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...Growing up in Douglaston, Queens, I often visited Westbury on Long Island – F Scott Fitzgerald territory – and its extraordinary gardens always impressed me....
...Rose, who joins a long line of memorably vibrant Bainbridge heroines including Queeney Thrale, Myrtle the foundling and Stella Bradshaw, embarks on a journey across America, leaving behind her squalid bedsit...
...Non-natives adapting nicely to New York’s changing weather conditions included camellias, grape-hollies, crape myrtles, Japanese apricot and even a Himalayan fan palm....
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