A ‘Radically Different’ Front Garden in Midwood, Brooklyn

Design editor Wendy Goodman takes you inside the city’s most exciting homes and design studios. [Design Hunting]( A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman [A ‘Radically Different’ Front Garden in Midwood, Brooklyn]( From cookie-cutter to an explosion of color: “The neighborhood was pretty blown away.” Photo: Christy Dailey “They all had the same landscaper,” garden designer Christy Dailey says of the street of circa-1900 neo-Tudor houses that included her client’s home in Midwood, Brooklyn. “The mow-and-blow guy, so everybody gets the same lawn, the same hedges, the same seasonals; it’s very cookie-cutter.” But her client wanted something unique. “My first calling in life was interior design, and so there are obviously so many principles that overlap between the two fields, but with plants they are just ever changing. To orchestrate all the colors through all the seasons is not easy,” Dailey says. Gardens take on a life of their own. “Usually in the spring, because you have so much color with all the bulbs, and that’s where the clashing starts and you get, Wow! Look at all this color, and then something pops up and you think, Oh no, those were never supposed to be next to each other.” Photo: Christy Dailey — Wendy Goodman [TAKE A TOUR]( Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [Where Soho Artists Cooked for Each Other Back in the ’70s Gumbo, bone necklaces, and public infidelity that turned into a movie at Food.]( 2. [A Workable Jackson Heights One-Bedroom for $430,000 And a Prospect Heights two-bedroom just five minutes from the park.]( 3. [There’s an Under-$2 Million Breuer House for Sale The owners of the Croton-on-Hudson three-bedroom won’t consider “anyone who’s remotely thinking about tearing it down.”]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved