Summer containers 2021/2022 ideas?

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    I've never grown these before! They look very nice! I've taken note of the name as I might try & get some seeds to grow on the balcony.
     
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    Last year my son took me to a garden nursery to let me choose some plants as a birthday present. Among the plants I got were some Calibrachoas. I'd seen them in a hanging basket in his garden the year before & I liked them very much. So I got enough plants to put in the 5 hanging baskets I have at the front of the balcony.

    Calibrachoa 'Can-Can Double OrangeTastic' just bought 14th May 2021.jpg Calibrachoa 'Chameleon Double Pink Yellow' just bought 14th May 2021.jpg Calibrachoa 'Can-Can Double OrangeTastic' & 'Chameleon Atomic Orange' just bought 14th May 2021.jpg Calibrachoa 'Chameleon Atomic Orange' just bought 14th May 2021.jpg Calibrachoa 'Starlight Blue' just bought 14th May 2021 002.jpg Calibrachoa 'Noa Sunlight' just bought 14th May 2021.jpg Calibrachoa 'Starlight Blue' just bought 14th May 2021.jpg Calibrachoa 'Noa Dark Pink Carnival' just bought 14th May 2021.jpg
     
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      I'll see about getting some more for the hanging baskets again this year as I liked them very much! Being self-cleaning also means I don't need to risk life & limb climbing up on a chair to deadhead them from time to time! :thumbsup::smile:
       
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        What are other balcony gardeners putting in their balconies this summer? :what:
         
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        Ooh, I love the Orange ones. I am into Pink and Orange together at the moment. Sadly here you don't often get named things.
         
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          Hanging baskets on balcony 15th July 2021 003.jpg
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          Hanging baskets on balcony 15th July 2021 001.jpg Here are some photos of the baskets when they were probably at their best in the middle of July 2021.
           
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            Are you in Portugal?
             
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            Yes, I am, in rainy Algarve. :biggrin: Been here 21 years.
             
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              I see the photos have come out as thumbnails! But I clicked on insert full image!:what:
               
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              One year longer than we have been in this flat in the UK!
               
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              Go back in and Edit to full size.
               
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                Possibly because I used the Quick reply?
                 
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                Thanks! I did that & now they are full size! :ThankYou:
                 
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                  Victoria, do you garden on a balcony? I lived in the centre of Spain for many years & it was there I learnt to garden in the restricted space of a balcony!
                   
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                  The flat we lived in for 13 years had two balconies; one open, & in the kitchen, which looked out onto an enormous interior patio, one, enclosed at both ends, & in the living room, looking out over the street. It was on the 5th floor of the block we lived in.
                   
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