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.
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Posts Tagged ‘vines’
26 Jun
Chris and Diana’s Red Hook Rooftop
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. See [...]
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. We plant white 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.
Photo: Bearsky, [...]
