Sidewalk Greenspace on New York's Upper West Side
Last month, I lashed some five-foot-tall fiberglass rods to the top of the fence… and within hours, the tips of the morning glory vines had found them and started circling their way closer to the sun. Now that a few weeks have passed, the rods are completely hidden behind a wall of vines speckled with small purple flowers.
These asters have been plain janes all season long — but now that the weather is cooling off, and everything else is in retreat, they have come out to shine.
Cosmos atop the garden fence.
This morning glory flower is doing exactly what it intended — luring a bee to climb in and crawl all the way to the bottom to collect a treat while getting totally covered with pollen.
Our sidewalk garden is in a wild mid-season flush of greenery.
These cosmos flowers stand tall by the staircase to building 217.
The maroon cockscomb (celosias) looked good this spring but then faded, and I had no idea they would come back later in the season.
A wild tangle of morning glories has overrun the sunflowers and horseweed in this section of the sidewalk container garden.
We’ve been getting a little color in the elevated baskets along the top of the fence that frames our sidewalk garden.
As pretty as this is, note that, I haven’t actually found a polychrome cultivar — this is just three tiny plants side by side, sharing one planter.
