Article: Henry Mitchell, This Bud's for You

Henry Mitchell's children are going out into the world. They - all 215 of them - are the slender bright green seedlings of the many-hued bearded irises crowded into the neutral strip between the sidewalk and the curb in front of Henry's American University Park house in Northwest Washington.

Henry and a sizable contingent of neighbors put the irises in two autumns ago, digging out the grass, installing boards to define their 6-by-12 bed, putting down sharp sand and horse-manured soil from the pile behind his garage and mulching the whole thing over with straw. Henry recorded the project in an October 1992 Earthman column, and Susan Davis's illustration showed various neighbors - they ...

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