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    A Suburban Cookie-Cutter Landscape Gets a Modern Makeover

    From New York City to Chicago to Seattle, you’ll find them—urban cookie-cutter neighborhoods. With the boom of affordable housing in the 1950s postwar era, these practical tract-built homes became an…

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    Gardening at Ocean Beach Park in Connecticut

    My name is Diane Smith, and I am a member of the 20-person Beautification Committee in New London, Connecticut. This is a city-appointed board, and we are all volunteers with…

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    Making a Garden That Takes the Drought

    Ellie Gilbert of Plymouth, Massachusetts, sent in these photos earlier in the summer, when she said that they had been having terribly dry weather and the garden was struggling a bit.…