Year: 2023

Location: Gramercy Park, Manhattan

Scope: Design, project management, custom woodwork, planters, planting

Custom woodwork in garapa – a blonde, tropical hardwood – offers privacy, divides the space into gathering and storage areas, and provides elegant support for (and contrast with!) custom, powder-coated planters. 

Along the parapet, a textured combination of white-flowering perennials, grasses, and vines including euphorbia, echinacea, baptisia, rubus calycinoides, veronica, and dwarf pennisetum, stands out against the backdrop of the city.

Together with the row of parapet planters, a pair of taller planters frame a seating area, where cornus sericea in Arctic Fire Yellow (yellow twig dogwood), white-flowering deutzia, and draping rubus calycinoides (creeping raspberry) offer multi-season interest.

Complementary cylindrical pots anchor corners, frame doorways, and create moments, lifting limey cotinus coggyria, two varieties of euonymus japonicus, and white-flowering buddleia.