Our quest for a hanging basket began when we started our roof garden in the spring of 2009. Our first attempt fried before the Fourth of July. We bought three or four more beautiful hanging baskets that summer, but none of them lasted more than a few weeks. Last summer, I was determined to do [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
