Word: gardened
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...gardener of the old school will argue that there are three essential pieces of gardening equipment: expendable shoes, impenetrable gloves and a deep sense of humility at the chance to act as God's hands. Absent from that list: a pair of $585 leather-handled rose shears from Hermes; a $1,995 vip Robotic Solar Mower that cuts the lawn while you watch from a $595 replica of the benches at Giverny; and a Poopet, a lump of cow manure sculpted by the Pennsylvania Amish into "functional fecal friends" that will "nurture and decorate your garden for years to come...
...siecle, something has changed about what this hobby means to the American middle class -- a change that advertisers, publishers, catalog companies and entrepreneurs are scrambling to exploit. The garden is no longer a private refuge: it is a fashion statement. Far from getting back to nature, the competitive gardener defies it, coercing the most inhospitable climates into growing orchids, coaxing water to run uphill, carving animals in topiary, all for slightly more than it costs to put a child through a year at Harvard. "Louis XIV started small and watched Versailles grow," says power gardener Martha Stewart, who over...
...many cases the new "diggerati" do not really want to garden; they just want to have a garden, which means they're more willing to spend money than time outdoors. This represents a departure from the renaissance that the hobby enjoyed in the '80s, when all kinds of people discovered the raw joy of eating tomatoes that they first met as seeds and spending long afternoons primping their hedges. Where once Americans took the products of their gardens to the market, now they are bringing the market to their gardens. In all, Americans spent nearly $26 billion last year alone...
From Fenway Park to the Crooked Stick Golf Club, from The Garden to The Stadium to the St. Paul Civic Center, from Cleveland to East Rutherford to South Williamsport to Orono, sportswriting has taken me places I had only dreamed...
...activist during the 1960s and 1970s, Havelwas a chief signatory and spokesperson for theCharter-77 movement, which attacked the Communistautocratic government. Havel's works--includingThe Garden Party(1963) and TheConspiratorswere banned but had world Wideinfluence...