The Greenest Thumb! Contest: Rusty's Rooftop Pad

Name: Rusty
Location: Park Slope (Gowanus side)
Size: 15x15
Favorite Resource: Tarzian Hardware and the garden shop at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden

Pitch:

"Good morning, here's our rooftop garden on the Gowanus side of Park Slope. I guess the space is about 15 X 15, and planted with (among others) a butterfly bush, tomatoes, clematis, herbs, mesclun, morning glories, elephant's ear, dahlias, marigolds, asters, and a weeping cherry." [more below]

Everything but the cherry was from seed or 6 inch container size. We put up four poles for plants to climb on and to a hang a sun shield and curtains as you can see.

Comments (12)

Wow, really impressive!

posted by Grady on 2006-06-26 12:56:02

It's amazingly lush and green and tropical...but I am missing a little color (other than the small flower bed on the front). Perhaps there are some colorful things that just didn't show up in the pictures? The is so much green, I can imagine that perhaps it drowns out the color?

posted by milu on 2006-06-26 13:02:44

really lovely.

what's the set up for watering? (do you carry--ugh!--the H2O up to the roof or do you have a faucet/hose?)

and, is this the first summer up on the roof? (I ask because I had similarly lush hopes for a rooftop garden that were quickly put to rest by...well...the month of august.)

posted by kwj on 2006-06-26 13:09:16

lovely!

actually, i like the monochromatic green. it's beautiful with the terra cotta and bamboo. it unifies a rather large and potentially unwieldy space. if i had this garden i'd have turned that shaded dining area into a sleeping area and come up here on hot nights to sleep under the stars. ok, the vague approximations of stars as seen through the haze and light pollution of the city...

posted by the opoponax on 2006-06-26 13:18:11

This is a perfect rooftop for a hammock!

posted by milu on 2006-06-26 13:26:25

i am so jealous....

posted by geralyn on 2006-06-26 13:56:39

The staging is wonderful...a lush shelter while allowing great views of the skyline. A great place for July 4th, I'm sure.

posted by klm on 2006-06-26 14:35:24

As of my vote:

38 GOLD
01 SILVER
01 BRONZE

Positive votes seem rather overwhelming.
Great roof garden!

posted by chris (nyc) on 2006-06-26 14:36:31

Very beautiful!
I bet at night the view is just stunning!

posted by VIVI on 2006-06-27 15:05:42

Thanks for the kind words! On the issue of watering, I had up until a few weeks ago been hauling up water in a two-gallon can. (I did this last year as well, and lost a lot of plants in July and August.) I recently bought, however, a rather inexpensive hose with an adapter to connect to our kitchen faucet, which I feed over the side and down through the kitchen window. This seems to work pretty well for days without any rain.

posted by Rusty on 2006-06-27 15:47:56

Love this!

posted by Enrique on 2006-06-28 03:02:44

heady!!!!

posted by woozler on 2006-06-28 15:57:14