The Insider Goes Outside: New Gardening Column to Launch on Sunday
Backyard, front yard, terrace, rooftop. Whatever outdoor space a Brooklyn homeowner or renter can rightfully claim is fair game for a garden, and for Brownstoner’s newest column, The Outsider, which will cover garden design and plantings in a variety of neighborhoods, situations, and price ranges. Written by Cara Greenberg, who’s been penning The Insider on…
Backyard, front yard, terrace, rooftop. Whatever outdoor space a Brooklyn homeowner or renter can rightfully claim is fair game for a garden, and for Brownstoner’s newest column, The Outsider, which will cover garden design and plantings in a variety of neighborhoods, situations, and price ranges.
Written by Cara Greenberg, who’s been penning The Insider on Brownstoner for the last several month, The Outsider goes up at 8 a.m. this Sunday, April 22, and will run every Sunday thereafter through gardening season. That should give you enough time to finish your coffee, put on your old jeans and grab your gardening gloves before heading out back, flush with inspiration.
First up: the concrete patio of Tyler Horsley in Williamsburg, above, with an array of containers so profuse they mimic a classic garden border. Check in on Sunday to see more photos of Tyler’s garden in all seasons and find out how he does it.
The Outsider is looking for leads. If you know of a Brooklyn garden worthy of coverage, please email caramia447@gmail.com.
Nice use of a small space … Abundant and
Lush !
Dont be so down on plastic pots. Those ceramic ones are great…until you have to move them (and you will), filled with very heavy moist soil…then they aint so great.
Plastic also doesnt crack when the wet soil freezes in the winter or the wind knocks over your plant (again will happen on most decks and roofs).
there are many that are very nice plastic pots and if you grow your plants right, you wont see much of the pots anyway.
Of course there are some spots that call for something magnificent and then Ceramic may be the only thing that will work; but in most uses, plastic is the way to go
I found some nice, large, ceramic pots at Ikea.
And don’t forget most ceramic pottery is not frost proof so you will have to address that issue in the Fall or have mosaics in the Spring.