Practical Urban Gardening Guidance
Garden Above the City
Practical guidance for people who want to start growing on a balcony or rooftop. Learn what your space can realistically support, what to grow, and how to care for your plants – so you can avoid unnecessary stress, disappointing results, and wasting time or money.
The Garden Above the City Series
Practical Guides for Growing in Small Urban Spaces
Garden Above the City is a growing series of practical gardening guides created for people who want to grow plants on balconies and rooftops. Start with the fundamentals, then learn how to choose plants that suit the conditions and space you actually have.
Start Here
Balcony & Rooftop Gardening for Beginners
A practical introduction to containers, soil, watering, light, wind and the everyday decisions that help a first small-space garden succeed.
What to Grow
Balcony & Rooftop Gardening: What to Grow
Choose vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers according to sun, shade, wind, climate, container size and available space.
Free Balcony Garden Starter Checklist
Start Your Balcony Garden the Right Way
Join the Garden Above the City newsletter and get the free Balcony Garden Starter Checklist, plus practical guidance to help you avoid common mistakes, wasted time and money, and choosing plants that do not suit your space.
Learn how to create a balcony or rooftop garden that is easier to care for and genuinely enjoyable to spend time in.
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Paperback editions of the Garden Above the City series are available through Amazon.
From a real rooftop garden
Built from real experience, not theory.
The ideas in these books come from years of growing vegetables, fruit, herbs and ornamental plants in containers on a rooftop terrace and balcony.
Begin with the space you have
Start Your Garden Above the City
Small space does not have to mean small possibilities.