New York Plantings: Turn that stale terrace into a wonderful oasis.......

New York Plantings: Turn that stale terrace into a wonderful oasis.......:
     
  I love to come into a drab, bare terrace or rooftop and discuss with a potential client how we can make space better. Turn the outdoor space into a terrace garden. A rooftop garden. A garden to me says a lot more than just a place where things grow. In Asian countries, gardens and parks are the same words. As a hardcore garden designer, and avid landscape design enthusiast and now since living in NYC, a "Rooftop Gardener" I have happily paid my dues in the garden both at my own homes on Long Island and in the Poconos.

As a serious mechanic, antique motorcycle restoration nut, race engine builder turned Garden obsessed, reading hundreds of garden books, hanging around the nursery like a barbershop, attending university for horticultural knowledge was just a hobby still.
  I had no intention of turning my hobby and garden obsession into a trade. I didn't need to. I had a great job and a beautiful home with plenty of land to garden practice landscape design and real gardening on with a good budget and plenty of time to do it.

 Now I run a small but growing NYC Garden company. Who comes to NYC to garden? The first thing people say is: How can you garden in Manhattan? Well, you can and you cant. I'll return to all this in a new blog later.
   Back to your terrace or "rooftop garden" Remember its space not just the plants that make it a garden.
How we can add life, greenery year-round, make the place useful and inviting, give a view from inside the home of life even during a dreary winter's day. Other major and minor factors go into designing a terrace or building a rooftop garden. I want to mention that I do both, with help of course. I mean I both design and build rooftop gardens and beautiful terraces.   From black tar roof on up. from the concrete terrace to a really nice place to be. Blogs were once just a way to advertise and achieve backlinks for me but now things have changed. Google wants "Content" I'll give them "Content". Since I truly love gardening and landscape design I consider myself lucky that I can do this every day and be paid for it.

I even ask that people share some of their NYC gardening or rooftop garden experiences. I'm a real landscape man way before rooftop gardens and no I didn't cut grass, ever. Without those roots, sorry, you can't be any kind of professional gardener because growing things in a box on a rooftop garden correctly come from real garden experience and realizing just what makes plants healthy and grow in the first place. The school helps but there's no substitute for a decade of hobbyist and even more than that as a real tradesman.   Becoming a gardener takes work and a lot of time.

You cant skip the work and claim to be a gardener by planting boxwood in a box on a roof and taking a pretty photo for your website. (well maybe in NYC you can). I'll leave it at this and I hope to rouse some friendly dialogue. New York Plantings is a unique company and we have colorful experiences working in Manhattan and surrounding area landscapes and gardens. To make things more interesting we have started a drip irrigation and landscape lighting specialty company a few years ago and even that, as with anything in Manhattan, NY can turn into an adventure of sorts. I had one gentleman send a post saying he was interested in seeing what I had to say. Hopefully, we can find more. If you will let me know by following I promise not to do any advertising but write the real deal. (there will be links though, sorry)
Thanks for your time.          

     "Turn that stale terrace into a wonderful oasis"...Of greenery and life. New York Plantings Garden Designers and Landscape Contractors visit our Rooftop Gardens Webpage