Small Space Gardening: 7 Tiny City Landscapes - Gardenista
No outdoor space is too small for a garden. LA restaurateur Joan McNamara lives in a loft with a garage door that opens onto a balcony. Photograph by Laure Joliet. Photograph by Laure Joliet. For more, see Joan McNamara’s Industrical-Chic Loft in LA. Penthouse in Greenwich Village Architect David Mann and partner Fritz Karch live in a penthouse studio on Washington Square in Manhattan. Antwerp-based garden designers Bart Haverkamp and Pieter Croes have their own “tiny oasis” in the middle of the city. For more, see Radical Gardens of Antwerp. Photograph by Bart Kiggen via Coffeeklatch. Photograph by Cambria Grace. Boston-based photographer Cambria Grace and stylist Lauren Wells, partners at Wells and Grace, also teamed up recently to offer an intimate glimpse of Wells’ small-space city garden. Photograph courtesy of Elysian Landscapes. Upper East Side, Manhattan On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the garden’s palette echoes the cityscape, with Plain Air chairs and a custom table by garden designer Judy Kameon. For more, see Spring Comes to Manhattan, Upper East Side Edition. London-based garden writer Isabelle Palmer kits out her tiny balcony with window boxes, and potted topiaries. Tiniest terrace in Brooklyn? Marie Viljoen gardened in 66 square feet before moving to Harlem (and then back to Brooklyn, where she has a 1,000-square-foot backyard). 66 Square Feet in Brooklyn