Pretty enough to eat: Noble's Graceful Garden

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Pretty enough to eat: Noble's Graceful Garden

POSTED: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 3:05 PM

Filed Under: Field Trip

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Chive flowers add color to planters and plates

Crouched like cats on the roof of Noble: An American Cookery (2025 Sansom St.) are three planters visible to upstairs diners through as many pitched skylights. Soon the three beds will be planted by Grace Wicks of Graceful Gardens, who collaborated with Noble's owners Bruno Pouget and Todd Rodgers and chef Brinn Sinnott to create an urban rooftop garden useful to the restaurant's kitchen and bar. "One bed is herbs de Provence -- your fundamental cooking herbs," said Wicks in a telephone interview. "Then the lemon bed, which is all lemon-scented herbs. The last is the edible flower garden, and I'm adding some pots with tomatoes, cucumbers, basil and mint." Wicks was particularly excited for bartender Christian Gaal to incorporate the lemony herbs into his inventive cocktails. Daughter of White Dog CafÃ© founder and pioneering locavore Judy Wicks, Wicks has been gardening all her life. This is her third year running her own business creating gardens in Center City, often including her signature edible, ornamental plants. "I'm a downtown girl," she says cheerfully. Though Wicks says most of her clients are private homeowners, she has designed and installed rooftop gardens for commercial clients like the Four Seasons Philadelphia hotel.

Noble’s rooftop garden is in bloom — time for dinner! :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper

Posted 2010-06-11 13:19:29

[...] a look at the rooftop garden at Noble (2025 Sansom St.), which we first talked about in April — up here they’re growing edible flowers, heirloom tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and close [...]

VIDEO: The rooftop garden at Noble :: Meal Ticket :: Food Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper

Posted 2010-07-28 12:37:40

[...] rooftop garden at Noble (2025 Sansom St.), which was but a glimmer in Grace Wicks‘ eye back in April, is sprouting in full force, so much so that chef Brinn Sinnott has organized a [...]

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