
I do on-site teaching, with lots of ideas, questions and answers thrown around. Being a Garden Coach is a little like my first career as a Psychologist; I start with the personal interview to determine what the client wants and needs. I help the client see old views in new ways.
In looking back over images of some local jobs, I notice two great themes: containers and height.
(above)
all summer and surely
won't offer complete
privacy, but it will make
you feel as if you're in
an enclosed space. Or
achieve height with a
standard, a tree,
grasses, bamboo.
The owners of the two
homes below stood in
doorways, looked out-
ward and asked me
what to do in their
gardens. I encouraged
them to first look
backward to their entry-
ways and select all-year-
round containers with
plants tall and large
enough to stand up to
the solidity of the home.
This terrace gardener fell to the temptation that has also afflicted me from time to time: too many, too small pots. There's a very easy cure. Bigger pots, fewer pots, consolidate, and at the same time make more walking/sitting room on a terrace with limited space.
A condo owner with this fabulous naked space in Chelsea felt some concern about the metal corrugated walls surrounding the stairs, fans, AC. I saw the wall as perfectly capturing the feel of other rooftops, water towers and odd structures. Containerized bamboo photographed on the street just three blocks from the condo looks like one of many possible solutions to soften, but not hide the wall.

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