RE: Fuchsia Flowers - Balcony Garden Update
Beautiful photos! The blossoms remind me of our Christmas cactus. (There are so many varieties of those.) I like aloe (again, many varieties!) potted and at hand for cuts and burns. Amazon sells a countertop kit for growing kitchen herbs. I have a little pepper plant that produces tiny little red-hot peppers, which didn't impress me for cooking, but it's decorative. I like easy plants. To avoid over-watering, I've heard you should just leave ice cubes on the soil to melt gradually. Any plant is great if you can keep it alive! When I bring potted plants indoors for the winter, seeds that have blown in with the wind sprout alongside the original plant. Violets, clovers, weeds, asters, grass, catnip - ya never know, around here, what might "volunteer" to grow. Good luck! BTW, my niece (in Germany) is in a Facebook group dedicated to potted plants. There are many of these to pick from! E.g. https://www.facebook.com/groups/623997204362467/
I need to publish more balcony garden updates! I got all the herbs and even some vegetables! Might experiment with more as it gets hotter. I have an aloe up in one of the "top" planters, and it's doing well. Can't wait for it to grow pups so I can replant them.
You live in a great climate for that sort of thing. No long, frigid winter of polar vortexes and glaciers and spring floods. :)
It actually gets too hot in the summer. My vegetables will suffer in the 40c heat. Also, what floods? It's a roofed balcony. I need to water even when it rains.