Check out this great question: We’ve been thinking about gardening on the roof for awhile now, but haven’t moved forward – I think because I was thinking “too grand”. Looking at photos on this site, I see it’s as simple as putting some pots on the roof. However, aside from carrying cans of water up [...]
Posts Tagged ‘herbs’
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 [...]
3 May
The Melodrama of the Basil and the Roses
We’ve had our first casualty of the season: the basil I planted on April 17 looks dead, see it in the lower center of this photo. I was eager to get roof-grown basil back in my kitchen, but seems like mid-April was just too early for annual herbs. But then check out our heirloom rosebushes, [...]
27 Jul
Roof Garden Roses: Sale at HeirloomRoses.com
I gave R* two of Heirloom Roses’s tiny plants for his birthday in June. Here’s a shot of the tiny plants, co-planted with lavender, sage, and thyme — right when we potted them and put them up on the roof. In this photo from yesterday, you can see that our own root roses and herbs [...]
10 Jul
Our Roof Garden Rose is Blooming
I gave two heirloom rose bushes to R* for his birthday — Yesterday and Cottage Garden from HeirloomRoses.com. The heirloom roses are small when they arrive. We chose these roses bushes because “own root” plants don’t get transplant shock and are more able to adjust to the rooftop conditions. The roses have only been in [...]
6 Jun
Windowbox Herbs Grow in Brooklyn
It doesn’t take too much space to grow a beautiful herb garden. Check out these pictures Prospectus shared on my neighborhood’s message boards. Tomatoes too!
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
What Herbs Grow Best in a Roof Garden?
We’re mostly growing drought-tolerant plants and grasses in rooftop container garden. I did sneak one spring of thyme into a pot just to see what would happen. So far it is still alive. It seems like Mediterranean herbs could hack the heat and direct sunlight of a roof garden. They could also look beautiful and [...]
