Love these brownstone steps. Doesn’t using real terra cotta pots and saucers make all the difference here? Gardening snobs might shudder to see simple annuals repeated like this, but I dig it. Why doesn’t every brownstone in Brooklyn invest $100 and two hours to have something this great, eh?
Posts Tagged ‘stoop garden’
14 Mar
Do You Plant Pansies In Your Roof Garden?
We’re so excited to see showy annual plants back at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket. These pansies and the smaller-flowered violas were for sale by Phillip’s Farms on Saturday. I see many Brooklyn gardeners growing pansies in this early spring period and then pulling them out by May. We’ll probably put some violas in the [...]
16 May
Modern Brooklyn Stoop Container Garden
Cool stoop top container garden, right? The container and the contemporary topiary bush are a great pair — and very different from what shows up on most Brooklyn stoops.
20 Mar
Stoop Sighting: First Flowers on Park Place
Today is the first day of spring! We don’t know the name of this plant (do you?), but we love how this bush brightens this Brooklyn brownstone stoop.
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 [...]
26 Jul
Our Favorite Brownstone Stoop Container Garden
We finally snapped a picture of my favorite Brooklyn brownstone stoop gardens this afternoon. This brownstone planter is simple — just two plants — and elegant. The plants take advantage of their location; passers buy look up into the grass and little blue flowers. If this planting was viewed at ground level, the little flowers [...]
