Sprout Home: Brooklyn

Growing up in northern Connecticut, one of the rituals of my summer vacations was watching my New York-born mom go to the local nursery and try again and again to succeed in growing flowers on our front lawn. Everyone else on the block seemed to have these green lawns and blooming flower bushes. Meanwhile, the color of our yard was usually somewhere between “dirt with a few patches of grass” and “just plain dirt.” I never did figure out what doomed her efforts. Maybe our yard was just really hard to grow things in. Then again, I always figured that people who come from cities aren’t supposed to have green thumbs.

Oh but not you, dear reader. From design*sponge comes word that Sprout Home "” purveyor of fine supplies and accessories for the urban gardener "” has just opened a store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Previously known for its Chicago location, New Yorkers will now be able to take advantage of Sprout’s knowledgeable staff and carefully selected merchandise. You can shop at Sprout online, but this is really the kind of thing you’ll want to see (and smell) for yourself. The Brooklyn store is located at 44 Grand Street (between Kent and Wythe). You’re going to want to go, otherwise when you move to the suburbs, you’ll be just as clueless in the botanical arts as my poor mother. Click here for a slide show of the store.