city gardening

Green Acre #51: Scents of a Garden

Who needs Jo Malone when I can delight in the fragrant bouquet of my house.

April 26, 2017

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Green Acre #50: Would You Hire Me . . .

. . . to write about gardening? And other imponderable questions.

April 19, 2017

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Green Acre #49: How Does My Garden Grow?

Ugly, that’s how . . .

April 5, 2017

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Green Acre #48: Fabulous Finds

The best things in life (or in my house) were free for the taking.

March 29, 2017

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Green Acre #47: Exploding Flowers

Those green puff balls from last week? Don’t do it!

March 22, 2017

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Green Acre #46: Bliss in a Bottle

Spring will come. Meanwhile, there’s ingenuity.

March 15, 2017

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Green Acre #45: The Chagall in the Garden

Not your average garden ornament.

March 8, 2017

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Green Acre #44: On the Whole . . .

. . . I’d rather be in Philadelphia, for the Philadelphia Flower Show!

March 1, 2017

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Green Acre #43: Stop! It’s Not Spring!

Only February and everything is coming up: Boom. Boom. Boom.

February 22, 2017

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Green Acre #42: Thoughts on Valentine’s Week

Roses? A mop? This Valentine’s Day, it was all in the thought.

February 15, 2017

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Green Acre #41: Fear of . . . Pruning

To trim or not to trim. Our resident city gardener picks up her shears.

February 8, 2017

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Green Acre: #40: Ice Cubes and Basters

HOW GRAND the sago palm looks, perched on a pedestal on the mahogany chest in the front hall. Just before Christmas, fearing a cold snap that had yet to materialize, My Prince hauled the weighty planter in from the front porch and patiently moved it here and there while I waved him to and fro until it came to rest, reflected in the mahogany-framed mirror that […]

February 1, 2017

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Green Acre #39: Introducing the Calamondin

With a fragrance like this, who needs perfume?

January 25, 2017

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Green Acre #38: The Tropic of Capitol Hill

A solarium takes nothing more than a few windows and a handy Prince.

January 18, 2017

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Green Acre #37: Color Her Cool

The Cavanaugh manse embraces a more soulful variant on the Color of the Year,

January 11, 2017

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Green Acre #36: Winter in the Greenhouse

Lemon aid of the city gardening sort.

January 4, 2017

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Green Acre #35: Into the Weed With Mama

When Stephanie’s mom grew grass on the 18th floor.

December 29, 2016

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Green Acre #34: One Potato, Two Potato

Chanukah, the Festival of . . . Light Latkes.

December 21, 2016

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