My city high rise gar den
By: Susan Brownmiller
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780813588896
Subjects: Roof gardening; Urban gardening; Anecdotes
Other titles: My city high rise garden; My city highrise garden
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Hello, terrace; title: Wind; title: The birches; title: The chores of March; title: A water feature; title: Bushels of peaches; title: A field of coreopsis; title: Experimental stations; title: Coming up roses; title: Butterflies in the garden; title: Daylily dreams; title: A peony bush; title: Hydrangeas; title: My thirty-year geraniums; title: My iris experience; title: Riotous annuals; title: Boston ivy; title: Honeysuckle is nostalgia; title: Helping a clematis; title: Alas, the roaming cat; title: The mockingbird on the rooftop; title: Fall is for reckoning; title: Epilogue: A woman's way.