Backyard Garden

Tips on How to Prepare Your Container Garden for Spring

With gardening, timing is everything, so start as soon as you can to take advantage of the long growing season ahead. It’s also time to assess the damage from the winter. Spring has sprung, and your garden will show you which plants are ready to come back. Rose bushes and hydrangeas are already starting to

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Contemporary Backyard in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

This contemporary Crown Heights, Brooklyn backyard features horizontal cedar fencing, a playset for the kids, a bluestone patio, Mexican beach stones, custom-built cedar and black metal planter boxes, and contemporary furnishings.   Cedar is an excellent choice for an outdoor wood.  It has a 15-20 year life-expectanacy and can be painted or oiled any color. 

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Brooklyn Backyard with Bluestone Patio

This Brooklyn backyard was made for entertaining with its outdoor kitchen, contemporary dining and seating areas, a fire-pit, bluestone patio, and custom horizontal planter boxes and fencing made of ipe (pronounced e-pay).  The lush plantings include Japanese maples, dogwoods, ornamental grasses, trumpet vines, sweet potato vines, and a lush assortment of flowering perennials and annuals.

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Brooklyn Heights Backyard with Bluestone Patio

This Brooklyn backyard features a bluestone patio, horizontal knotty cedar fencing, a custom L-shaped sectional bench, a built-in jacuzzi, and contemporary plantings.  A built-in jacuzzi is a great alternative to a pre-fab unit.  It looks very high-end, and it doesn’t require craning it over the brownstone to get it into the backyard, which would cost thousands

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Brooklyn Backyard – Bluestone Patio with Beach Stones

This Boerum Hill, Brooklyn backyard features a bluestone patio, knotty cedar fencing, artificial turf, stepping stones, and loose Mexican beach stones.  We love the way the beach stones are so close in color to the large slabs of bluestone, a natural stone ideal for patios.  We applied a light grey semi-transparent stain to the fence

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