30
Sep
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: herbs, no more carrying watering cans up 3 flights, our roof garden photos, roof garden, roses. Leave a Comment
This last cold day of September is feeling like the end of roof garden season to me. So I thought we’d take a look back to where our garden started. This is a photo I took of our roses and herbs that we planted in early in June for R*’s birthday. Back then I worried [...]
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10
Aug
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 over [...]
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29
Jul
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: best plant for roof garden, flowers, grass, our roof garden photos, roof garden. Leave a Comment
Miscanthus sinensis Cabaret wins the most valuable player award in our Brooklyn roof garden. As first year roof gardeners, we didn’t want to sink a lot of money on trees. We were also worried that trees might be too heavy for the roof or need too much water.So we’re using this grass to play a [...]
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27
Jul
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: herbs, our roof garden photos, roof garden, roses. 2 Comments
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 took [...]
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21
Jul
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 year [...]
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11
Jul
Posted by gochrisgo75 in Summer 2009. Tagged: manhattan, roof garden. Leave a Comment
Marie from 66 Square Feet is building a new roof garden. Check out her construction photos on her site. What a project!
Image: Marie from 66 Square Feet (thanks for sharing!)
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