A very late blog post as the sunflower bloomed weeks ago. Haven't had the time/energy to update the blog until now.

A little smaller and paler than what I had hopped for. I guess I picked the wrong kind of sunflower when selected which seed bag to pick.

The Buck bay vygie has started to bloom with full force. I say with full force because of the intensity of the colors on the flowers. It almost hurts my eyes to look at them in real life (in a good way that is). I will probably post more photos on the flowers in a later post.

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These two were the first one of the new flowers to bloom this year. So they get to share a blog post.

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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.

One of my ongoing project in Minecraft is digging a very large hole. I thought it would be nice to have a "above ground" base close to the bedrock. Also it's a good project to have for the times when I want to chill down and do something simple. Below is my progress so far. It might take a while before I'm finished.

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.

The red sunflowers called Red Sun were amongst the flower I really wanted to see bloom this year. I have cultivated a few of them before. I did it during my first year in the apartment. I think the flowers looks awesome. They almost looks like they have been painted. The reason I didn't cultivated them the other years, is because they grow so tall. I felt they wouldn't have a place to look good on. But this year I knew they would look good behind all the other flowers.

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The Painted Daisy plants are back in full force on my balcony. The plants are blooming with several flowers and I'm very happy that I choose to have them again on my balcony.

The Scarlet Sage plants have really turned out really well. I knew they would give me bright red flowers, but didn't know they would give me so many. They are a delight to have on my balcony and I currently feel that I would like to have them on my balcony again next year.

The Clematis was a birthday gift I received this year. I was glad when I received it and I'm even more happy over it now. It has really added much color to my balcony and as a bonus it added it on a height that none of my other flowers could reach.

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Jasmine tobacco is a favorite flower. They have every year (this being the third year) given me great results. This year I was a little anxious over their development, they were growing very slowly. But during July they grow a lot and produced many colorful flowers. The plan was to have white and dark purple one, but it seems that the seed bag with dark purple one contained various colors, because now I also have pink and green flowers. Luckily I like lots of colors so the end result looks great my eyes even though it wasn't what I planned.

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Penny black it one of the newcomers on my balcony. It doesn't dominate in any way, but it does contribute to the greenery on the balcony. I think the little flowers look pretty and I wish the plants would produce more of them for me.

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My balcony looks awesome. It has never looked this good and been this cozy be on during the other summers. Almost all flowers have bloomed and I will post pictures on them in individual blog entries for the different flowers.