Hello! Deadline is today Monday, June 19!
Name: Amanda and Tony
Location: 34th b/w 9th and 10th Ave
Size: 700 sf (apartment is only 470 sf)
Favorite Resource: Chelsea Garden Center and Kmart
Pitch:
"Before we moved in, this garden had been neglected for quite some time. We love our outdoor area and have spent literally thousands of hours and lots of manual labor working on it over the past 4 summers. We tend to shop at Chelsea Garden Center and Kmart, since both are close by and we don't have a car. We spent many a weekend lugging bags of dirt around the streets of NY and so this year (and in the future), we just rented a car and spent a day at Home Dept, Lowes and Walmart to load up on dirt, bark, cheap flowers, rocks, thing you take for granted anywhere besides NY... " [More below]
As a Manhattan resident as well, I can only try to intimate my outright jealousy! That looks sooo nice. Nice job. You get my vote.
If anyone knows of other 'backyard' like apartments in Manhattan please let me know.
I was jealous just looking at the pictures...then I read "Blueberry and Rasperry bushes" and almost died. Are you in the market for new raspberry-loving friends by any chance?
You all did an awesome job!
Wow... it's wonderful! A labor of love and it shows. Question: Do you plant the hisbiscus every year?
Congratulations on your fabulous garden. It is truly a joy to behold.
I'm so jealous.
Hibiscus is a perennial out here in the west, but I don't know how it survives your NY cold winters.
Absolutely lovely backyard.
I think that cumquot trees are so surreal and wonderful. Those tiny little oranges are so exotic, and the pot you have it in is very nice.
I would be tempted to paint that wrought iron window guard stuff white, I think to make it disappear againstthe other window frame stuff, but green would also be lovely, and kind of trellis-like. It's probably illegal to have vines actually growing on it, but it would probably give you even more of a garden vibe that way. But seriously... the whole place looks very nice, neat, manicured and lovely.
I do not have a green enough thumb to really be jealous, so I'm pretty free to just be happy for you and grateful for your sharing it.
Great job - I'm so glad that you have done something with the garden. Unfortunately, I can't see your garden from my windows in 2C, but am glad I got to see the pics on here. Keep up the work!
Rock on with your hibiscus in NY! Impressive and I think its a fabulous use of cityscape.
Thanks so much for all the compliments. We suffer through the winters in our teensy space for the sole reason of having this extra room in the summer. Carter in 2 c/d, come down and say hi (or we'll tell kenny to let you know when the next bbq is)- we're lk. yes, suprisingly enough hibiscus actually does keep coming back in NY. The reason we bought it was because a woman in walmart told us it would and she was right. The second year we were convinced it was dead, but it just keeps coming back. you've got to love that.