Top 8 Creepers For Your Balcony In India In 2022

Your balcony can be a beautiful ornamental corner and an excellent springboard from everyday hustle to relax your mind off.

Here are the top 8 creepers that can help you decorate your balcony in India:

1. Tarlmounia 

It is a curious member of the sunflower family that finds it difficult to climb without support. So, fragile stems climb up and then fall down beautifully over a wall or railing. The tender stems all fall down a beautiful curtain. Hence, they are also known as Curtain Creepers.

2. Garlic Vine

It is a creeper that can grow in any kind of soil in full or partial shade conditions. It grows on well-drained soils and requires watering regularly. It gives you beautiful ornamental flowering vines with opposite leaves that can make your balcony look more soothing and peaceful.

3. Allamanda 

It is an evergreen creeping shrub. It is perennial in nature. It needs a lot of sunlight to thrive well and loves well-draining soil. It should be grown in a warm spot in your balcony and should be given special care in winters. They climb a few meters on a support and then come down giving a beautiful decorative texture to your garden.

4. Elephant Creeper

It is not an ordinary creeper, it is a medicinal plant that is used to treat chronic ulcers, gonorrhea, strangury, and gleet. Growing this plant in your balcony will give your balcony a beautiful purple floral texture. It normally blooms in spring and summer with well-established vines.

5. Madhumalti Dwarf

Also known as Chinese honeysuckle or Rangoon creeper is a vine with red flowers. The creeper survives best in well-draining soils with good sunlight. It is a perennial creeper that does not need any maintenance.

6. Money plant

It is a common well-known plant that acts as a climber and creeper in every garden lover's collection. It is one garden species that no gardener can get enough of. It can be easily grown as a creeper in your balcony with adequate watering and fertilizer and will spread on your ground giving it a new green carpet.

7. Ivy

Also known as Hedera, is an evergreen ground creeper that takes around 3 months to spread on your balcony fences in full sun to full shade. It is an evergreen plant and does not require much care.  It grows best in rich and moist soil.

8. Thunbergia 

It is a  vigorous, perennial species flowering plant growing 2-8 cm tall. It grows best in rich, moist soil in full sun. It may tolerate partial shade but that can affect its flowering. It varioes in different colours from yellow, white, blue, purple, pink.