My beautiful Orchid...grown at home
Hello dear community. It is a pleasure for me to introduce myself to you and at the same time to show you the small garden I have on the balcony of my apartment. I was born and raised at home, it is not the same to live at home than in an apartment because it is not so easy to have plants in an apartment, even less in a balcony. At the beginning when we moved my daughter told me "mom, are you really going to take those plants with you?"...and I told her it was obvious hehehehe, I don't leave my plants, I have them since they were babies, that's like if I move and leave them to you hahaha. At first she didn't like it, but later when she saw how they were growing and becoming beautiful she told me "mommy the balcony is beautiful".
Aquí tomándome un cafecito en mi balcón acompañada de mis plantas
It is good to teach children the value of these living beings, because plants are living beings, I learned that since I was a child thanks to my mother who loves nature. The garden of my mother who lives at home is much bigger and is in the ground, I have my plants in pots what we call here in Venezuela "materos", and of course the care is not the same. I do the maintenance of my plants once a month, I prune them, fertilize them, clean the pots and the windows so that my balcony is beautiful.
Millionaire Plant and Log of Happiness
In a post published by related to comments that I found excellent we talked about the many ways to maintain our plants and the preparation of a good natural fertilizer such as what here in Venezuela we call "Bosta de Café", it is the coffee grounds that remains after the coffee is prepared, Here in my country at least some of us who have plants at home do not throw it in the garbage, but we recycle it with black soil, we throw in the vegetables that we leave after preparing food and thus we enhance our own compost, because in my country a bag of compost has a cost of $ 5. I prepare my own compost and have it ready when I go to maintain my garden.
Maintaining my plants
As I told you it is not so easy to have a garden at home than in an apartment, you have to lower the pots, clean them, pour the fertilizer, prune the plants that are too big because if they grow too much my neighbors complain haha. I have a plant that falls in a beautiful cascade that can be seen when we are on the first floor haha; as I am the only neighbor who has plants on the balcony when they ask me where you live I tell them on the floor where the plants are. In short, it is quite a job and commitment to have plants or a garden on a balcony, but I love it, and by the way I benefit from them since I have from ornamental to medicinal plants. Within the medicinal ones I have Vick vaporub, oreganon, lochita, yerba buena and acetaminophen and the ornamental ones I have the trunk of happiness, millionaire, orchid that I love it hehe and lilies of different colors. As you will read I have work to do with my garden.
Parte de mis plantas en el balcón...Orquídea sin florear y Vick vaporub
Yerba Buena
Mis hermosos lirios
For me, the time to do the maintenance to my garden I must be in a good mood and in good spirits, because plants are living beings that perceive everything you feel, I talk to them while I prune them and tell them why I am taking part of it, my children laugh and tell me I'm crazy haha because I talk to the plants, but I know they listen to me and my children I tell them not to touch me if they are in a bad mood or see them hahaha. But I have always thought that plants as living beings have to be taken care of because they can't take care of themselves.
In full maintenance
I hope you liked my presentation to this beautiful and candid community that I love and thus demonstrate that if we like nature and plants we can grow them where we want.
A handmade pot made from recycled material. I had a lot of good yerba mate so I had to plant more.
Greetings and blessings dear family 
The pictures are my property, taken with my J2 Prime sansumg galaxy phone.