There’s a lot to swoon over at Hotel Delmano in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: the cocktails, the yuppie snacks, and the steampunk smashed with speakeasy style of the place. Me? My favorite part was their window boxes. They serve a drink here called the Granny Polite – white port mixed with fresh lemon and tonic. Pelargonium and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘spillers’
12 May
Creating a Full-Sun Hanging Basket for Our Brooklyn Roof Garden
The hanging basket on our roof garden faces some big challenges. The hanging basket has to be able to withstand strong gusts of wind and direct, drying sunlight for most of the day. Last summer we went through three different hanging baskets. The lantana performed the best, so we knew we’d make lantna the center [...]
25 Jun
A Pink And Green Container Garden
We put together this pink pot from plants on sale at the Greenmarket yesterday. Thriller: Anisodontea Slightly Strawberry Filler: Drought tolerant white verbena Spiller: Pink Frost sweet potato vine The Anisodontea can grow as high as three feet. We’ll see about that. We like how the vine coordinates with the Slightly Strawberry (silly name!) flowers. [...]
17 Jun
Spillers for My Thrillers
I didn’t learn the Thriller, Filler, and Spiller design concept for container gardens until I read about it in Fine Gardening. Of course, I read these instructions *after* we planted our containers. Tonight I’m going to add some jazzy spiller plants to live with our thrillers. I’m adding these white low-growing petunias and some white [...]
