Tips & Inspirations Verdeia

Sun, pot, potting soil, watering, pruning, winter: everything you need to grow an olive tree in a pot on a balcony or terrace, and keep it thriving for years.

Bloodgood, Garnet, Orange Dream, Sangokaku: choosing your Japanese maple, growing it in a pot on a balcony or terrace, watering it, pruning it and getting it through winter.

Freezing pots, exposed roots, icy wind: how to protect your balcony plants in winter, which ones to bring indoors and which keep the balcony alive.

Lemon, fig, apple, blueberry: which fruit trees to grow in pots on a balcony, which pot to choose and how to get them to bear fruit.

Bamboo, climbing plants, evergreen shrubs: create a living privacy screen on a balcony or terrace, choose the plants and planters, and care for it properly.

Star jasmine, clematis, wisteria, ivy: which climbing plant to choose based on balcony exposure, what pot and support to provide, and how to care for it.

Variegated, pink, silver, or patterned: how to choose a plant with colorful foliage, give it the right light, and keep its colors intact.

Star jasmine, honeysuckle, Armand clematis, lavender, citrus plants, rosemary: our selection of fragrant plants for the balcony and home.

Light, watering, soil: everything you need to successfully grow your indoor cacti and succulents, and to stop confusing desert cacti, forest cacti, and euphorbias.

Moss pole, trellis, or hoop: which support to choose for each indoor climbing plant, how to install it, and how to train the stems without breaking them.

Anthurium, Spathiphyllum, Kalanchoe, Cyclamen: how to combine a few flowering indoor plants to have flowers all year round.

Coffee grounds, banana peels, eggshells: fact versus fiction about homemade fertilizers, and the three actions that genuinely nourish your plants.