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- My City Highrise Garden
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
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.
Enhanced by over thirty color photographs, this passionate account of green life in a gritty, urban environment will appeal to readers and gardeners wherever they dwell.
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.
Enhanced by over thirty color photographs, this passionate account of green life in a gritty, urban environment will appeal to readers and gardeners wherever they dwell.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. ii-iv
- Hello, Terrace
- pp. 1-6
- The Birches
- pp. 13-18
- The Chores of March
- pp. 19-26
- A Water Feature
- pp. 27-34
- Bushels of Peaches
- pp. 35-40
- A Field of Coreopsis
- pp. 41-46
- Experimental Stations
- pp. 47-56
- Coming Up Roses
- pp. 57-68
- Butterflies in the Garden
- pp. 69-78
- Daylily Dreams
- pp. 79-84
- A Peony Bush
- pp. 85-88
- Hydrangeas
- pp. 89-96
- My Thirty-Year Geraniums
- pp. 97-100
- My Iris Experience
- pp. 101-106
- Riotous Annuals
- pp. 107-116
- Boston Ivy
- pp. 117-120
- Honeysuckle Is Nostalgia
- pp. 121-126
- Helping a Clematis
- pp. 127-130
- Alas, the Roaming Cat
- pp. 131-134
- The Mockingbird on the Rooftop
- pp. 135-138
- Fall Is for Reckoning
- pp. 139-144
- Epilogue: A Woman’s Way
- pp. 145-154
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 155-156
- About the Author
- pp. 157-158
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813588919
Related ISBN(s)
9780813588896, 9780813588902, 9780813591179
MARC Record
OCLC
987792594
Pages
166
Launched on MUSE
2017-05-26
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017