Year: 2022

Location: SoHo, New York

Scope: design, project management, irrigation, planters, planting, maintenance

Hedera helix (English Ivy) and Campsis radicans (Trumpet Vine) grow up, through, and around a unique installation of vertical metal tubes in a terrace-wide planter at the back of the space. In front of the installation, a row of sleek black planters holds shade-loving colorful foliage and flowering perennials, including limey Hakonechloa macra (Japanese Forest Grass) evergreen Polystichum polyblepharum (Tassel Ferns), Aralia cordata ‘Sun King’ (Japanese Spikenard), white-flowering Astilbe and Japanese Anemone, Hostas, and Heucherellas (Coral Bells). 

A pair of mature, evergreen Magnolia grandiflora (Bracken’s Brown) in black cubes frames the generous lounge and dining area, clustered with concrete pots that hold more Hakonechloa macra, Tassel Ferns, Athyrium niponicum (Japanese Painted Ferns), mint, and boxwood underplanted with Lysimachia nummularia (creeping Jenny).

A specimen cut-leaf Japanese maple (Acer palmatum 'Tamukeyama' ), underplanted with Hakonechloa macra, Athyrium niponicum, and Lysimachia nummularia, creates an elegant focal point between the apartment’s two unique, glass extensions. A second, bright green Japanese maple (Acer shirasawanum ‘Autumn Moon’), stands alone but speaks to the two magnolias in a third black cube.