TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brownmiller,Susan
TI  - My city highrise garden /Susan Brownmiller
SN  - 9780813588919
AV  - SB453 .M935 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Urban gardening
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Roof gardening
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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