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You can take the girl out of the garden but ...

Posted Sep 18, 2009 by Kim Franke-Folstad

Updated Sep 18, 2009 at 06:16 PM

I was away from my garden for a few days this past week, while I visited New York City for the first time ever.

Well, you can take the girl out of the garden, but you can’t take the gardener out of the girl … or something like that. Even in that very urban setting, I found reminders of my favorite pastime, including this rooftop garden, which was as green and gorgeous as many I see here – with a little bit of color, too.

Those rooftop gardens are rare. But I did find a whole stack of these gardens in a box at a shop in Grand Central Station.

They look like this when you get them going:

Yeah, not so great. But there were some adorable garden tools at the same shop. These trowels:

And this pruner (or “gardening scissors”):

Don’t know that they’d hold up when trimming my bougainvillea …

More tempting were these purses that look like watering cans. (I’m on a watering can kick … I’m thinking about collecting them.)

Somehow, I managed to avoid purchasing any of the above. I saved the green for plants in my own suburban jungle!