My City Highrise Garden / / Susan Brownmiller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Brownmiller, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (166 p.) :; 31 color illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- About the author