(upbeat music) - With this kind of wind and this kind of sun, this is proof positive that you can garden just about anywhere.

We're 28 floors up overlooking Lake Michigan.

- As a physician I think that being out in nature and getting out, exercising, is very helpful to just boost your energy and to be in nature is helpful because it gives you a connection to the earth.

With having a garden, I like the color.

I like the variation.

Nature is full of so many varieties of everything.

- The best thing is to choose plants that will work in your microclimate.

This is actually south, south off of this way.

East is over that way.

Later on we're going to be looking at a balcony on the other side which is facing west, and that's a whole different microclimate.

So what I was thinking is we just utilize the bench, the storage bench, and maybe put some pads on there and create a seating unit out of that, and then pull her table and chairs out of there.

Set that up.

We'll put a rug down so that we've got a nicer surface to work on and then we'll bring some plants in.

- So we got to buy all this stuff.

Let's go.

- Yeah.

Okay.

(laughs) - That's going to be a cleanable 50 inches.

29, 99 and 23.

- Might be a little bit too big because we don't have a lot of space.

So something like that.

- So this was a really cost efficient way for her to add square footage to her condo unit that she didn't have before, that's very usable.

- The plants just bring warmth and you want to come out here and you're just, you're out in nature.

You wouldn't otherwise be out in the sun.