Garden of the Day: PLG Make-Over
[nggallery id=”21210″ template=galleryview] The first submission for Garden of the Day comes straight outta PLG. When the owners bought the house four years ago, the back yard was nothing more than concrete and chain-link fencing. (Check out the last photo in the slideshow for that “before” shot along with a view of the deck mid-construction.)…
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The first submission for Garden of the Day comes straight outta PLG. When the owners bought the house four years ago, the back yard was nothing more than concrete and chain-link fencing. (Check out the last photo in the slideshow for that “before” shot along with a view of the deck mid-construction.) “The rocks for the wall we got from a neighbor renovating their basement,” writes the owner. “The ground in the center has crushed bluestone and the borders have our perennials and some ornamental trees. We are starting some roses and honeysuckle on the arbor.” Sweet!
Submit Your Garden for ‘Garden of the Day’ [Brownstoner]
South Garden…last house in the row….
Tomgee
What is the orientation? Is this a south garden? It appears to be at the end of the block–which one?
I was in China last summer and many of the courtyards of the houses are all paved, and they arrange their large plants and trees in big pots often placed in a symmetrical arrangement, perhaps this could work well here.
Great job!
Long live PLG!
tomgee–
Thanx for the information.
The garden is beautiful. The neighborhood–a wonderfully well kept secret. We love PLG, and especially Lefferts Manor.
5:59:
You are quite wrong. I post as Roberto, and as no one else. I’m still not sure how childish commentary about a neighborhood has anything at all to do with a critique of someone’s garden.
Sorry to post so late…this is my garden. The reason for so much hardscape is a maintenance issue. When you are inside the yard you are surrounded by plants, flowers and greenery. There are some trees (Dogwoods, cedar, lilac and hemlock) and we will be adding magnolia and japanese maple in the fall… As summer progresses everything grows real big with variety and it feels lush. Its also nice to walk and sit about an area where you don’t get mud on your feet. Its much neater this way and the surrounding plants and weeding require enough work. On a side note, we will be expanding our yard this year, as the lot behind the back fence became available to us..there will be less hardscape there.
Honeysuckle is invasive and we are trying to be careful with it. We have roses and clematis that will climb the pergola/arbor actually. It is still an organic work in progress.
We broke up whatever concrete we needed to first (a jackhammer is not always necessary..its about 4 inches thick and a sledge will work), laid down weed blocking matting, then a layer of pea gravel and then the crushed bluestone. Much of this project was DIY, the cost for labor, crushed stone and arbor was about $5000. The deck on the house was an ordeal with 3 contractors and me building it over a couple of years. Expect something like that in the 10K range.
4:39, 5:36, et al,
Nothing wrong, in a moral sense, with stating your opinion, but these gratuitous negative statements offered as comments to an item about a garden, certainly say far more about the commenters than the neighborhood.
i don’t get it. i can’t see any pictures or slideshow. where are the pictures of this garden??
I’d love to see this again when the vines have grown up and over the arbor.
Btw, walking through PLG today with everything in bloom was heavenly. The Manor is so peaceful.
“The reason we have a lot of entitled kids (and adults) running around these days is because people have become completely terrified of speaking the truth or what they believe.
Everything is sugar-coated these days.”
What the hell are you talking about? I think there’s more “acting out” and free speech these days then there has been in my lifetime! I hear things on the streets, in the subway, and in line at the store that I would never have heard 10-15 years ago, from people of all sizes, shapes, ages and races. Hell, look at BROWNSTONER! Do you really believe people who post here are “terrified” of “speaking what they believe”?? Quite the contrary!