The challenge of this Brooklyn brownstone was to give each of the house’s many separate garden spaces their own unique character while still maintaining a common thread. The roof features an outdoor dining area with kitchen and barbecue, with a nearly 360-degree view of Carroll Gardens. Behind the dining table is a beautiful green wall of Clematis cleverly trained to fill a negative wall space.
Seen throughout all seasons, we designed the bedroom terrace to have strong visual interest all year round. Evergreen shrubs and low evergreen grasses, accented by winter-blooming Hellebores, transform into a colorful palette of pink flowering Rhododendrons, red-foliaged Japanese Maple and PIeris in the spring, then finally the Anemones and Toad Lilies flower in the fall.