Hello everyone,
I live in an apartment building in the midwest. Like many people, I get the blues when the sun isn't out as often. But I also get the blues because the landscape changes drastically.
Every year I have a potted garden on my balcony that faces south. Is there any way to cover the balcony? Is there any sort of covering I can purchase and attach to the balcony so that I can enclose it? Perhaps some sort of substance that blocks the extreme cold and can be hammered into the wood?
I have a gorgeous mandevilla that I got at the end of spring. It was a tiny, flowering plant and has since grown like crazy and has wrapped itself around anything and everything it can find. If I can't somehow enclose my back porch, then I'm going to have to take the mandevilla indoors. Any suggestions for what to do with it? I will have to untangle it and then what do I do when I bring it indoors?
I'm half-tempted to load up a moving truck and take my garden west and leave it with friends for the winter....
I intend to move within the year.
Thanks for any input and sorry for my lack of knowledge.