Gardens

An organic urban one day make over!

I designed this log furniture to give the an organic feel to the modern urban back yard makeover in the heart of Harlem. Cement covering of on the picnic table top does the same.

Dog Park at the Soho Grand Hotel

Bamboo an Rudbeckia

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Small Terrace with small Maples.

Small Terrace, small Maples in small copper containers frame large comfortable teak chairs to make an idyllic garden nook in Midtown Manhattan.

A Bed on the Roof

When you sleep on a rooftop in Brooklyn you feel even closer to the stars.

Loft Living in the Sky

When you live with this spectacular view of the Manhattan...why sleep or eat inside. I designed this rooftop with a bed, jacuzzi, dining table and grill! What more do you need?

Hotel Rooftop Bar

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Meatpacking Sky line skylight

Creating Shade on a Roof

Windy Roof with a View

Elle Decor

Elle Decore featured this beautiful terrace and it fantastic vintage garden furniture. Birch trees, custom mahogany and zinc containers and custom furniture lines the edge of the exquisite garden terrace in Chelsea, NYC.

West Side Rooftop

Best Team wins Best in Show at Seattle Garden Show

My fantastic team builds the best garden at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show.

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Williamsburg Green Roof

William Wegman's Rooftop Garden

I designed William Wegman's rooftop garden as much for the dogs as the family. The containers were made of copper so when the dogs peed on them they turned that beautiful patina blue...and looked even better!

Grass fence

Garden by Rebecca Cole at The James Hotel in New York

Log and Succulent table- at Northwest Flower Show

Grass under the Rooftop Pergola

Green Table

Green grids and Milkweed pod ceramic tiles takes fresh to the table a whole meaning.

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Shooting for a Garden Design feature spread!

Grass on the Roof

Urban Oasis in Hell's Kitchen

The cement pavers and cement sofa make and ideal oasis high above the bustle of Hell's Kitchen on a roof in New York City.

Just before sunset over the Hudson

Restaurant Garden Hotel

Who says a garden needs flowers!

Citron greens, rich browns, rusty metals, cement greys...makes a beautiful garden...sans flowers. Miscanthus grass, birch tress, bamboo...rudbeckia is the only thing that blooms.

Narrow Terrace Living Room

This narrow terrace living room feels anything but cramped when large comfortable furniture is nestled between Maple trees, perennials and blooming annuals. It also looks as good from indoors as out.

Red Maple on a Roof

Garden by Rebecca Cole at The James Hotel in New York

Succulents on the the Roof

Details of our New York Gardens makes this San Francisco Flower and Garden Show feel more like home. Eldorado Stone on the walls with a fire stair helps when watering the green roof is needed.

Judging at the Philadelphia Flower Show

Succulents on the Roof

Meatpacking Rooftop

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A Terrace View from Above

We created a slivered oasis in this deco office building, two blocks form Madison Square Gardens. The teak flooring, the Maple trees and the take furniture become a respite in an overcrowded city...even if we did have to scrunch it all together.

Lysmachia and Heuchera

Garden by Rebecca Cole at The James Hotel in New York

The James Hotel Outdoor Lounge

Green Apples

Cast stone coffee table, Bamboo reeds were used to create the texture in these cement sides for this steel rimmed containers.Planted with sedums and birch trees.

A Sunny View on the Upper West Side

Tile table and Arper Lounge

Green, green garden

James Hotel NYC dinnerparty

Garden by Rebecca Cole at The James Hotel in New York

Neutral Palette on the Roof

Wisteria dripping from the fountain

The wisteria wrapped around the trellis gives the illusion of dripping out of the magnificient wall mounted marble fountain.

Best in Show at San Fransisco Garden Show

Green Art of Succulents

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Garden by Rebecca Cole at The James Hotel in New York

park avenue zinc planters

Bamboo in Hellls kitchen.

This rooftop surrounded by buildings in the middle of Hells Kitchen are highlighted by the bamboo, rudbeckia, clump Birch and Miscanthus Grass.

Designing and Building Custom Pergola

Secret Garden in Williamsburg

This is what I call a Living green roof. It is a roof with green grids, tree, water features AND plenty of furniture so you can LIVE WELL in the green.

Meatpacking roof

Park Ave AFTER

Park Ave AFTER...Two months of planning, three days of install

Gardening around a skylight

A Soho Hotel Bar

Loft Living Outside

Every inch of this garden was designed with function as well as beauty in mind. The banquette hides the irrigation, the bed stores the cushions in winter.

Chelsea Rooftop Garden

Bamboo and Black Eyed Susans

Bamboo and Rudbeckia on a roof planted in simple Resin planters that look like cement to match the cement pavers.

potato vine pergola

Accel

Modern Furniture on a rooftop Garden

Green wall "painting"

Soho Penthouse Garden

West Side High Way

Ivy on the Hotel walls

Garden by Rebecca Cole at The James Hotel in New York

My Own Backyard

Once an alley for the garbage cans, now an urban oasis complete with 19th century swings from a renovated Park in Paris.

Living green roof, water and trees,

Mountains, lakes and streams...urban style. This 'living green roof' has it all, places to stroll, relax by the water fountains and gaze at the streets below.

Judging at the Singapore International Flower and Garden Show

It was such an honor to be invited to Singapore to judge the the International Flower and Garden Show where I got to meet some of the best garden designers in the world. Jim Fogarty, from Australia won a gold Medal.

James Hotel Urban Park

Willow, Red Maples and sweet potato vine makes this urban park outside at the James Hotel in Soho a rare city gem.

Village Green

This was is one of my oldest gardens in the city. I first designed this over 15 years ago and then had the privilege to redo it a few years ago. We kept the wild look in parts of the garden and used a mix of vintage and new modern furniture.