Watch your balcony blossom!

July 20th, 2009  |  Published in Living, Nature & Wildlife, Projects  |  17 Comments

A few adven­tur­ous and cre­ative friends have got­ten together to bring some sun­shine into your oth­er­wise ignored or empty bal­cony or terrace! 

The folks at My Sunny Bal­cony (MSB) can sug­gest how to trans­form an empty for­lorn space into a ver­i­ta­ble green heaven…

I was sur­prised when I walked in to Aqua’s house on Sun­day after the MSB folks worked their won­ders. Her out­side gar­den space which had one plant and a few peb­bles around it had under­gone a com­plete makeover and looked like a mil­lion dollars!

Com­plete with the sound of sooth­ing water, a herb gar­den and beau­ti­ful ter­ra­cotta pots, it was quite a sight. Aqua and I stared at her “green” space for the longest time and plans are now afoot to get a bench just in the right spot from where one can stare out into the gar­den! It’s amaz­ing how ther­a­peu­tic a lit­tle green in your life can be :-)

So, folks : if you have a bal­cony going to waste and look­ing utterly dejected : all you have to do is call up the folks at My Sunny Bal­cony. Most of us liv­ing in flats have this expe­ri­ence of let­ting our bal­conies turn into stor­age spaces or worse still, lie empty. 

This is what the team has to say: “Any space that receives even a lit­tle bit of sun­light is a poten­tial MySun­ny­Bal­cony space: A tiny unus­able patch out­side your front door, an ugly ter­race on your roof, or even a back bal­cony in your high rise apart­ment. It doesn’t mat­ter how high up or small your space is, we’ll work with it. We’ll also tell you what you can do and what you can’t. You’ll be sur­prised at the immense num­ber of green pos­si­bil­i­ties that even a tiny amount of space can hold!”

More in their words: “Wel­come to MySun­ny­Bal­cony! We’re a group of gar­den enthu­si­asts ded­i­cated to cre­at­ing cus­tomized land­scapes for urban envi­ron­ments. With almost no space left in the city for home gar­dens, we’ve decided to take our gar­dens up the ele­va­tor and into your bal­conies and ter­races. We do con­cept gar­dens, designer bal­conies and ter­rific ter­races. We have a host of theme bal­conies to choose from, based on your lifestyle and inter­ests. Just tell us what you want and we’ll try and make it pos­si­ble for you. A lit­tle herb or veg­gie patch that looks as fab­u­lous as it tastes? Sure! A sunny spot with flow­ers burst­ing out from every cor­ner? Why not? Or per­haps a tran­quil zen-style space to con­tem­plate in? With a quiet foun­tain gur­gling away in the back­ground? You got it!”

Athreya, Reena, Shailesh and Sri­ram : the four­some who have started this unique ini­tia­tive are very hands on : they will come by and pro­vide you with what you need to do to get a super look­ing bal­cony in a jiffy! And they still do every­thing them­selves : so this is the right time to catch them : before they become famous and have assis­tants doing the work :-)

And it won’t be long before that hap­pens : they’ve already been cov­ered in DNA, 080 and other news­pa­per articles. 

This is a labour of love for these guys and the stun­ning makeovers they already cre­ated are tes­ti­mony to the hard work they put in so that your space looks like a mil­lion dollars!

More:
– My Sunny Bal­cony
– Con­tact them on: info@mysunnybalcony.com

Once you’ve tasted the joys of a con­cept gar­den, a sunny bal­cony or a designer ter­race — you’ll never go back to your empty space again!

Responses

1. Paavani says:
   

   July 20th, 2009 at 5:39 pm (#)

   Fan­tas­tic work done!

   Is MSB in Delhi NCR too? They do give tips also on– how to main­tain afterwards?

