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June 06, 2005
Roses
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Roses everywhere you look this week. Of course there are the magnificent displays at the Botanical Gardens and the UN where huge collections of perfect specimens are tastefully displayed, but for us, the best rose are in neighborhoods, and especially in community gardens. We have seen some memorable roses in our travels around the city; a luminous buff colored climber against a slate grey wall at The Backyard Garden in Red Hook, the seventy two rosebushes blazing from the Holy Rosary Community Garden at 117th street and Pleasant Avenue in Manhattan, and the red roses that climb over the iron archway gates of many of the city's community gardens. These last are especially evident in the gardens of the Lower East Side, but you can see them all over in community gardens of a certain vintage.
Posted by gardenguidenyc at June 6, 2005 09:49 PM