There are even trade fairs for the decorative trend items of the year, then you can find these trend items in the hardware store and in the flower discounter and in the bargain market, you don't need to read a separate article about them; and if the season's trendy items weren't indispensable and there weren't new ones every season, you might come up with the idea of coming up with a sustainable decoration that you'll like for many years.
You can anyway, more on that below, and if you don't have time for ideas, you can also go other ways when purchasing your decorative items than buying the “mass-produced seasonal items”:
- Buy transparent hollow polystyrene balls at the hobby shop
- With a diameter of 10 cm, 50 pieces cost around €50, but you don't get many trendy decorative items for that
- They can be filled with any small material that looks beautiful, from autumn leaves to dried flowers
- At Christmas they are filled with glitter stuff and all the little things that you can hang on the Christmas tree
- You can distribute these balls anywhere on the balcony and terrace, even in the flower pots
- The balls also have a hanger
- You can tie autumnal wreaths out of Pedding cane
- You can weave a few small baskets/bowls
- So high that simple grave candles fit inside
- They shimmer through slightly and protect the flame, a quick and elegant decoration
The number of words in an article is limited, the possibilities are endless: look around your town, in small galleries, at markets, in farm shops or other small shops there is decoration outside the mainstream; First look at the last pages of the search engine results if you are looking for handicrafts, home accessories, decoration related to handmade, handmade, unique, etc. Pay attention to publications in local newspapers, notices, etc. that point out all the small shops, clubs, organizations that are too young, too small, not financially strong enough to place their offers at the front of the projection screens of the advertising cosmos, which is one big one Part of our everyday life “beautified”.
DIY, SM is in
Uninspired consumerism is out, DIY=do-it-yourself or SM=do-it-yourself (not sado-maso, although that has also become quite in since being inundated by fifty shades of gray) is in vogue. Among the 18,700 video tips online there are also some for making yourself, but not really for making yourself - as one of the sales stars aptly put it, it's more about buying lots of commercial products in order to be "inspired" by them “. In 2015, candles are expected to be the trend items in large numbers: in decorated glasses, in glasses on trays with jewelry around them, in tree trunks, in wire frames, on a crocheted rug, on special autumnal plastic sets. The magical young lady in the video knows Yankee Candles (in a glass), Colony Candles (also in a glass, just several of them), For Everybody Candles (also in a glass, there is probably a difference) and Bath and Bodywork -Candles (also in glass, probably with artificial flavor); and if you didn't know about them before, this educational gap is now finally closed.
She has recently become familiar with a French company and their many candles. In the video, she carefully reads out the entire long product description of the candles to us. A lot of material, because there are mini scented candles, votive candles, scented candles with wooden wicks, three-scented candles, aroma candles, Bomb Cosmetics scented candles, Colony Wax Lyricals, Greenleaf candles, Gourmet scented candles, Lanolin scented candles, Old Williamsburgh Candles, Shearer Candles, massage candles (how to make who that?), scented melts, tarts and winter scented candles, you can fill the terrace with them.
If you can inspire yourself through your own thinking and can read for yourself, you don't necessarily need these trend videos and trend suggestions (dictations). Maybe you don't even care what's trending because you like to set your own trends. In this case you don't really need any information in terms of creativity, nor do you need to spend €10 + €6.95 shipping on one of these candles, but make 100 tea lights for €3.15 or 30 scented tea lights for €1. 99 € on a tray.
The table is decorated with this, but lighting the candles all around and supervising it wouldn't be fun anymore. So here are a few more comfortable ideas for replicating the latest decorating trends:
- You could purchase waterproof LED tea lights to place between fall plantings.
- Or decorate the balcony box/pot with an outdoor string of lights, both are available in many colors
- Cake toppers, copper tubes bent into figures and lettering that go on the cake are trendy in another area
- But it costs a good €30, you can make it yourself, made of copper pipe but only with special instructions, it's not that easy to bend
- Made of a transparent round tube that you can fill with anything, glittering, shining
- Or made of semi-transparent plastic round cord in neon colors, which also fluoresces
- Or made from Pedding cane, the completely natural version
- A few simple figures are quickly bent and quickly attached to a ground anchor and put into the balcony box/pot
- They are decorated for autumn with a tendril that you make yourself from maple leaves, yarn and natural fiber cord
- It will be Christmassy with red ribbon and decorative pendants depending on your wishes and taste
Planting and decorating Christmas happiness for children
You can easily make life unforgettable for smaller children by cleverly combining unusual plants with ordinary decorations:
- Plant tree jockey trees (Dermatobotrys saundersii), they will produce their amazing and eye-catching red flowers until December. With tinsel in dark red, it's unusually beautiful even for adults. If it gets significantly colder than minus 5 °C, the tree jockeys have to stay in overnight.
- The carpet berry (Gaultheria procumbens) can withstand more cold, and at Christmas it also has bright red berries and dark red foliage that tends slightly towards violet, with decorations in pink, red, purple (bows or tinsel) a real hit for smaller kids.
- Cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) also offer red berries as Christmas decorations that scream golden tinsel in color, and you can definitely store lots of colorful Christmas tree pendants in the “bushes”. Tree jockey and cranberry produce edible fruits after flowering, and the carpet berry is not poisonous either, it just doesn't taste good.
The decoration trend announced at this year's trade fairs wants to replace Christmas decorations with winter decorations that decorate the home from the beginning of November to the end of January, including extending the sales period for the corresponding accessories. For trend aficionados (trend victims) the entry into a long period of unbridled consumption, exciting retailtainment (purchasing experience) in elaborately styled PoS (points of sale=stores); Anyone who experiences enough in life can do without it. The best winter decoration is and remains certainly beautiful white snow, especially since we seem to have white Christmases less and less often (which is not true, “a white Christmas on average every 7 to 10 years” has been what the statistics have been saying since weather records began, but it is felt and it stays that way). When in doubt, decorative snow helps, and if you don't want to cloud yourself and your offspring with unknown substances, make your own decorative snow:
- Paintable decorative snow is made from bird sand (chinchilla sand) and white wall paint
- Decorative snow that sticks to smooth surfaces can also be made from white tinting paint and sugar
- While this snow dries, you can place all sorts of finely divided decorative materials in/on it
- Coconut flakes in egg white glue + powdered sugar are dried into white snow
- If no one will lick the decorated material/object/plant, shaving foam will also produce a realistic ice-snow crust
- 7, 5 g of sodium polyacrylate (this is what absorbs into diapers, you can order it in pharmacies) + 180 ml of water should become artificial snow
Conclusion
For autumn and winter on the balcony and terrace, you can create a planting with minimal effort that will last for several years and can be changed again and again with decorations. There are many individual options for decoration, very quick and mostly purchased and very artistic ones that are made yourself.
