My City Highrise Garden

By Susan Brownmiller

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813588898
• ISBN13: 9780813588896
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher