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"Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one's connection with the earth. City gardens are proliferating at a healthy rate, and plants can be enjoyed on a rooftop, balcony, terrace, or a simple window sill. There are, of course, special difficulties to gardening in cities: special solutions are needed to solve these problems. Urban Gardening was written to address these issues. It will interest first-timers to try it for themselves, too. The book is subtitled ""a Hong Kong gardener's journal"". If you live outside of Hong Kong, do not let that put you off. Urban gardening techniques are the same all over the world. Readers may discover some well-loved plants they were familiar with back home, or wish to grow their own Chinese vegetables. Pak choi, white radish (lo pak), kai lan, and many others can be grown wherever in the world you find yourself-if you know how. This book will help."

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About the Author Arthur van Langenberg, author of Urban Gardening in Hong Kong (1983), has been trying to grow things for as long as he can remember. Many years on, he is still trying though not always succeeding. Born and living in Hong Kong, he now spends nearly all his spare time amongst his plants, six cats, one dog and two friendly scarecrows who help look after them all. The author was the gardening correspondent in the late 1980s for the now defunct Asia Magazine, which was distributed as a weekend supplement to many national newspapers in Asia. He is a surgeon by profession.

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