Flower Box Awards: Jacquelyn's Building Brightener

Our 3rd award of 2007!

Reporter: Clarissa M.
Owner: Jacquelyn W.
Location: Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY

In Clarissa's words:

The front of our building is just a concrete with a bunch of garbage bins. Jacquelyn pretties the place up with the flowerboxes, which have a nice mix of annuals and perennials that she is very good about rotating...

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She goes out of her way to get good seedlings and starter plants and is vigilant about weeds and withering leaves and vines so the boxes always look really healthy. Oftentimes I hear people commenting on how nice the flowers are as I'm entering the building. The building is situated on kind of a weird half residential, half commercial street and the well tended boxes go a long way to making the block feel like it's part of a neighborhood.

Dear Clarissa,

We have a little gift in the mail to you and Jacquelyn: a pot from Ecoforms and seed packets from SelectSeeds.com to help make your gardens grow. Enjoy!

Best,
matt at apartmenttherapy dot com

Comments (6)

Congratulations for making a spot of earth prettier.

What are the daisy-like flowers with the purple(?!) centers? Love them...

posted by sark7 on June 1st 2007 at 8:47am
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So cute!

posted by Anne in Chicago on June 1st 2007 at 10:07am
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I think it is Osteopermum (African daisy). It could be a hybrid variety called 'Sky and Ice', but not sure. They are selling these in pots at Union Square now.

posted by mattplantguy on June 1st 2007 at 5:21pm
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Thanks - I'll check it out.

posted by sark7 on June 2nd 2007 at 4:27am
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Sorry, I meant to spell 'Osteospermum'. It originates in South Africa and is also called a Cape Daisy among other names. They love full sun and are not hardy, which is why they are sold as an anuual, but they can be overwintered.

Wikipedia has a nice summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteospermum

Also take a look here:

http://www.osteospermum.com/

Although a commercial site, it has very good information on the history, care and propagation of these plants.

posted by mattplantguy on June 2nd 2007 at 5:06am
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Thanks Matt for answering the question -- you can't see it in the photos that Clarissa submitted, but on the other side of the box there is one that is purple with white in the center. I never remember to remember the name of the plants I buy.

posted by BklynJacquelyn on June 4th 2007 at 4:41am
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