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 ‘next year’
5 Oct
The Hanging Basket Report: Better Luck Next Year
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: flowers, next year. 3 Comments
10 Aug
Growing Bulbs in Rooftop Containers
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: flowers, next year, roof garden, spring, tulips. 2 Comments
I’m looking for some advice on growing spring bulbs in rooftop containers. Can you help? We want to play some bulbs this fall and let them sleep up on the roof all winter and then bursting with some early color up there. Since our pots are 12-16″, there’s not much soil there to insulate bulbs [...]
21 Jul
Butterfly Stops By Our Lantana
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: butterflies, flowers, next year, our roof garden photos, roof garden. Leave a Comment
My mom visited us this weekend and got the chance to check out our roof garden. Mom noticed this butterfly enjoying our lantana hanging basket and we snapped a quick picture. Early this summer, butterflies enjoyed our sedum. Since then, butterflies have become regulars at our roof garden and we’re hoping to plant more next [...]
29 Jun
Best Roof Garden Plants: Armeria maritima ‘Duesseldorf Pride’
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: flowers, next year. Leave a Comment
We have an Ameria maritima ‘Duesseldorf Pride’ growing in a small container up on our roof garden. It looks like a mound of grass. The green is nice, but quiet. Easy to miss when it isn’t flowering. But . . . look at that same grassy mound a few days … and there’s stems with [...]
16 Jun
Best Roof Garden Plants: Sedum
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: best plant for roof garden, next year, sedum. Leave a Comment
If you’re a first time roof gardener like me, I recommend trying some sedum. Sedum, also called stonecrop and sometimes mis-spelled as “sedom”, is a succulent — a chubby look plant that stores up water and can grow in hot spots with poor soil. You can see my sedum in the front left of this [...]
12 Jun
Wall Gardening: A Small Space Solution
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: containers, next year, small space. Leave a Comment
We’ve got just enough room for people, plants, and patio table in our Brooklyn roof garden, but I’m wondering if we could squeeze in a wall garden? If we could push everything out 10 inches, we could turn the stairwell shed into a wall garden using this stackable wall garden from Lee Valley. Too bad [...]
9 Jun
Evergreen Container Gardening in Brooklyn
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: brooklyn, next year, trees. 1 Comment
Check out this inspiring new Brooklyn brownstone front garden. This planting just went in a few weeks ago and I stop to admire it on my walk to work every morning. It looks to be all bushes and low-maintenance plants in many shades of green. Does anyone know the botanical names for these plants? I [...]
4 Jun
Umbrella Planter Puts a Centerpiece on the Patio Table
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: containers, next year. 3 Comments
The only place in our roof garden that isn’t stuffed with plants is the patio table. That’s the opposite of how we live inside, where we almost always have a plant or flowers on our dining table. Next year, we could add one of these umbrella planters to the center of the table. The more [...]
3 Jun
If You Spend a Lot of Time in Your Roof Garden at Night . . .
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: fine gardening, flowers, next year. 3 Comments
Plant white flowers! Duh, why didn’t I think of that before we bought so many plants. I’m reading Container Gardening 2009 and picking up a lot of advice, but this is my favorite tip so far. “I like to slip in white flowers whenever possible because they are the ones you notice at night,” wrote [...]
