An Indoor Tree

A blog about container gardening, urban gardening, and gardening in small spaces.

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On a day when spring could not seem further away, my chives decided to poke back up. An lovely, unexpected surprise! (Taken with instagram.)

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This spring, London’s Garden Museum is exhibiting the work of the landscape designer Russell Page.

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A beautiful photo of 190 Bowery taken by Bucky Turko of Animal New York.

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End of Winter Houseplant Checkup - The Sill - New York City Plant Design and Delivery Services for Home and Office

Because most common houseplants are tropical natives, winter can be a stressful season for them - even indoors. They're coping...

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Early Spring

Last week when the spring issue of Garden Design arrived in my mailbox I was ... happy to see it, but feeling a little like a fraud. This blog that I so diligently maintained throughout so much, my move to Chicago, my break-up, my accident, my recovery, and my unexpected return, was now neglected. And my plants ... my perennials are ice skating rinks.  My ficus is thirsty and it's leaves are getting brown spots. The cactus above my fridge is dying, OK, dead. I need to throw it away this weekend. My African violets, or what's left of them, haven't bloomed in years. My tillandsia are crispy and maybe actually decorative, dried tillandsia now. My jade is sagging. And so I didn't open the magazine for the last two days. Instead I just carried to and from work and cycled through the spiraling worries about the gardening that I should be doing and how much it don't seem to match up with what I was actually to be doing when I looked at the cover. But yesterday -- a cold, snowing, slushy, utterly tiresome day, March day -- I did not wanted to get up from my desk at all at lunch and so I started reading, honestly, out of lack of literally any other options. And I got totally and completely distracted by thoughts of spring and by the possibility of new perennials and new plants and the idea that it was time to start over. And I realized that there is nothing to do really, other than let go of what was planned and of what the reasons were and how it didn't work out as and to instead embrace the excitement of plant shopping and what it all can be this summer.

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NYBG's orchid show opened over this past [snowy] weekend. 

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Kontextur's beautiful watering can ... I'm having difficulty not buying their WC line too. 

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Airplant Frame

Airplantman Designs' square Airplant Frame.

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Rebecca Louise Law's Flowers 2015: Outside In

A new installation suspends thousands of flowers in the lobby of Times Square’s Viacom building

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Climbing vines and ivy in Chelsea. (Taken with instagram.)

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White on white at Ballek’s on Saturday.  (Taken with instagram.)

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And of course, the slide show, On The Roof, It's Peaceful As Can Be.

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This week's peonies at the Union Square Greenmarket.  (Taken with instagram.)

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Mandevilla vines beginning to wrap on the ledge railing.  (Taken with instagram.)

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Last weekend, my brother came to visit and be brought my plants back to Brooklyn. For a little while they were all on the floor in my bedroom again, but then, last Monday, I pulled them out of the boxes and replenished soil that had eroded and put my sedum into a bigger pot. And planted my new poppies and my lantana -- one of the few annuals that I can't resist. And so, after two years, and all sort of things I never could have expected, I've got my ledge garden back.

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How To Move Long Distances with Plants

Of course I find this right after I finished moving all of my plants back to Brooklyn.

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Good morning, chives.  (Taken with instagram.)