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...repair shops for TVs, refrigerators and sewing machines -- stepping on our pride, moving from wheedling to arguing and back to wheedling. We spend all our time trying to get something. It's humiliating that we still can't feed ourselves, having to buy bread and butter and meat and fruit and vegetables abroad...
...sand dunes." In the South, where all outdoor watering has been banned, residents are using "gray water" -- what is left after bathing and showering -- to sprinkle plants and flowers. Along the normally wet Columbia River basin in Washington and Oregon, there is not enough water to irrigate all the fruit orchards...
...garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into a hilltop garden of crab-apple trees and white roses, with rows of fruit trees and swaths of delphiniums. "You may plant something you will never see yourself." He marvels at a palm tree he discovered in Florida, which erupts into blossom only once in its lifetime. "A garden gives you a sense of continuity," he concludes. "It gives you another sense of life...
...cultivate her children, she and her husband bought a house in Everett, Wash., on half an acre of mud and blackberries. Her staunchly evergreen neighbors watched in amazement as she planted clover and rye grass, let it grow a foot high, then plowed it under. Raised vegetable beds and fruit trees began to appear. Then local children gathered, holding tricycle races on the sawdust paths. "They all come over to graze," she laughs. "I have to grow twice as many strawberries and raspberries as I need...
Winning fellowships is somewhat like growing fruit. Both require the right material and the right physical conditions to grow. The best environments often prove to be the most fruitful, enhnacing the qualities of the product. And the results vary from year to year...