In the heart of Ham­burg, Patri­cia Bobak first tur­ned a shady north-facing bal­c­o­ny into a vege­ta­ble gar­den in 2023, which was enri­ched with many nati­ve peren­ni­als and small struc­tures such as a water trough, nes­t­ing aid and dead­wood in 2024. Cove­ring just 2.4 squa­re meters, the bal­c­o­ny blooms from March into the sum­mer, making it a model pro­ject for anyo­ne who wants to plant a north-facing bal­c­o­ny. Bet­ween gar­lic rocket, pur­ple loo­sestri­fe and red fox­glove, the small bal­c­o­ny can just about be wal­ked on, giving it a tru­ly enchan­ted, wild cha­rac­ter. Patri­cia docu­men­ted the deve­lo­p­ment for the „Deutsch­land summt“ 2024 plan­ting com­pe­ti­ti­on and won 2nd place in the „Bal­co­nies, ter­races, roof gar­dens, ver­ti­cal gar­dens“ cate­go­ry. The topic of natu­re and sus­taina­bi­li­ty is also clo­se to her heart pro­fes­sio­nal­ly, as she works as a free­lan­ce copy­wri­ter in the field of sus­taina­bi­li­ty, among other things. On her blog „Nord­bal­kon­lie­be“, she regu­lar­ly wri­tes about her north-facing bal­c­o­ny and gives prac­ti­cal tips on gar­dening in the sha­de in the smal­lest of spaces.

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Patri­cia uses beau­tiful pho­tos to show the deve­lo­p­ment of her tiny north-facing bal­c­o­ny and gives good tips to inspi­re peo­p­le to green even sup­po­sedly dif­fi­cult north-facing are­as and make them bloom. Even in her first year, she had ama­zing and char­ming ani­mal visi­tors thanks to the use of main­ly nati­ve plants. Here you can get good tips on plan­ning, struc­tures, favo­ri­te plants and com­bi­na­ti­ons for loca­ti­ons with poor light con­di­ti­ons, which are also pos­si­ble on south, east and west-facing bal­co­nies. Unbe­lie­va­ble how quick­ly Patri­cia got her north-facing bal­c­o­ny to bloom! Unbe­lie­va­ble what ani­mals came to visit! You will be ama­zed. Every meter counts!