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Studio Humelim is a native garden design studio based in Brooklyn, NY.

04/28/2026

The nursery has started to take shape, with a selection of native perennials and grasses that are well suited to our local conditions. I’ve been updating the shop as plants become ready, and will continue to add to it as the season moves along.

➡️You can browse what’s currently available at our online nursery using the link in my bio.
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1. Woodland Stonecrop—Sedum ternatum | Semi-evergreen groundcover for dry to medium shade—white, foamy flowers bloom over a long period in spring.

2. Robin’s Plaintain—Erigeron puchellus ‘Lynnhaven Carpet’ | Also semi-evergreen, with cheerful, white-to-lavender daisy like flowers in spring.

3. Calico Beardtongue—Penstemon calycosus | An exceptionally good plant for urban conditions, as it can tolerate near full shade to sun.

4. Harebells—Campanula rotundifolia | Hairbells appear delicate, with thin, strappy foliage and blue, bell shaped blooms in summer, but they are tough as nails and thrive in hot, dry conditions.

5. Vervain—Verbena Homestead Purple | This verbena produces almost neon purple blooms all summer and thrives in hot and dry conditions.

6. Ohio Spiderwort—Tradescantia ohiensis | Another charmer who thrives in the variable light conditions that many urban gardens face. Ohio spiderwort is a vigorous grower for full sun to part shade gardens.

04/17/2026

🌱 Plant of the Week: Virginia bluebells–Mertensia virginica

Though they don’t have as large a presence in the nursery trade as daffodils or other bulbs, we have our own fabulous native ephemerals! One of my favorites is the Virginia bluebell. While you’re checking out the cherry blossoms at , be sure to go to the southeast corner of the cherry esplanade to see a particularly gorgeous patch of Virginia bluebells (not to be confused with the Spanish bluebells, who are still a few weeks away from blooming).

Virginia bluebells’s flower buds start out pink, then turn a lovely, crystal blue as the flowers mature. Being ephemerals, they emerge and bloom very early, stick around to photosynthesize for a few weeks, then go dormant by the time spring is over.

For this reason, bluebells play nicely with plants that are slow to emerge. I often interplant them with ferns (see photo 3), who need a little extra time to wake up in the spring and can leave the woodland garden with early season bare patches.

➡️ The online store is open, and we have Virginia bluebells in stock! Tap the link in our bio to shop!

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04/15/2026

Our friends at Patchen Square Community Garden are hosting regular art in the garden events! Check their profile for more details

04/06/2026

These are shots from last season’s nursery, something to look forward to as things begin to take shape again.

At the start of the season, the nursery is still mostly gray. Bare soil, muted tones, and small flashes of green just beginning to push through.

Over time, it fills in. Leaves expand, grasses rise, and what begins as a few scattered seedlings becomes something fuller and more abundant.

🌱 Browse what’s growing now on the Studio Humelim online shop, which is updated as plants are ready for your outdoor spaces.

04/04/2026

Went on a walk, my favorite little guys 😍

It’s spring ephemerals season! If you’re out in the woods on the east coast in the next weeks, keep an eye out for bloodroot (pictured here), claytonia, dog tooth violet and bluebells.

04/02/2026

🌱Plant of the Week: Geranium maculatum ‘Espresso’

Espresso is a bronze-leaved cultivar of our native wild geranium. Espresso makes for a great single species groundcover in shady gardens, or she’ll scramble through other perennials in a matrix planting!

Espresso geraniums bloom in spring, and have flowers that range from pale pink to lavender. In the nursery right now, they’re just beginning to emerge a deep maroon. The foliage will take on more green hues as the season progresses, but will maintain its bronzy overtones. She pairs well with other diminutive woodland perennials like dwarf crested iris!

➡️ The Brooklyn nursery is now open! Learn more about this and other native plants hand-picked for the urban environment by tapping the link in bio.

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04/01/2026

It’s beginning to feel like spring again, and the Studio Humelim nursery is now open.

Over the past few seasons, I’ve been expanding this part of the studio, growing and sourcing plants suited to our local environment, with a focus on native species and those that are resilient and easy to live with.

The nursery is based in Brooklyn and is meant to be a practical extension of the work. A place to find plants for small gardens, terraces, and outdoor spaces.

➡️ To browse what’s currently available, follow the link in my bio.

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03/28/2026

Plant of the Week: Sharp lobed hepatica — Hepatica acutiloba

One of our very earliest wildflowers, hepatica is a vital resource for the first pollinators to emerge in spring. The flowers range from clear white to pale purple and pink, and emerge on fuzzy stems before the season’s new foliage. After the flowers fade, the three lobed, speckled foliage remains and looks good well into winter.

There are several gorgeous stands in full bloom on the High Line right now (pictured in slides 1 and 4) and our inventory of hepatica is also just starting to wake up! (pictured in slides 1).

Hepatica likes shady conditions with medium to medium-dry soils. She definitely doesn’t tolerate crowding, so give her a little breathing room. Give her a couple years, and she will spread into a luxurious clump.

🌱 Browse our entire selection of available plants at the Brooklyn nursery: link in bio.

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03/09/2026

Gifts from the winter woods: bright green moss, water flowing under ice, striped wintergreen, saxifrage, white avens. It feels good to hear and feel the world thawing ❄️

03/06/2026

Despite the late season snow we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks in Brooklyn, spring is right around the corner! I can feel it in my bones, and I can see the plants getting ready for warmer weather: the buds on my spicebush are swelling and the maroon new basal leaves on the thimbleweed have begun to emerge from the soil. Blizzards be damned—the plants know change is coming, and they’re getting ready for it.

And so is Studio Humelim! I’m very excited to announce that we will be opening our online store EARLY this year, on March 20th. I’m still finalizing the inventory, but expect lots of hearty native grasses and perennials, as well as a select few houseplants.

Beginning this early in the season means that the plants you’ll be buying will still be dormant. From a plant health perspective, this is ideal: early spring is one of the best times to plant. Planting as soon as the soil is workable in the spring gives new transplants the longest possible period to establish in the cool, damp earth before the scorching season begins. More time to establish means deeper roots, which means greater resilience.

I’ll be releasing more details next week—stay tuned here, or sign up for the Studio Humelim newsletter in the LinkTree.

02/10/2026

Delicate and tenacious: as the snow melts off of my planters, the little green tips of garlic, mountain mint and palm sedge that are poking up through the frozen soil reveal themselves. For me, this is the part of winter that feels like it will never end, and it is such a tremendous relief to walk outside to see the plants quietly still doing their thing, unbothered by the dark and the cold.

Have you started to think about what you will do with your garden this year? Despite the city still being covered in dirty snow, spring is around the corner. Now is the time to get your garden plans organized—let me know if you need help 🌱

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290 8th Avenue
New York, NY
10001

Website

http://www.studiohumelim.com/

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