Check out this ninth floor 2,500 square foot roof garden escape on Broome St. I toured this garden last July and am so excited to share the photos. Read more the Soho roof garden this city is threatening to pull down on The New York Times. Here’s a slide show of some of my photos:
Posts Tagged ‘roses’
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 [...]
12 Jun
Sun and Roses in this Brooklyn Roof Garden
Jeffreywithtwof captured this packed Brooklyn roof garden. Check it out: windowboxes with hanging planters on top, plus rose bushes plus that sunny umbrella. The summer sun’s calling my name … Also check out our photo of Gardening in the Sky. Image: Flickr from Jefferywithtwof, used with permission
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 [...]
