We have great sunrise and and daytime views of the Chicago skyline from our rooftop deck. We'll really miss this when we move! We have a great view of the summertime Navy Pier fireworks. Sitting up on the roof deck is the perfect place to watch the Air and Water Show planes as they buzz overhead on their way toward the lakefront.
Our first summer here we still didn't have any "permanent" patio furniture (note the white resin table and chairs). We did get a nice little wooden potting table and a bunch of window box planters to put along the ledge of the kitchen deck. We planted those up with butterfly bush, Joe Pye weed, mums, and some annuals. It wasn't anything too exciting that first summer, but we sure did get a lot of butterflies visiting our little garden!
We are definately going to plant some butterfly bush and Joe Pye weed in our new backyard. It's such a pleasure to sit outside reading or enjoying a cup of coffee in the morning while butterflies dance around your as they make their way from one flowerhead to the next!
Even though we moved in during the middle of the summer we managed to get some cherry tomatoes to grow in one of our deck boxes. Over the years we learned that the tomatoes preferred the northwest wall of our roof deck over the kitchen deck because the roof obviously got more sun exposure. It's a challenge growing tomatoes (or any vegetable) on the roof though - containers dry out a lot faster up there than on the 2nd floor deck because of greater wind and sun exposure.
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