The Master Gardener’s Balcony

Debbie Brophy

About the garden - Balcony garden

The Master Gardener’s Balcony offers a blueprint for gardeners who have downsized from a home with a large garden to an apartment balcony. It demonstrates how apartment dwellers can create abundant gardens by utilising space efficiently. 

 

By embracing vertical gardening and employing integrated seating and storage, this garden provides room for growing, working, and relaxing, while avoiding over-cluttering floor space. Building upwards with waist-high growing beds, a green wall panel, trellis, and two pergolas, the garden envelopes the balcony space to create a sheltered oasis.  

 

Brimming with softness and movement, the planting scheme includes ferns, grasses, and perennials that provide year-round interest. This clever and efficient design illustrates how you can use widely available materials to create an elevated outdoor space where the plants are the star of the show. 

  

About the Designer

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Designer Debbie Brophy returns to Bloom this year following her success in Super Garden 2025, where she won the opportunity to design her first Show Garden, the silver medal-winning ‘Bee Happy’ Wildlife Garden. 

 

Based in Newbridge, County Kildare, Debbie owns Laurel Hill Gardens, a garden design business named after her own garden where she propagates and grows plants that are adaptable to the Irish climate. Debbie added a retail area to the garden last year and has continued to expand her design business.

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