A Small Green Space is a full service Garden Design & Build & Maintenance firm specializing in small urban spaces 

Professional Photography by Megan Maloy Photography.

 

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Design

Our design process begins with us meeting with you and viewing your outdoor space(s). We will discuss your likes and dislikes as well as your practical demands of the space(s) and other topics essential to create your unique, perfect out-door room.

We then follow up with a broad outline of the design concept. Once a design is commissioned, we return to document the space(s). Next, a design will be rendered by hand and a fully conceived Design Plan created and presented.

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Installation

A Small Green Space can install any space that we have designed. From fencing to patios, to decks and pergolas, to plantings and furniture selection, we have the expertise and experience to handle all of your build needs.

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maintenance

We offer various maintenance packages from one-time garden clean-outs, fall cleanups, spring spruce ups to ongoing maintenance services.

Maintenance services include pruning plants, small ornamental trees, and shrubs; fertilizing, irrigating, and mulching beds; mowing, aerating, fertilizing, over-seeding, and mulching of lawns; and raking and sweeping. Our team of professional urban gardeners will leave your space ready for you to enjoy.

Featured Projects

An overlooked city garden finally gets some love. 

 

This award winning project belongs to a family who had spent a couple of years planning for and executing an interior gut renovation that included a size-able new extension. We wanted their new outdoor “living room” to not only reflect their beautiful contemporary interior but to also be a space that would grow with their family.

This was a big project that included: digging out and reconfiguring the lowest level space, drainage, new fencing, bluestone patio, artificial lawn, perennial planting beds, automatic irrigation, custom built in benches, and low voltage lighting. The end result is an outdoor room that the entire family enjoys spending time in. 

 

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 An English Garden in The City

Our clients have lived in their Jersey City home for many years and are very capable gardeners. But in their senior years they find they have less time and energy to dedicate to the garden. This brownstone garden was once full shade but the removal of a neighboring tree allowed for more sun. Therefore new plants and new placements for existing plants were needed. As our clients do not have young children nor pets their main request was to create a beautiful, seasonly evolving vista to view from their back kitchen and dining room windows.

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An historic city home perched on the side of The Palisades

 

This award winning project previously featured a generously sized front garden bed that was devoid of plants. As the property is perched on top of the Palisades Cliffs, the sunken backyard consisted of a concrete slab that slopes down dramatically towards the cliff.

In the front of the house, we focused on creating a low maintenance colorful, perennial garden. As this city home sits directly above The Lincoln Tunnel (to NYC), we required pollution and street-salt tolerant plantings. At the back of the home, we created an outdoor ‘living room’ that accommodates our client’s outdoor living dreams.

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A chic city courtyard showcases an accent green wall.

 

This award winning space is a small, private, condo garden in Jersey City. It is a private slice of garden within a larger communal space. The design was to create a contemporary space that could be used for a variety of different activities: child's play; adult lounge; fire-pit area; dining; "lush garden"; and private relaxation. The design challenge was to create all of this within 350 square feet while creating privacy without claustrophobia.

 
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