Specialty Gardening: Balcony Planters, 0 by KatG

KatG wrote:
Hello All! I'm very new here and am so glad to have found such an interesting and informative site!

I have a lot of container plantings around my pool area and just love them! I would really like to add to these and mount some window box/planters on my balcony railing. The problem here is, it's really windy up there and I would need to plant something that didn't require a lot of water and didn't lose a lot of leaves/flowers. (Silk? haha - Just Kidding!)

I've seen these planter boxes they sell with a built in water reservior. Has anybody tried them? Any suggestions on what kind of plants would do well in Zone 9B under these conditions? It's going to get really Hot soon, so these cool-loving annuals I currently have growing, aren't going to like it too much.

I would really appreciate any ideas you might have.

Thank-you