[mea culpa: the picture above was scanned from one of my garden books, but I cannot remember which one - if anyone recognizes, please let me know!]
This is sort of, but not quite, what I'd like to do at a new project in SoHo...in fact we will be doing it, so now comes the fun part: figuring out how. Ours will be lower, wider and feature the kind of grasses you see all the way below, which are in another SoHo garden I did a couple of years ago...and of course the grass wall will be on a terrace, not the ground.
Once in a while a client comes along who is happy to play the games one dreams up*. And of course these are quite serious games because one can't do a hundred feet of this, five feet wide and high, for pennies. Or even a lot of pennies. And that's just one of five terraces and an indoor moss garden. Very, very exciting.
I don't like edges. This is the roof - an orchard and greenroof meadow will share space up here.
Future orchard.
I am seriously thinking of incorporating graffiti into part of the design - there's a wall begging for it. And no, I'm not kidding. This is a roof over the street. I love graffiti.
Grass and perennial mix for wall.
* Update: This garden never moved beyond paper. The paper phase was very exciting, and then it fizzled.
Very exciting indeed! :-)
ReplyDeletei have to say, your blog is interesting...
ReplyDeletebut the reason for the post is to ask you a question.
if you have the time, please read it.
Do you know of any prepared grass suppliers? Is it possible to purchase grass by the square foot?
Or in a roll of some kind? I am trying maintain grass flooring in an installation/environment, within a commercial type setting, and can find no information pertaining to such endeavors.
have a good day.
If you are in NYC Curtis, try the Flower District on 28th Street/6th Ave, where you could order grass from one of the retail suppliers. Most of the grass is grown on Long Island or in New Jersey, and can be bought wholesale from there, if you have a resale number. DeLalio's is a grower on LI.
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