Gardening
When doing a planting plan many garden designers, landscape designers, landscape architects design for the winter landscape first, then orchestrate their plant palette for the remaining three seasons afterwords.
Here are five favorite shrubs for zone 7 New York City gardens. Do you agree? Which shrubs would you add to this list?
Read MoreThe beauty of fall color surpasses all other seasonal highlights. It's a joy to create a colorful nyc garden design among the grey buildings and early winter skies. Here are my five favorite shrubs for fall, whether I've planted them on a roof garden, brownstone yard, residential property or college campus landscape. A late-season garden is best described by a landscape designer friend.. "with all the plants flopping over, somewhat disheveled from their perfect summer form, it's as if we're at a party where everyone stayed a bit too long!"
Read MoreI have marigolds from Kew Gardens, wisteria from Dumbarton Oaks. Two days ago, I was at Wave Hill, in front of a border where I saw a spent flower head that dried up, fallen to the ground with a capsule of seeds. My daughter watched me look left, then right. No one was watching (nor there to ask) so I bent down and nonchalantly picked it up and put it in my pocket.
Years ago I wanted to taste a pawpaw fruit (Assimina triloba). I read it was one of the largest fruit in North America, the fruit was custardy, tasted like a pear/apple/banana, somewhat tropical. Early in the year I noticed a couple of these trees at a public botanical garden and planned to return later in the year after the plant had fruited. I arrived a little later than I had planned and found a couple of these pawpaw fruit had fallen to the ground. At that point I figured (or rationalized) it was either me or the rodents that are eating this. “Survival of the fittest” set in.
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