BalconyFlowers.com contains growing notes and information sheets on a variety of plants, trees, shrubs and flowers that can be grown in pots and containers. The idea came from the inexhaustable amount of information available on the internet and how great little tips I found around the internet got lost when I tried to look them up again. I thought if I started my own site, I can collect information from around the internet as well as from my own experiences and put it all on one page. It’s mostly for my own reference, but I’m happy to share it.

Balcony Flowers is also a gardening blog, with what I like to call “my gardening adventures”. I’m not known as a greenthumb, so growing anything green that requires sun and water is challenging to say the least. I like to write and I like to document pretty much everything I do, so I figure I might as well let the world know about my gardening successes and, probably more often, my gardening disasters.

A little bit about the author

My name is Sue Zann Toh, the picture you see over there is me. I would class myself as an amateur gardener at best. It all started when I happen to run across a little article on how to grow tomatoes, the article writer claimed it was easy-peasy, so I thought I’d give it a try. In my eagerness, I planted the tomato seeds in late summer so I’ll be lucky if I get any fruit, but still, it has been fun and rather easy growing tomatoes.

From there, I caught the gardening bug, the only problem is that I don’t exactly have a “garden”, I have a balcony instead (actually, I have 2 balconies, but still). So everything I grow must be suitable for containers and pots.

Other than my balcony gardening adventures, I enjoy my [sometimes semi-] regular Ashtanga yoga practice, video games, food [mostly eating, sometimes cooking], gadgets and tech stuff, online art and other internet-ish things.

Thanks for dropping by Balcony Flowers. Sit back, relax, have a laugh at my silly gardening boo-boos and enjoy my gardening photos.

Sue Zann

P.S. Big thanks to Thomas Boley who wrote the fantastic gallery plugin that I use.

P.P.S. Another thanks to Marek Malcherek who wrote the equally brilliant watermark plugin.