Fest your eyes on Esme and David’s amazing Bushwick, Brooklyn roof garden and visit their Flickr page to get the full tour. This is their first year as roof gardeners. They live on the top floor of their building and run a hose up from their kitchen sink to water. They use self-watering containers and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘vines’
4 Jun
Glorious! Growing Morning Glories on a Roof Garden
Check out M & P’s stunning wall of morning glories. Last spring, they built their own trellis and trained the vines to grow up a roof garden wall covered with rust stains. Here’s the same wall earlier in the season: This is a great example of turning a challenge in your city garden space into [...]
1 Jun
Good night, Moon Vine
The vision was a night garden, of sorts, with white flowers on the moon vine and in the hanging basket above. We wanted vines to soften the space. Instead, the moon vine got these spotted leaves and just looked sad. My mom think I over-watered it. I wonder if it was too windy or the [...]
8 May
Roof Garden: Vines By Design
Our big goal for the roof garden this summer is to make it more lush and enclosed feeling. Less pots on a tarmac, more slice of drough-tolerant Eden in Brooklyn — something like that. At the start of the season, we added three small trees for structure. Today’s project is to add some vines, inspired [...]
26 Jun
Chris and Diana’s Red Hook Rooftop
Check out this roof garden in Red Hook, Brooklyn on Apartment Therapy. Diana and Chris built the furniture with palette wood scavenged from the streets of their neighborhood. Image: Apartment Therapy
26 Jun
M and P’s Jersey City Roof Garden with Tomatoes and Koi
Take a look around the Jersey City roof garden M & P share with their dog Caruso. There’s a couple of firsts here: we’ve never seen roof garden tomato plants this huge . . . and we’ve never seen a rooftop water garden before. M’s morning glory vines are climbing a rope trellis he made. [...]
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. [...]
5 Jun
Gardening with the Sky
Isn’t O2B’s Brooklyn roof garden photo stunning? Totally captures the moody city summer sky. As I studied this picture, I realized this photo can teach us a lot about texture and varying materials in roof gardens too: ceramic tile, wooden furniture with canvas pillows, cement pillars. The light fixtures create a sense of a roof [...]
3 Jun
Brooklyn Roof Deck Inspiration: Bearsky
Check out this inspiring picture from fellow Brooklynite Bearsky. The vines add a sense of whimsy and soften the edges with jungle-y style. I’ve gotta find a way to incorporate some vines this summer. The rich deep colors of the foliage are an inspiration too. Better get some coleus quick. Thanks for the inspiration, Bearsky. [...]
