There were amazing sempervivums and sedums at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden plant sale. I decided I could create one a succulent dish gardens inspired by a Deborah Lee Baldwin’s new book: Succulent Container Gardens. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any of the other items I needed when I bought the plants. It took me two weeks [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sedum’
30 Mar
How To Make a Green Wall Using Succulents
We’re considering adding a green wall to the blank backwall of our roof garden. We found these step-by-step succulent wall instructions over at Sunset Magazine’s excellent gardening section. The article also links to the amazing Succulent Gardens. What an inspiring store! Now the trick will be to translate all of this sunny California gardening advice [...]
7 Aug
Sunflowers Shine on a Brooklyn Stoop Garden
Sunflowers don’t immediately strike me as city flowers. Don’t they seem like they’d be happier out in a field somewhere? And yet, check out this Brooklyn brownstone stoop garden. These sunflowers look amazing there — a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n roll with some bohemian thrown in for good measure. The yellow [...]
11 Jun
Rain, Rain, Go Away!
How long has it been raining for now? A week? A month? Looks like more rain is coming our way this weekend and into next week. Enough already. I’m not sure how much more of it our fledgling plants can take. While the herbs and the beach grass don’t seen to mind the stormy weather, [...]
9 Jun
Woolly Pocket: A mini-meadow for your roof garden
This San Francisco roof garden was built with the Woolly Meadow. We haven’t tested Woolly Pockets (or even seen one of these in person yet), but they seem to fill a great roof gardening niche: they’re pretty affordable ($247, hey… one plastic pot at Home Depot is twenty bucks!), lined to protect the roof, and [...]
4 Jun
Our Latest Container Garden Try
So far the green and yellow sedum has been our best plant, so we’re adding another one here. The contrast between the greeny-purple of the sedum and the purply-green of the tall Red Star makes this our most coordinated pot yet. There’s room for another plant in this post. Any suggestions? We apartment people don’t [...]
27 May
A Butterfly in Our Sedum
Our small roof garden experiment is only three weeks old, but somehow a butterfly has already found us. I’d read that a certain type of sedum is the host plant for the San Bruno elfin butterfly, but I didn’t expect any butterflies to stop by our rooftop. Maybe they were already in the neighboorhood taking [...]
