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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; assa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brownmiller, Susan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban gardening.
Roof gardening.
GARDENING > Regional > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Horticulture.
GARDENING > Vegetables.
GARDENING > Reference.
GARDENING > Essays.
Culture sur toit > New York (État) > New York > Anecdotes.
Jardinage urbain > New York (État) > New York > Anecdotes.
Roof gardening > New York (State) > New York > Anecdotes.
Urban gardening > New York (State) > New York > Anecdotes.
New York (State) > New York.
Anecdotes.
Anecdotes
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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