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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…

  • Design

    8 Plants With Long Growing Seasons

    It’s easy to see why spring reigns supreme in the garden. What’s not to love about the saccharine effusion of lilacs (Syringa spp. and cvs., USDA Hardiness Zones 3–8), irises…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    A Mini-Farm in San Francisco

    Faced with unplanned retirement, a gardener transforms a weed-choked backyard into a micro market garden that grows greens by the fistful.

  • Article

    Rooftop Refuge in the Asphalt Jungle

    Container gardening aloft requires vigilant care, but the rewards are ample.

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Fine Gardening – Issue 221
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End-of-Season Regrets | Letter from the Editor
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All Gardens Have Teachable Moments | Letter from the Editor
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Gardening Against All Odds | Letter from the Editor
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