OK, I'll say it again: my favourite New York garden. Showing no hint of its summer self. I still haven't met Kirstin, being too shy to say hello the one time I saw her digging. Her boyfriend, more approachable when he was watering the sunflowers last year, told me about the problems with dogs messing the beds up, and I see there are now little fences around the edges.
Compare today's chilly graffiti above with the August-rich sunflowers I sent last summer to the Gowanus Lounge.
The wine bottle terracing has been replaced and cleaned up.
Good curves.
A lot of good dinners...
Can't wait to see it in spring.This is what it looked like in June 2006:
And now...snow. Tonight. Hopefully.
I haven't seen this one, but it looks fab. There's one in Red Hook, on Beard St. between Conover and Van Brundt I always admired. Its kinda wild with a pleasant acceptance of mugwort mixed in with the perennials.
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ReplyDeletethe chief gardener for Bronx Green-up (the community gardens initiative at the Bronx Botanical Garden) once told me that mugwort helps purify the soil. It pulls out heavy metals.
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