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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The magnolia (neighbors, right?) is actually fantastic. How old do you think it is to get that high?
12:28, thank you, thank you, thank you.
1. The purple aliums have been up for at least a week. That’s a great plant. We have white star types that are just now starting to bloom.
2. The stones are just sitting on sand/dirt. You have a good eye, the “ground cover” is actually moss. It’s taken a while for that to take, partly because we didn’t realize at first that we needed to water the stones to keep the moss alive. We also planted sorrel which has reseeded itself and is now growing in various parts on the edges of the flagstones. It seems to really like to find craggy bits in between stone.
3. It’s south facing so we get a lot of light from the table towards our building. The part with the couch under the tree – a magnolia – gets virtually no light. However, you can see that our euonymus bush next to the couch has thrived there.
You hit the nail on the head, 12:33.
And the more he posts, the more we all realize how NOT clever dear old Dave really is.
Which makes him angry and makes him post even more, digging himself further in the hole.
Honestly if I didn’t know better, I’d think by his posts that Dave is a quirky real estate obsessed 18 year-old suffering from severe acne.
“So its OK then to post apartment for rent classifieds in the middle of this site??? Let me see how you all feel about that when they all start popping up all over this site.”
You don’t care about people posting classifieds in the site. In reality, you desperately want, for some strange reason, to prove to a bunch of strangers how clever you THINK you are. It’s really very sad.
This is my favorite garden so far!
So LUSH!!!
I have 3 garden question:
1) are the aliums up now or is that a photo from last year? I see them around the nabe, but mine aren’t opening.
2) are the stones cemented in place or just laid over dirt/gravel? I see some kind of groundcover popping through some breaks, but I always wonder how to get that effect. Those HGTV type shows usually have such stones laid over layers of compacted gravel/sand. Those aren’t the best growing media even for tough steppable plants. Also did you plant that stuff in there or did it volunteer itself.
3)How sunny/shady is this yard? The photos make it look bright, but I always wonder how much sun these dark back yards get. Several of these garden posts have included plantings of sun perrenials that I thought wouldn’t thrive in a brownstone yard.
I’d like to comment that out of Daves approximately 20 posts on this thread, ONE has been related to the garden.
To hell with the garden. Your immature and poorly spelled posts (“hippocrits”) ruined that long ago. Now we’re focusing on how much of an annoying jerk-off you are. Just GO TO LUNCH already!
I dislike Dave more than the What. And I never thought that was possible.