I really like this New York Times story by Randy Kennedy about growing a fig tree in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I’m itching to add squeeze just one more plant into our garden and I wonder if the Ficus carica ‘Chicago Hardy’ fig tree would be happy on our roof. I hear that figs grow well [...]
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8 Jun
Roof Gardens: “Weird Urban Serenity”
Did you see the editorial about roof gardens in Sunday’s New York Times? There seems to be two kinds of roof gardens: there’s the fancy green roof projects like The Times is endorsing in this editorial; and then there’s the roof gardens like ours where you (safely) put a few pots and a patio table [...]
