This rooftop garden, located in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, received a total design makeover, turning it from a barren space into a lush garden oasis. We were awarded a 2019 Gold Award for Specialty Projects from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers for our work on this project. Our re-design included low-maintenance composite decking (rated for fire …
This wrap-around roof garden in the West Village features a 15’x30′ custom-built planter made out of red cedar and filled with a lush mix of evergreens and flowers. Plantings include boxwoods, spiral junipers, alberta spruces, and gold mop cypresses. The challenges we faced in the design of this 6th floor pre-war rooftop garden were weight …
This rooftop garden landscape design NYC is located in Manhattan’s West Village. The garden features custom fencing with built-in lighting, ipe (pronounced e-pay) planter boxes, deck tiles, a shade sail, and black fiberglass planters. Container plantings for this NYC terrace design include bamboo, ornamental grasses, hydrangea trees, purple coneflower, weigela, creeping Jenny, and heathers. Ipe …
It’s amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do for a space! When I first saw this roof deck on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, it had a lot of very weathered looking existing wood with rotting boards in some places. After replacing the rotted boards and giving all of the existing wood a good …
This New York City rooftop garden features a cedar pergola painted black around the frame to give it some interesting contrast to the natural interior boards. This effect makes it appear that the posts are made of metal, when in fact they are actually made of less expensive wood. Pergolas are a great way to create …
This Brooklyn Heights townhouse features a bluestone deck, custom bench with built-in lighting, and ipe planter boxes. This sunny, cheerful roof garden is more exposed to the elements and windier than most ground-level gardens, so we picked a hardy sun-loving mix of junipers, crape myrtles, roses, and flowering perennials that would do well here. When …
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We designed this terrace garden for a well-known Manhattan screenwriter who was interested in creating a lush garden oasis with a minimalist, streamlined approach. This Chelsea, NYC rooftop terrace includes custom planter boxes made of knotty cedar and filled with a mix of bamboo, a white birch tree, junipers, and still winter-dormant hydrangeas. Knotty cedar …
This stunning rooftop oasis in Manhattan’s Flatiron District is anything but flat with its swimming pool, outdoor shower, built-in kitchen and planters, and cobalt blue accent planters. All of this can be yours, too, since this spacious penthouse apartment is currently on the market for $18 million. The plantings include accents of gold, which pair …
This custom-built Brooklyn Heights roof deck features amazing views of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline. We wanted the garden to feel like a lush little sanctuary with lots of warm wood tones, a jacuzzi, privacy screens, and gorgeous ceramic pots. We mixed loose Mexican beach stones in with the decking around the jacuzzi for …
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This Carroll Gardens rooftop looks like home, sweet home to us with its cozy furniture, built-in ipe planters, string lights, and a pergola. The built-in planters contain Steed hollies, maiden grass, and Japanese forest grass. In the pergola area, black fiberglass planters contain Boston ivy to climb up the pergola posts. There is drip irrigation …
