Thing are going well on the balcony. A few of the plants aren't growing well, but I still have a lot of plants that are, so no worries there. The Bluehead gilia has started to bloom and I'm going to take close-ups on them as soon as the light conditions are right.

Things have been going well so far. All flowers are in their final locations now. Out of the eight sunflowers I cultivated I have given away five. So only three are left on my balcony.

The two boxes on the floor contains Chrysanthemum greens and Bluehead gilia mixed together. The tree pots up against the wall contains the three sunflowers. The hanging box to the right contains the Buck Bay vygie. The big pot contains the Clematis I received for my birthday last year. I'm happy it survived the winter.

We choose to "plant" some fake grass in the balcony box this year. Our dog Simpson likes to stand there and watch, so we didn't want to place anything there that would block his view.

The Rhubarb has survived yet another winter. This winter I for the first time let it stand out on the balcony. Looks like I made a good decision. It looks better than ever.

Things has been growing this week. Both indoors and outdoors. But a lot more indoors. The Sunflowers kicked it off strong as usual while the other three has just sprouted.

The Sunflowers

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My Summer project 2011 has kicked off. This year I'm scaling it down a bit and only cultivating 4 different flowers. They are Sunflowers (yellow instead of red this time), Buck Bay vygie, Chrysanthemum greens and Bluehead gilia.

As you can see I have chosen to cultivate both indoors and outdoors this year. Indoors I'm cultivating the Sunflowers and the Buck Bay vygie. Outdoors I keep the Chrysanthemum greens and Bluehead gilia. Cultivating the flowers outdoors is a bit of an experiment I'm doing. I'm not sure if it is too early or not for outdoors cultivation. Hopefully they will grow.