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I'm abstaining, not only because they were all really good (more than just these three), but also because they were all completely different--they'd all win different categories.

Where's the macintosh planter?? That was the best one!!!

As with the small apartment contest, the submissions have been highly creative and fabulous. I've liked all of them; great to see so many people doing urban gardening.

I agree with Joan. I love the vegetable garden. I'm torn with Margaret's because the wrought iron makes the display (oh so adorable) and Christy's terrace rocks too. I love them all for different reasons. It's hard to choose.

I voted for the eyesore transformer. All of these are WONDERFUL, but if you take away the plants, the other two spots would still be nice. Kathleen's garden was a transformation of a blighted area - it cleaned up an eyesore, created beauty, produce, flowers, and other plant-related benefits, created community, and and created an opportunity for kids and other city-dwellers to be exposed to a nice garden right by their building, instead of a glass-strewn lot. The vote is for "My Favorite" and that's mine.

This is why The Tonys has separate categories for Best Musical and Best Play.

jeez
I was going to vote for Katherine and that Gowanus roof farm!

Guess I'm sitting this one out...although Pixie makes a perfect case for the Unblight of Kathleen . . . even tho it is Out Of Bounds and in a standalone Community Garden category.

Cristy's terrace is lovely and what I'd want to live with, but it's not her work.

(sigh)

It has been an honor to be nominated, my fellow gardeners and I are truly honored and proud. Thanks for all the great comments.
This garden has become a true labor of love.

You are all winners for cultivating living things and working so hard.
Green thumbs up to all!

I think all three examples individually represent all that is good about tilling a small patch of soil...

It can be the simplest of follies, the sole purpose to beautify and tickle, like Margaret's well-chosen, well-placed elegant flowers.

It can be alleviating the squeeze of an urban apartment by adding (or maintaining) a little green "furniture" to an enviable outdoor space, like Cristy.

Or it can be the green and productive center of a community's efforts to find commonality and a really good cucumber in a little patch of earth, like Kathleen and friends.

I say let's give all three of these green-thumbed "Graces" the award.

I'm not in love with the Mac Petunias, but I think they deserve a shot in this vote. I vote to recall this election.

(see above, the poster is the planter afterall)

I think Margaret's First Time is the best because it reminds me of the first time I saw a small solitary flower in the desert. It brightened the entire hillside as Margaret's flowers brighten the facade of the building. Plus, I am her father.

I like the delicate colors of the petunias. Herbs and veggies and wonderful and useful, but for sheer beauty, nothing beats true flowers. Also, petunias are the ver essence of the summer flower on the East Coast. And they twine nicely around the cast iron. I like the v. urban garden in Chelsea, but there could have been a better use of space to incorporate prettiness in the overall plan and the Fort Lee garden should be counted as suburban, as Fort Lee is relatively uncity-like compared to Manhattan or Brooklyn

All three are inspiring but I love Christy's little oasis in the city. Do hawks nest up there?

well, thanks, guido, for offering to vote for my gowanus do-it-yourselfer.

I must say, with only two photos, it's hard to do a garden justice.
a piece of furniture, in two shots, yes. but the garden's alive, and it changes all the time.

the mac planter's foxy and funny, but not fantastic.

I wonder, if I sent in pics of nasturtiums in bloom and my now huge eggplant, would the voting have gone differently?

Reminds me of a garden piazza i used to know in Europe. Enchanting.

Lockhart Steele has met his name-match in Buck Hansom.