Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012 - (Page 161)

So, in a leap of faith, I’m cultivating an urban garden in containers on the roof of a steel and masonry building. And even if New York City skyscrapers are built on Manhattan bedrock, and even if I’m of the “Alexander Pope School of Landscape Design,” which follows the line that a garden must be sympathetic to the context in which it is located, installing rock formations up here would have been a disingenuous stretch. Surely a no-no. Yet I had the attitude, the altitude, the hard driving winds, and the unforgiving sun. If I wanted to work with the “genius loci” of the site, as the seventeenth-century essayist and designer of gardens advised, I was halfway there already. Collecting old stone troughs or creating new ones from power drilled-out urban cobble stones became an ongoing passion; all I was missing were the plants that thrive in compromising environments and for that I needed more information. The librarian at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society suggested an article in the Rock Garden Quarterly, “A City Terrace Garden,” and to quote the byline, “Lawrence B. Thomas gardens on an eleventh floor terrace in New York City. He is a stalwart of the Manhattan Chapter of NARGS and its Newsletter Editor.“ I read the piece and, right away, opened up a Manhattan phone directory – though any kid born and raised in New York City should Rock Gardening Roots 161

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012

Geoffrey Charlesworth Writing Prize
2011 Photo Contest Winners
2012 Photo Contest Announcement
Seven Unheralded Axioms of Rock Gardening
Rock Gardening from Scratch: Vegetative Propagation - Understanding Cuttings
Newfoundland's Southern Limestone Barrens
William J. Dress, 1918-2011
DNA and the Changing Names of Plants ... and Making Sense of the Dicots
Jennings Prairie
Carl Gehenio, 1922-2011
Rock Gardening Roots
Plants that Dazzled me in 2011
Phipps Conservatory
Rock and Ink Struck into Flowers - A Response
Bulletin Board
2012 - Eastern Study Weekend: October, Pittsburgh - Registration form and details

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