We went through two hanging baskets this summer. We had this pink, perfect mini-petunia in June. Once the petunia baked on our roof garden, we swapped it out for this yellow lantana. By the end of August, the lantana fell to the dry windy heat too. (A neighbor criticized us for growing lantana, a plant [...]
Posts Tagged ‘flowers’
1 Oct
Just Ordered Crocuses for Our Roof Garden
Last night I bought Our Life in Gardens by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd. This morning, after reading this passage from the end of the first chapter, I ordered 75 crocus bulbs:
“Our first autumn in Pepperell, we also planted bulbs, daffodils of course and crocus and tulips and hyacinths. The day in March when the [...]
15 Sep
Best Roof Garden Plant: Portulaca
Our pansies are past their prime and the lantana languished in the heat . . . but our portulaca is still perfect.
Portulaca is low maintenance (no dead-heading required!) fast growing drought-tolerant annual. As fall approaches, the portulaca is still pumping out flowers so we’ve moved this container to a high visibility perch on our roof [...]
29 Jul
Best Roof Garden Plants: Miscanthus sinensis Cabaret
Miscanthus sinensis Cabaret wins the most valuable player award in our Brooklyn roof garden. As first year roof gardeners, we didn’t want to sink a lot of money on trees. We were also worried that trees might be too heavy for the roof or need too much water.So we’re using this grass to play a [...]
26 Jul
Our Favorite Brownstone Stoop Container Garden
We finally snapped a picture of my favorite Brooklyn brownstone stoop gardens this afternoon.
This brownstone planter is simple — just two plants — and elegant. The plants take advantage of their location; passers buy look up into the grass and little blue flowers. If this planting was viewed at ground level, the little flowers might [...]
15 Jul
Roof Garden Plant: Daylilies
We planted a pot of daylilies in our Brooklyn roof garden at the recommendation of the helpful team over at Liberty Sunset Garden Center. In the spring and early summer, the lilies gave us a big punch of green. And the daylily started flowering during the first week in July, just as our Ameria maritima [...]
13 Jul
Brooklyn Apartment Window Box
Happy Monday! We walk past these window boxes every morning on the way to work and wanted to share them this morning.
These Brooklyn window boxes hold piles of petunias, a bleeding heart bush, and some pansies peaking out too. We’re inspired by how big these window boxes are and by how much dimension they have.
These [...]
12 Jul
How Can We Make This Pole Look Better?
Our roof garden sits in the center of our roof. Our chairs stare out directly at this rusty exhaust pole. We hung a lantana there and strung up solar lights, but we want to do more. We need your help . . . what else can we do to make this pipe look better?
We aren’t [...]
