Submit Your Garden for 'Garden of the Day'

Love this idea, but it's pretty early in the season.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 3:35 PM

I like that the garden does not intrude on the curb cut or parking space.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 3:42 PM

this is a terrific idea.

i'll be submitting mine when it fills in just a little more!

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 3:44 PM

Unfortunately not all of us are fortunate to own our own brownstone (or lovely wood-frame Victorian) in which to plant a garden.

My garden consists of 7 pots and two hanging boxes - would you consider a balcony garden for your feature?

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 3:56 PM

"Love this idea, but it's pretty early in the season."

I disagree. Early in the season starting in April you see tulips then late Spring there are other bulbs blooming, and azaleas. Spring is gorgeous, in a well-planned, well-planted garden. Then in Summer to early Fall there are the hydrangea and roses blooming.

I love a Winter garden too, because that's the real test for garden planning, to see if the garden transforms in a nice way and maintains interest in cold months.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 4:18 PM

the season has started, this is not early at all. Great idea mr b.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 4:30 PM

I love the house above! I'm so jealous!I pass it quite a lot and people that live seem pretty friendly.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 4:30 PM

4:18 sounds like the most pretentios person to walk the earth.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 4:50 PM

Hmm, nobody has ever said that to me but you, 4:50. So maybe it's about you not me? I think so.

I was merely pointing out to that really negative dude it is NOT "too early" in the season when we've had plenty things blooming for an entire month already. Just ask the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens whose cherry trees have been blooming a couple weeks already and have had plenty visitors.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 5:01 PM

Thanks, John Ife! My knight in shining armor.

I have noticed we see so many people who fuss over renovating the interior of a brownstone but then neglect the yard. And perhaps some of them consider gardening as an art "pretentious"? That's odd to me because a garden is something everyone gets to enjoy who can see it from surrounding buildings, not just those who live inside the house. So it's actually generous not pretentious to keep a beautiful garden year round.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 5:11 PM

I hate to point out the obvious, but suggesting that it is indeed early in the season was merely factual, not negative.

According to our climate zone, one should not even be planting annuals here until May 15th. Still a week away.

It's been warmer than usual this year, so many things are weeks ahead of schedule. Even compared with last year.

So yes, it IS early. In the grand scheme of gardening, mine looks much better in another month or two.

And I'm a professional gardener.

And to suggest that unless your garden is a wonder of splendor in mid February, you know nothing, yeah...I'd call that pretty pretentious.

With that being said, one can have a perfectly lovely garden right now and many do. No need to jump down someone's throat by stating the obvious just so you can sound smarter than someone else, 5:01.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 5:26 PM

If you are a "professional" gardener you ought to be up on the fact that the whole season has moved forward. heard of global warming. May 15th is off. I hope by "professional" you don't mean you actually make your income that way.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 5:38 PM

Snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils are already past. What are you talking about 5.26?

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 5:40 PM

Actually global warming has had ZERO impact on the Climate and Hardiness zones. You really shouldn't speak about what you do not know.

In fact, as ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about global warming knows that it is not an incremental increase in warmth in steady pattern at all and in fact one of the interesting things about global warming is that there will be cooler than average years as well. We might be embarking on one soon, in fact. The naysayers will be out in full force saying, global warming? but that's how it goes...

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 5:50 PM

New York City was in 1990 and still is in 2008 in Zone 7.

Has not changed because of global warming.

Yet.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 5:55 PM

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/spectacular-orchids-double-due-to-global-warming-475373.html

heres one article of thousands showing global warming has changed botanical patterns already.

"interesting things about global warming is that there will be cooler than average years as well."

Thats an attribute of the global climate period, nothing to do with global warming. Please get your facts in order.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 5:55 PM

As a longtime queens gardener, I've started planting earlier in the last 5 years.

Don't know about all your Zones and whatnot, just what the soil and sky is telling me.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 6:01 PM

Also annuals are out of fashion. It's all about the perennials with high-end gardens now.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 6:07 PM

You people are pathetic.

ONLY brownstoners could turn a gardening post into a disgusting peacock show of who's smarter than who.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 6:10 PM

6.10 - it all started with the first dingdong post.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 6:50 PM

can I send in a pic of my tiny messy backyard and see if anyone has ideas/suggestions for what i could do with it? i have a couple, but would love to hear what other people have to say.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 8:42 PM

it's too early, 8:42.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 9:03 PM

You're ALL wrong! :p

It's deep into spring in my backyard. Feels cloer to late spring in fact.

Roses about to pop. Hydrangeas getting bushy and buddy, but no flowers. Lillies going nuts but no blooms yet - azaleas already close to fading, tulips and daffs pretty much toasted.

Perhaps I'm just in a micro climate. But the mild to non-existent winter may have more to do with it. hell we have ANNUALS that came back. wtf? and herbs in pots that normally die off in a deep freeze are bushy and crazy. Oh glory be to my backyard geekouts.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 9:56 PM

oh, and hell yes. This Bushwick backyard geek will represent.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 9:59 PM

Holy sh*t! So I wrote that first post and then went straight off to the BBG's members only sale to pick up some plants. I come home and read this idiocy.

Not quite sure how "love this idea" and "pretty early" turned me into a "really negative dude".

5:01 who thinks this and that s/he is being generous to his/her neighbors by gardening year round is definitely pretentious.

My point about it being early simply reflected my thought that using gardens as a 'renovation' blog only for the next few weeks won't produce something much like previous kitchen/bath features. I have photos of my garden in difft stages, but I guess I doubted others would. I thought people showing new gardens (like new kitchens and baths featured before) would need time to show them empty and then with a few months growth.

Guess I was wrong on both counts of it being early and loving this. Now it seems we'll all be treated to the joy of a posting about 5:01s generous and fully blooming gift to his/her neighbors.

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 10:45 PM

i wonder if 5:01 has been laid in this century yet...

anyone...?

anyone...?

Posted by: guest at May 6, 2008 10:50 PM