It’s always a pleasure to buy flowers or receive them to brighten up a day a little more. For the more hands-on, you can always plant your own flowers and beautify your garden or balcony. Whether it’s cut flowers or small flowering shrubs, it’s time to put your gloves back on and plant the most beautiful flowers that will adorn your exterior. On this occasion, lilac is the flower that will attract the curiosity of all your neighbors.
With all the conditions in place for optimal flowering, a flowering plant stands out more than the rest. It’s lilac. This plant with purple flowers will enchant the most beautiful window sills or balconies.
Lilac, This Essential Plant for Your Balcony
Lilac is a plant rich in history. Native to South-Eastern Europe and Western Asia, the common lilac exists in around thirty varieties and is very resistant. Often seen in parma, lilac can be pink, blue, white or in different shades of purple. When it flowers, it diffuses its intoxicating fragrance with fresh, fruity scents with some notes of musk. This magnificent plant easily perfumes all the places it inhabits.
It will cover the floor of your balcony or the sill of your window with its large heart-shaped leaves. Also its star-shaped flowers will delight the most curious and will beautify all balconies and windows in accordance with the season. Lilac will be perfectly appreciated through its different colors ranging from white to blue through purple. It is synonymous with the renewal of nature and rings the first stirrings of love. This plant variety is solitary. It will offer you its most beautiful flowers if it does not have other species of plants alongside it.
How to plant lilac?
If your greatest pleasure is going to the florist to buy yourself a bouquet of flowers, the weather is lilac. While the flowers are in bloom, the lilac is the perfect plant to choose to accompany your windowsill. It will flower much better under the sun in your garden or balcony rather than indoors.
This small shrub requires very little maintenance and is easy to grow. As a bouquet, it is advisable to transport it in a damp cloth. Then crush the stems using a hammer to promote water absorption and put it directly in a vase. Finally, put the vase in a cool place away from the sun and then prune the stems every three days.
If you have a green thumb, you can always plant lilacs all year round. For this, your exterior must be in full sun because this plant appreciates very sunny environments unlike lilacs in bouquets. To plant lilacs properly, the soil must be rich in limestone and well drained. You must choose soil that is not too compact. You can thus mix the soil you use by reinforcing it with potting soil. Once planted, it requires very little maintenance.
It must be watered when the soil is dry until September, then it will be enough to put a handful of fertilizer at the base of the lilac to maintain it during the winter periods.
This shrub can reach up to seven meters if it flowers correctly. The lilac will suit all types of balconies due to its variety of sizes and its very abundant flowering. You don’t have to be an expert gardener to properly care for your lilacs. You just need to water them regularly for the first two years so that the lilac takes deep roots.
