This is where the light comes from. Up. This, where I am standing, is a garden on a second floor, on the roof to the rooms below. So it is a rooftop garden. This kind of situation is known in the trade as a Shade Pit.
My philosophy is to embrace the shade...we will make it work for us! Woodland serenity now.
It has some akebia doing quite well, but very top-heavy. And will all soon be built and planted from scratch.Below, a few streets away, is one of our gardens on a high corner, with views of the Hudson.
Seen from the edge of this third roof, below, where I hope to see a garden in a month or so...
What an amazing ambition. I hope you'll post photos of the process?
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of this, maybe you came across it as well.
ReplyDeleteI was kind of hoping the post would go - dark spot, buildings all around, mushrooms, bioluminescent cave algae!
ReplyDeleteBut woodland was a close second...
Thank you for embracing the shade! Recently, at a "community" garden here in Philadelphia 10 trees were removed so that all plots would receive "equal sunshine". Oh for a hosta or a fern....
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