ROOFTOP GARDEN · UPPER WEST SIDE · 2025

The Wind Terrace

Design, install & maintenance · Planters, lighting, irrigation · Spent substrate and coffee ground mulch applied spring 2026

Sunny balcony with potted plants and trees on a tiled floor, overlooking a brick building with a sky backdrop.

Sixteen floors above the Hudson, the wind is not a problem to solve. It is the site. We designed with it rather than against it, choosing native grasses that express movement and change through the seasons, and evergreen trees positioned strategically to create privacy without blocking the sky. The result is a genuinely low maintenance garden that earns its beauty from the elements movement.

A GARDEN THROUGH THE YEAR

Rooftop patio with a dining table and chairs, surrounded by potted plants and city skyline view in the background.

SPRING

City rooftop garden with potted plants, grasses, and shrubs against brick buildings under a partly cloudy sky.

SUMMER

Urban rooftop patio with a modern dining table and chairs, potted plants, and city skyscrapers in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

AUTUMN

A rooftop terrace with potted plants and tall ornamental grasses, with city buildings and a blue sky in the background.

WINTER

Before
After

BEFORE AND AFTER

MYCOSCAPING NOTE

In spring 2026 we mulched all beds with spent mushroom substrate and coffee grounds, beginning to build the soil biology from above while inoculation goes in next season. Switchgrass cuttings from this garden are being used for mycomaterials experimentation.

PROJECT DETAILS

Full design, installation, and ongoing maintenance

SCOPE

Switchgrass, Hollywood Juniper, Japanese Maple, Weeping Redbud, Smokebush, Rhododendron, Azalea, Spirea

PLANTING

Inoculation mulch in Spring 2026 Switchgrass cuttings being used for mycomaterials experimentation

MYCOSCAPING

MLJacobson and Sosa Irriscape Corp

COLLABORATORS

Ongoing maintenance

STATUS

Landscape design, installation, and maintenance by Mycoscapes. Furniture selection and layout by MLJacobson, Irrigation install and maintenance by Sosa Irriscape Corp

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