Alejandro’s Williamsburg roof on Apartment Therapy is beyond inspiring! The garden jumps with green and loads of bright annual flowers. I’m paranoid that my roof garden, despite all the time we put into it, could look just like a bunch of pots on a rooftop. Alejandro’s roof garden seems to have this consistency and lushness. I’d really [...]
Archive for the ‘Summer 2011’ Category
19 Sep
Modern Gray Roof Garden
This garden looks simple, spare, and so relaxing. See how they planted driftwood with succulents? I found this garden on west elms’ new blog . . . for lots more photos head to the homeowner’s blog.
12 Aug
Struggling With Scale and Color in Our Garden
We landed back home last night after a great vacation in Rome, Barcelona and Nice. We snapped some photos from gardens around the Mediterranean that I’ll start sharing soon. But, as soon as I saw Not Neutral’s tall orange lantern on sale for 40% off at Fab.com (you have to register to shop, unfortunately), I wanted to [...]
27 Jul
A Modern Williamsburg Backyard
Head over to New York Magazine to tour a modern Williamsburg, Brooklyn backyard garden.
12 Jul
The Awl digs into Brooklyn gardens
RP and I felt like sentimental saps talking to the awesome if acidic Awl about the community-building power of Brooklyn gardens, but we love the post. Thanks to The Awl for visiting some tiny Brooklyn gardens, including ours! Check out the whole post here. (Photo: The Awl)
12 Jul
Jambox: Music for our roof garden
How did we go two and a half summers with no music up on the roof? Last night we finally started playing around with the Jawbone Jambox that I gave RP for Christmas. We listened to some Buena Vista Social Club, some Ibiza chillout music as the sun set and of course, we totally listened Carol King’s [...]
11 Jul
Remodelista: Roof Garden Round Up
Head over to Remodelista for a treasure chest of roof garden photos, including this photo from Brooklyn’s Brook Landscape.
8 Jul
A Bowlful of Succulents
A guy on the roof next door shouted: “Nice plants. What’s your secret?” “You have to water every day,” RP boomed back. Yes, you totally need to water a roof garden every day in these hottest days. Even when it rains, we try to check and make sure all the pots got wet — remembering [...]
6 Jul
Colorful Modern Garden Trellis from Fab.com
Fab.com, a new design-minded flash sale site, is wowing me with their modern garden items. First I fell for these planters and now this trellis from Terra Trellis. Would you put a sculpture-trellis in your garden? (Isn’t trellis a really strage sounding, ugly looking word. Especially if you say it over and over: trellis, trellis, trellises) Would [...]
5 Jul
What’s The Story, Morning Glory?
It’s time to talk about Garden Lady. She plants ground cover in other people’s tree pits. She pounces off her stoop down the street to rescue mostly dead plants from trash cans. And she loves forwarding deals on bone meal to the block association email list. She wouldn’t give me any of the block association’s [...]
