Silver Medal
The Master Gardener's Balcony offers a blueprint for dedicated gardeners who live in apartments with balconies, demonstrating how abundant gardens can be created in small areas through clever planning and efficient use of space.
By embracing vertical gardening and employing integrated seating and storage, this garden provides room for growing, working, and relaxing, while avoiding over-cluttering floor space. Building upwards with waist-high growing beds, a green wall panel, trellis, and two pergolas, the garden envelopes the balcony space to create a sheltered oasis.
Brimming with softness and movement, the planting scheme includes ferns, grasses, and perennials that provide year-round interest. This practical and efficient design illustrates how you can use widely available materials to create an elevated outdoor space where the plants are the star of the show.
