My city highrise garden
Gardening on rooftops, balconies, and terraces is a popular trend. After thirty-five years of experience, Susan Brownmiller writes with honesty and humor about her oasis twenty floors above a Manhattan street. She reports the catastrophes: losing daytime access during building-wide renovations; assaults from a mockingbird during his mating season. And the joys: a peach tree fruited for fifteen years; the windswept birches lasted for twenty-five. Butterflies and bees pay annual visits. She pampe…
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- Full title :My city highrise garden / Susan Brownmiller.
Summary
Gardening on rooftops, balconies, and terraces is a popular trend. After thirty-five years of experience, Susan Brownmiller writes with honesty and humor about her oasis twenty floors above a Manhattan street. She reports the catastrophes: losing daytime access during building-wide renovations; assaults from a mockingbird during his mating season. And the joys: a peach tree fruited for fifteen years; the windswept birches lasted for twenty-five. Butterflies and bees pay annual visits. She pampers a buddleia, a honeysuckle, roses, hydrangeas, and more. Her adventures celebrate the tenacity of nature, inviting readers to marvel at her garden's resilience, and her own.
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- Publication Date:2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Rutgers University Press
- Place of Publication:New Brunswick, NJ
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017
The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne (154 pages) : : illustrations en couleur.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780813588919, 081358891X, 9780813588902, 0813588901, 9780813591179, 0813591171
- oclc:on1052505388
- LC Classification:SB453.2.N7
- Dewey Decimal:635.09173/2097471
Table of Contents
Hello, terrace -- Wind -- The birches -- The chores of March -- A water feature -- Bushels of peaches -- A field of coreopsis -- Experimental stations -- Coming up roses -- Butterflies in the garden -- Daylily dreams -- A peony bush -- Hydrangeas -- My thirty-year geraniums -- My iris experience -- Riotous annuals -- Boston ivy -- Honeysuckle is nostalgia -- Helping a clematis -- Alas, the roaming cat -- The mockingbird on the rooftop -- Fall is for reckoning -- Epilogue: A woman's way.
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