We’re so excited to see showy annual plants back at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket. These pansies and the smaller-flowered violas were for sale by Phillip’s Farms on Saturday. I see many Brooklyn gardeners growing pansies in this early spring period and then pulling them out by May. We’ll probably put some violas in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘flowers’
29 May
Rosemary, Begonia and Pelargonium Window Boxes at Hotel Delmano
There’s a lot to swoon over at Hotel Delmano in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: the cocktails, the yuppie snacks, and the steampunk smashed with speakeasy style of the place. Me? My favorite part was their window boxes. They serve a drink here called the Granny Polite – white port mixed with fresh lemon and tonic. Pelargonium and [...]
12 May
Creating a Full-Sun Hanging Basket for Our Brooklyn Roof Garden
The hanging basket on our roof garden faces some big challenges. The hanging basket has to be able to withstand strong gusts of wind and direct, drying sunlight for most of the day. Last summer we went through three different hanging baskets. The lantana performed the best, so we knew we’d make lantna the center [...]
15 Apr
Tulips in the Tree Pit, Brooklyn Style
Tree pit gardening is tough on my Brooklyn block. If the dog pee doesn’t get ya, the flower pickers might. Congratulations to this Brooklyn gardener for a beautiful springtime display.
20 Mar
Stoop Sighting: First Flowers on Park Place
Today is the first day of spring! We don’t know the name of this plant (do you?), but we love how this bush brightens this Brooklyn brownstone stoop.
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 [...]
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 [...]
