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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Getting back to the garden … I don’t think it’s overgrown at all. I agree with the earlier poster who called it lush. Just my style — a space of verdant greenery in the middle of Brooklyn. Love it. (And I don’t see anything wrong with mentioning that the apartment that goes along with the garden will soon be for rent. This is a real estate blog, right?)
I haven’t seen a post from Jerri in weeks.
I think this post somebody wrote bears repeating. It says what we’re ALL thinking lately about the little Brownstoner Dave, Jerri & Biff clique:
“Dave, it is clear that most readers are ok with the occasional “ad” when it is relevant to the post. What we are not ok with is having to wade through you, jerri, biff, and at times, nokillisa interrupting real estate discussions with your crass innuendo laden irrelevant posts. What makes it worse is that when anyone responds to this crap you all type, you attack them for not adding to the thread. You are the worst offenders of that ‘crime against blog’. Go get a life or at least a real life friend. Obviously no one in your office will speak with you. Guess why.
For the record, we have obviously put a lot of effort over the years into transforming our garden and I submitted my pictures to Stoner before we decided we will most likely move in August. When I sent Stoner the pictures it purely to show off my garden if that can be somehow be considered a more “scrupulous” motive.
It’s unlikely anyone would be looking to rent in August, but as we are definitely interested in finding someone who will tend after our garden while we’re away, I figured I should mention the fact of its availability in a forum which obviously attracts green thumbs. I now regret doing that because I had been hoping the conversation would be centered on the garden and not the rental.
Finally, I think most people who post on this site have intelligent and helpful things to stay about Brooklyn Real Estate. I only wish the majority would simply ignore the minority when they rant and rave about trivial BS. It gets really tiresome and I think the idiots would go away if they failed to provoke a response.
i think both dave and brooklynnative add a lot of positive comments and feedback in The Forum section to legitimate questions. I think it was a little unscrupulous for brooklynnative to use the garden post as a venue for the apartment posting and dave criticized it and then was jumped all over.
He may be a bit too vociferous but at least he’s signed in and lets you all know when its he who is commenting. how many of the rest of us signed in as guests go on and on with lots of vitriolic garbage?
btw I like the garden a lot and this was my first time on here today!
1:10…you’re right, its a blog, do you understand what that means?. I will not stoop so low as to use mother jokes though.
I have not seen someone so desperate for attention as you, Dave. Especially by anonymous people on a blog.
Were you abandoned by your mother as a child???
Thanks. Truce?
The magnolia is definitely over 20 years old. However, I hear that they grow incredibly fast.