No roof access? No excuses. Why not plant a garden on your stoop … or windowsill … or the tree well in front of your building. Scrounge up some space this summer. But before you get started, check Blackbook for sage urban gardening advice. #10 is the best: Spend the extra couple of bucks on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘flowers’
25 Jun
A Pink And Green Container Garden
We put together this pink pot from plants on sale at the Greenmarket yesterday. Thriller: Anisodontea Slightly Strawberry Filler: Drought tolerant white verbena Spiller: Pink Frost sweet potato vine The Anisodontea can grow as high as three feet. We’ll see about that. We like how the vine coordinates with the Slightly Strawberry (silly name!) flowers. [...]
19 Jun
The Roof Garden at The Caledonia
Last night I went to a part last night for Sferra linens, held on the sun terrace of The Caledonia, a posh new apartment building just off the High Line in West Chelsea. Even through the rain clouds, this Manhattan roof garden is stunning. It looks like the plants were carefully chosen to stand up [...]
17 Jun
Spillers for My Thrillers
I didn’t learn the Thriller, Filler, and Spiller design concept for container gardens until I read about it in Fine Gardening. Of course, I read these instructions *after* we planted our containers. Tonight I’m going to add some jazzy spiller plants to live with our thrillers. I’m adding these white low-growing petunias and some white [...]
29 May
Co-planting Roses with Lavender, Sage, and Thyme
I had a meeting near Union Square this afternoon and stopped at the Greenmarket on my way back to the office. I can’t help myself — I bought more plants for the roof. I bought two “True English” lavender plants plus purple sage, purple basil, German thyme, oregano and a variegated sage from The Blew [...]
28 May
Home Depot: More Pots and Some Yarrow
A gardener friend of ours toured the Presby Memorial Iris Garden in Upper Montclair, NJ and gave us two iris plants. We want to get them set up on the roof before our cat attacks them, so I went to Home Depot last night to buy more pots. We’re not sure if the irises will [...]
27 May
One Plant at a Time
Plant by plant, our garden keeps growing. R* and I picked out this hanging basket at Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket on Saturday. Here’s R* walking it home. We’d planned to hang it on an pipe that punches through the corner of our garden space, but quickly learned it is too windy and hot there. We [...]