2. Twilight fairy says:
   

   July 20th, 2009 at 6:11 pm (#)

   paa­vani has already asked exactly wat i wanted to. i doubt these ppl are in NCR Tho :\

3. Jayadeep Purushothaman says:
   

   July 21st, 2009 at 8:20 am (#)

   It was just last week­end that we attended a ter­race gar­den­ing work­shop by AME foun­da­tion (http://www.amefound.org/) and it was amaz­ing one can do in bal­conies and ter­races how­ever small it may be. Though this was more on veg­etable gar­den­ing, prin­ci­ples apply for all kinds of plants I guess. And you don’t really need pots to get going — they showed some neat tricks(using plas­tic bags and stuff we throw away) on con­tain­ers that could be used. So I am on the look­out for soil to get started.

4. Prathima says:
   

   July 21st, 2009 at 9:45 am (#)

   Good job Reena, Athreya and.….??

5. anita says:
   

   July 21st, 2009 at 12:08 pm (#)

   @ paa­vani: no branches yet! but i am sure they can once they’ve expanded! :-)

   @ priyanka: yeah, they’re in ban­ga­lore right now!

   @ jayadeep: you will get soil in any of those plant ven­dors on the side of the road. last week i picked it up from adugodi, near the cemetery! 

   @ prathima: reena, athreya, sri­ram and shailesh!

6. Yuva says:
   

   July 21st, 2009 at 2:48 pm (#)

   awe­some.. I wish i had that inter­est & energy. I walk to neigh­bors bal­cony to take photos..

7. Nidarshana says:
   

   July 21st, 2009 at 3:39 pm (#)

   That was a refresh­ing read. :)

   But here I am stuck in a dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tion. I have a huge bal­cony and to throw in some green, I got pots, soil, manure and two plants, to start with. Next morn­ing I see the plant chewed into bits and the soil dug out. Guess, our Boom (1 1/2 yr lab) doesn’t want space wasted on greens, as yet. Sigh!

8. Anuradha says:
   

   July 22nd, 2009 at 6:15 pm (#)

   After shift­ing to Gur­gaon, in last 3–4 months I have devel­oped a com­plete kitchen gar­den and now we eat most of the times from our gar­den. Have planted lots of trees and its such a plea­sure to look at them every now and then and see them grow. You can add some food and water bowls to your bal­cony and you would attract whole lot of birds, par­tic­u­larly in the early mornings.

9. reena says:
   

   July 22nd, 2009 at 8:58 pm (#)

   thanks, anita!

   thanks, all :)

   rEEna

10. Ms.N says:
    

    July 23rd, 2009 at 10:55 am (#)

    hey — nice story. very inter­est­ing con­cept from the tra­di­tional las­nd­scap­ing big wigs…

11. Radman says:
    

    July 25th, 2009 at 4:27 am (#)

    This is wonderful..

12. Sukanya Bora says:
    

    July 28th, 2009 at 8:04 pm (#)

    what a bril­liant idea…!! best of luck to these guys and kudos to you for bring­ing them to the forefront.

13. Sonia says:
    

    August 4th, 2009 at 7:47 pm (#)

    Amaz­ing !! :-) Anita would you know if they con­duct work­shops as well??

14. vasu says:
    

    August 28th, 2009 at 11:17 pm (#)

    Vow!!!

    I was think­ing of some­thing like this.. I like the veg­etable / herb gar­den idea and not just flow­ers… won­der­ing what’s the impact on all this on mos­qui­toes.. Do they increase ?

    I really hate mosquitoes… 

    any­wayz.. really nice idea and all the very best.. will def­i­nitely take up their help when I return back to bgl..

    Thanks anita for this.

    vasu

15. Nlhar says:
    

    August 30th, 2009 at 2:03 pm (#)

    hii Anita..

    its an amaz­ing idea to make your liv­ing place so beau­ti­ful.. and the pho­tos are damn good :):)

    refresh­ing read:)

    Nlhar

16. Alejandra Fitzsimons says:
    

    September 20th, 2009 at 6:23 am (#)

    Great job guys. Def­i­nitely could use some advice.. where can I send pictures?

17. deepak says:
    

    October 7th, 2009 at 6:29 pm (#)

    Hi,

    I have a rear bal­cony with ter­ri­ble view. I don’t know how to block the view with­out com­rp­mis­ing on the light and air. It is based on south west and is a com­bined bal­cony for my two bed rooms.

    Please sug­gest!

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