When designing this rooftop garden for a townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, we wanted to maintain the classic style featured throughout the residence. The planters are made of fiberstone, a blend of fiberglass and stone, and are filled with a lush mix of maiden grasses, hydrangea trees, boxwoods, creeping Jenny, caryopteris, and wisteria vines. …
This rooftop garden on Manhattan’s Upper West Side features a fun geometric design of clustered pots layered in front of incredible skyline views. We recommended changing out the existing utilitarian concrete pavers for these lovely light grey porcelain pavers, instead, which come in many appealing finishes and patterns. Our plantings include Hetzi junipers, maiden grass, …
This TriBeCa roof garden design is bursting with color, abundance, textures, and layers! Our design included low-maintenance greenroof trays, a metal pergola, and lush plantings in black fiberglass planters. We also included a brown bamboo fence to help cover a less attractive existing fence. Plantings include white birch trees, blue junipers, variegated euonymus, ornamental grasses, …
Check out the amazing skyline views from this roof deck in Brooklyn heights. We chose hardy, low maintenance plantings that would complement the view, rather than compete with it. Our design included a mix of high contrast black and white planters in a mix of straight lines and round shapes. The plantings can all withstand …
This contemporary rooftop garden in Manhattan’s Battery Park City is big on style and features artificial turf, white fiberglass planters, horizontal wood fencing, a cabana, and shade sail canopies. It also has a spectacular view of the Statue of Liberty and the New York harbor. The outdoor kitchen was custom-built to fit the space and …
We designed this rooftop garden for a yoga studio on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The planters are filled with beautiful, sinuous Japanese maples that were hand-selected for grace and form. A soft green layer of moss tops all of the planters, adding a wonderful finishing texture evocative of a forest floor. The custom-built wood deck, planters, …
Yes, it really is possible to grow birch trees in containers, even on a Brooklyn rooftop! My clients are always amazed to hear how well these trees will do on their rooftops and terraces. Nothing compares to the white bark of Himalayan birch trees, which look beautiful at any time of year. Multi-stem trees tend …
Even a small space can become an inviting oasis with just the right planning and finishing touches. Our redesign of this rooftop terrace on Manhattan’s Upper East Side included brown bamboo roll fencing to cover an existing bland looking frosted glass divider (check out the before photo on our blog). We love the Huron Lounge …
We created the feeling of depth and abundance in this cozy rooftop terrace through the use of layered plantings and staggered heights of plants and planters. The client’s main objectives were to not make the terrace feel overly crowded and to avoid the hodge-podge effect she previously had with too many mismatched containers. We got …
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The owner of this Brooklyn Heights rooftop terrace requested that we make the plantings feel soft, feminine, and lush with a traditional touch. We picked blue ceramic pots and spiral juniper topiaries as a nod to classic, Mediterranean-style gardens. Pink flowering crape myrtle trees bloom prolifically in the summer months. We’ve also incoporated lace cap …
