PRO TIPS Care With Color When it comes to garden design in small spaces like this Brooklyn backyard, it’s a good idea to come up with a simple color palette of 3-5 colors. When you use those same colors over and over again in the design, the result is a cohesive, high impact, well designed […]
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Tulips are a girl’s best friend. Bulbs require a winter chill period to come up and bloom in the spring. They are absolutely one of our most favorite flowers of the entire year. Click here to see some of our favorite inspiration photos of gardens with tulips in them.
Every day is a riot of colors when you have spring bulbs planted in your garden. Amber’s favorite picks for cut flowers are tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, and lilies. Check out our full selection of recommended bulbs below in our renderings.
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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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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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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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Last week, we discussed the joys and benefits of container gardening. This week, the focus shifts to what herbs to plant to create your own healing garden. This is just a glimpse into the very large field of herbalism. I focused on herbs and flowers that do reliably well here in New York, but there
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Nestled between skyscrapers, city gardens are like little hidden jewels, seen only by the birds and airplanes that fly overhead. Nothing brings peace to people’s lives more like a city garden, which offers an escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. They are also some of the most challenging spaces to design, due
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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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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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