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Tag Archives: Nigel Rollings
The Waiting Game
Soon: Backyard Community Garden, Red Hook, Brooklyn SNOW IS STILL BLANKETING THE GROUND — another few inches yesterday — but it’s getting nearer the day we can start gardening in earnest. I intended to do a whole planning thing with … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, HUDSON VALLEY, LONG ISLAND
Tagged A Way to Garden, astilbes, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, daffodils, February, ferns, garden chores, garden design, HUDSON VALLEY, Josephine Nuese, Loomis Creek, March, Margaret Roach, mulch, Nigel Rollings, nursery, Open Days, pruning, seed starting, Sydney Eddison, winter protection, wood ash
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The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn
A FEW YEARS BACK, this 25’x30′ Brooklyn Heights backyard was basically a dog run, with a broken stone patio and a canopy of ailanthus trees. Now, with the help of garden designer Nigel Rollings, who teaches the popular Urban Garden … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN, GARDENS & GARDENING
Tagged abutilon, Algerian ivy, annuals, astilbes, bridesmaid mountain laurel, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Heights, cimicifuga, culinary herbs, deck, drip irrigation, drought-tolerant annuals, ferns, fountain wall, fuchsia, hanging gardens, healing garden, huechera, ipomoea, Japanese maple, Japanese plum yew, liriope, mandevilla, Nigel Rollings, oak leaf hydrangea, water feature
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