The roof garden at the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, designed and constructed in 1940 by the Garden Club of Cleveland in conjunction with the City’s sesquicentennial celebration, has become an inspiring stimulus to thousands of city gardeners in the area.
The Fine Arts Garden in Wade Park contains a wide collection of shrubs, vines, ground covers, fragrant herbs, and tender plants, besides several 20-foot willows.
Creating A Roof Garden In A Limited Space
All are grown in boxes, tubs, and pots, showing by attractive examples what can be accomplished in creating a garden where space is limited.
Although simple in plan, this roof garden offers much interesting detail through the use of statuary, architectural features, fences, hedges, and garden furniture.
Selected and arranged with tasteful skill, this helps to create a restful atmosphere and a feeling of greater space than exists. Mrs. W. G. Mather and her ingenious committee have opened a new avenue of garden experience in maintaining these delightful outdoor rooms.
Potted Plants
Each potted plant is set into a container large enough to pack an inch of sphagnum moss under it and around it. This practice has been the secret of our success.
Fortunately, we have a collection of decorative flower pots with fluted tops which were imported from Spain.
Of course, they must be individually stored since they cannot be nested, and plants are not easily shifted from one size to another. Nevertheless, they add considerably to the garden’s appearance and serve admirably to hold the sphagnum moss and the pots containing the plants.
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