Garden of the Day: Praiseworthy in Park Slope
[nggallery id=”21362″ template=galleryview] Today’s submission comes from Park Slope. The garden has been a work-in-progress since 2001. When the current owners bought the house it had a huge pine tree and some grass in a raised square bed with concrete walkways surrounding the raised bed. “It was all very awkward,” writes the owner. The “before”…
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Today’s submission comes from Park Slope. The garden has been a work-in-progress since 2001. When the current owners bought the house it had a huge pine tree and some grass in a raised square bed with concrete walkways surrounding the raised bed. “It was all very awkward,” writes the owner. The “before” photo at the end of the slideshow shows the garden after all the concrete had been removed. The beautiful circular table they purchased four years ended up not fitting through the front door so they ended up having to hoist it over the roof! The chairs were picked up at the Park Slope flea market. Other than that, you can tell that they are big clematis fans. Great job.
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This is a gorgeous garden. It has offered me extreme pleasure and serentity, I live next door and have literally seen this garden grow. I shamelessly reap the benefits of the hours and hours of hard work and dedication that go into this beauty. Weekend after weekend, morning and night the garden is lovingly tended allowing it to reflect the changing seasons. The pictures chosen do not begin to highlight the bounty of vegetables and fragrance of the flowers at mid-summer. If the local wildlife, squirells, robins, cardinals, bluejays and occssional hummingbird could blog, they would sing its praises with gratitude for creating an absolutely enchanting and abundant enviornment. An enviorment, that I truly appreciate because it removes me from the reality of the amount of assholes and jerks, like the ones who post on this blog, and have moved into our neighborhoods. I am also leaving the neighborhood, and glad of it despite the natural beauty I am graced to live amidst in Park Slope.
We’ve gotten a lot of plants over the years at Chelsea Gardens (Manhattan and Red Hook), the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, White Flower Farm (mail order) and the Green Market. I really have no idea how much we put in over the years but every year it’s less and we’re still spending a few hundred come the spring. My wife is the creative one, grew up in England so she has gardening in the blood. I don’t recall the type of moss but I saw a lot of great moss the last time we were in Chlsea Gardens in Red Hook. Cheers.
What a lovely garden! What kind of moss do you have growing? Where did you buy the majority of these plants? Were they seedlings or did you grow from seeds? Tell us about your process and how you made these creative decisions. Also interested in round about estimates of how much setting up this lovely sanctuary cost? Thanks in advance.
What a lovely garden! What kind of moss do you have growing? Where did you buy the majority of these plants? Were they seedlings or did you grow from seeds? Tell us about your process and how you made these creative decisions. Also interested in round about estimates of how much setting up this lovely sanctuary cost? Thanks in advance.
Jesus! Where have I been? No idea such drama was occurring on an innocent garden posting. And looks like I was drug into the dirt too!
Not sure how it is we simply clog all of this up with drivel, but, okay. People are entitled to their opinions. I still think it has to do with signing in or not. We become giant bullseyes with our dark type and odd looking names.
Anyway, was going to say this garden was lovely. Also, thought that Brooklynnative’s use of asking and answering his own postings mid thread was laugh out loud funny.
Dave, Biff, you guys okay? Took a beating here. I don’t get it, I have to say.
Wow, how old are you people? Complete waste of time today. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
Nicest garden since yesterday! 😉
No, really. I know how much work it is to keep a garden like that looking nice. I thought my garden would look overgrown and weedy. Good work.
Dave and Biff HATE nature, and gardens. They are evil.
well that was pleasant.